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Like Dominoes Falling
On this the 18th day of Na/GloPoWriMo, the challenge is to write an elegy in which the sadness is based less on abstraction than concrete verbiage that helps a person feel the depth of sorrow felt. To that degree, I … Continue reading
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First Principles: The Bible Should Be Read and Applied To Our Daily Lives
“The Bible is the best of all books, for it is the word of God and teaches us the way to be happy in this world and in the next. Continue therefore to read it and to regulate your life … Continue reading
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Tagged Best, Bible, Book, First Principles, Happy, John Jay, Life, Next, Precepts, Read, Regulate, Teach, Word of God, World
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An Obsession of Shadow
The challenge for the 13th day of Na/GloPoWriMo is to write something spooky or somewhat creepy. To me, there is maybe nothing more creepy than the shadowed, dark side of human nature. An Obsession of Shadow by Michael Romani Hiding … Continue reading
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Tagged Angel, Anger, Avarice, Beast, Better Living, Blame, Blood, Bury, Compassion, Creepy, Crime, Dark Side, Darkness, Demand, Desire, Detail, Eccentricity, Electricity, Embrace, Endure, Fulcrum, Ghost, Gloom, Hell's Fire, Human Nature, Land, Lick, Life, Lifetime, Lost, Luifer, Lust, Madness, Memory, Men, Mire, Mortals, Na/GloPoWriMo, Name, Nightmare, Obsession, Palm Read, Photograph, Pity, Poem, Poetry, Recall, Reveal, Room, Safe, Sail, Scorpion, Secret, Shadow, Ship, Slave, Sleep, Soul, Spook, Suffrage, Tears, Trail, Trouble, Unforgiving, Villain, Walk, Weep, Wolf, World
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Relative Complicity
Na/GloPoWriMo Day 12 asks that we who take up the challenge of finding something dull that we’re willing to give away. Well, sorry, but I’m twisting this into something that can never be owned, only given and that is so … Continue reading
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Tagged Alone, Attraction, Beautiful, Beauty, Brave, Breathtaking, Clarity, Complicity, Distance, Einstein, Extraordinary, Given, Good, Gravity, Grow, Heart, Hold Onto, Hour, Imposture, Insist, Journey, Love, Me and You, Mean, Mystery, Na/GloPoWriMo, Obscene, One, Our, Phone, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Power, Power of Love, Presistence, Rarity, Realize, Relative, Routine, Scene, Share, Shown, Simplicity, Soul, Speak, Spectacular, Start, Strong, Surrender, Talk, Tender, Together, Unfold, Unknown, Wonderful, World
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Thought For the Day: Fear Is the Worse of All Liars
“Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are your own fears.” – Rudyard Kipling
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Tagged Liar, Rudyard Kipling, Sometime, Thought For the Day, World, Worse, Your Fear
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First Principles: Nothing Is Certain But Death and Taxes
“In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” – Benjamin Franklin (1789)
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Tagged Benjamin Franklin, Certain, Death, First Principles, Taxes, World
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All My Little Fails
Sometimes even I’m amazed at mistakes that I make. Have you ever had moments when you just want to fall on your knees and pray that God doesn’t give up on you cause you’re a step away of giving up … Continue reading
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Tagged Alone, Apology, Believe, Blind, Bluff, Cause, Complexity, Fact, Fail, Fake, Feel, Forget, Forgive, Give Up, God, Good Enough, Heart Break, Knees, Lost Soul, Me, Mistake, Moment, Pain, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pray, Presence, Private Hell, Rainbow, Rush of Pain, Sane, Smile, Social Anxiety, Sorry, Sublime, Understand, Unkind, Unwilling, Word, World, Worth While
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Joy In the Gifts of Hard Times
The challenge for Na/GloPoWriMo Day 7 is to write a poem about gifts and joy. Above this challenge was a bit about how poetry can prove quite the therapeutic tool. I can see this easily from my own life. From this … Continue reading
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Tagged Above, Abundance, Agony, Alive, Believe, Bleak, Celebrate, Circumstance, Clarity, Concieve, Dark, Daughters, Day, Depend, Despair, Devotion, Difficulty, Each Day, Earth, Employ, Faith, Family, Find, Focus, Gift, Gifts, Good, Good Friends, Grasp, Gratitude, Hand, Happenstance, Hard Times, Heaven, Hope, Joy, Key, Little Girls, Love, Moments, Na/GloPoWriMo, Nature, Negate, Out of Control, Passing Moment, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Reason, Rejoice, Salvation, Seasons, Situation, Soul, Spiral, Sublime, Support, Survive, Thankful, Today, World, World Turned Upside Down
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Thought For the Day: Stoop Low To Rise High
“There are no persons capable of stooping so low as those who desire to rise in the world.” – Lady Marguerite Blessington, writer (4 Apr 1789-1849)
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Tagged Capable, Desire, Lady Marguerite Blessington, Low, Person, Rise, Stoop, Thought For the Day, World
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