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Thought For the Day: In A World of Fugitives, the Person Taking the Opposite Direction Will Appear To Run Away

Posted on September 26, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“In a world of fugitives, the person taking the opposite direction will appear to run away.” – T.S. Eliot, poet (26 Sep 1888-1965)

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First Principles: The Bible Contains the Most Profound Philosophy, the Most Perfect Morality, and the Most Refined Policy That Ever Was Conceived Upon Earth. It Is the Most Republican Book In the World

Posted on September 24, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“The Bible contains the most profound Philosophy, the most perfect Morality, and the most refined Policy, that ever was conceived upon Earth. It is the most Republican Book in the World.” – John Adams, in a letter to Benjamin Rush … Continue reading →

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Thought For the Day: God’s Reasons For Communicating With Man Must Be Subsumed Under His Reason For Communicating To Him His Account of His Creation of the World – and Man

Posted on September 20, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“God’s reasons for communicating with man must be subsumed under his reason for communicating to him his account of his creation of the world – and man.” – Claude Levi-Strauss, anthropologist and ethnologist

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Periodic Burn Offs

Posted on September 19, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Periodic Burn Offsby Michael DoyleIt is all about maintaining our true wealthWhen we cooperate with our natural healthKeeping the functions on which we dependIs absolutely necessary, or we will all surely endWith a world less desirable for all to liveAnd … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Benefit, California, Capability, Capable, Compete, Controversy, Cooperate, Depend, Desire, Development, Earth, End, Environment, Every Tool, Fire, Forgive, Function, Future, Good and Wise Government, Good Stewards, Greed, Human, Improvement, Land, Learning, Less, Less Desirable, Listening To Others, Livability, Live, Mesophication, Natural, Natural Health, Natural Spaces, Nature, Necessary, Necessity and Use, Needs, Observation, Out-Of-Control Wildfires, Periodic Burn Offs, Poetry and Poems, Progress, Progressive, Reap, Responsibility, Sustainable, True Wealth, Uncertainty, World | Leave a comment

The Gift of Darkness

Posted on September 5, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

The Gift of Darknessby Michael DoyleLifeGave me the gift of darknessStrifeIn a world filled with harshnessIt was a gift Though it took years to understandThoughts shiftAs you travel the years and the landDarkness Is as important as lightIt takes harshnessTo … Continue reading →

Posted in Photographs & Memories | Tagged Anger, Burn, Candle, Compromise, Define, Defy, Doubt, Experience, Gift of Darkness, Harshness, Hate, Hide, Ignorance, Inside, Justify, Know, Land, Learn, Lesson, Life, Light, Madness, Need, No Place, Poetry and Poems, Promise, Refine, Right, See, Shadow, Share, Shift, Stare, Starkness, Stranger, Strife, Teach, Time, Too Late, Travel, True Sight, Understand, World, Wrong, Years | Leave a comment

Unburdened (A Quest For Inner Peace)

Posted on September 3, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Unburdened (A Quest For Inner Peace)by Michael DoyleUnburdened by what is in the pastSo many things that couldn’t lastThe way of life is to carry onBeyond what we survive and is goneIn all the parts that are rearrangedNot everything in … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Arrival, Back, Bits of Good, Brutal, Candle, Chances, Changed, Circumstances, Compromise, Connection, Cool Breeze, Deepest Level, Dream, Embraced, Faced, Fascination, Forward, Goal, Gone, Imagination, Inner Peace, Inner Smile, Inward, Last, Life, Light, Matter, Message, Mirror, Outward, Overwhelm, Parts, Past, Path, Peace, Peak, Peering Eyes, Pleases, Poetry and Poems, Quest, Realize, Rearanged, Reflection, Release, Seek, Slow, Storm, Strife, Survival, Survive, Thousand Words, Unburdened, Understood, Valley, Way of Life, World, You and I | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: The Library Is An Arena of Possibility, Opening Both A Window Into the Soul and A Door Onto the World

Posted on August 31, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“The library is an arena of possibility, opening both a window into the soul and a door onto the world.” – Rita Dove

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In A Less Than Perfect World

Posted on August 10, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

In A Less Than Perfect Worldby Michael DoyleI look out into my living roomIt gives me hope instead of gloomTo see my daughters study by preferenceAnd not out of some required deferenceMaybe I did one or two things rightTo be … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Accord, Afraid, Better Things, Brave Young Ladies, Brilliance, Bring, Cajole, Confusing, Curled, Daughters, Deference, Destination, Dissipating, Dream, Elegance, Engineering, Express, Father, Feet Planted, Felt, Forward, Gloom, Goad, Gone, Happy Thought, Head, High Road, Hope, Ignore, Joy, Landed There, Less Than Perfect, Life, Living Room, Look, Lost, Love, Mislaid, Parent, Poetry and Poems, Preference, Procrasination, Rarified, Read, Reading, Reference, Reflect, Right, Sight, Sing, Tenacity, Time, Two, Universe, Walk, Well-Spoken, World | Leave a comment

In Beginning To Chill Hostility

Posted on August 4, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

In Beginning To Chill Hostilityby Michael DoyleIn truth, Christ came to save us allBringing us peace, as we might recallChrist has already graced us as He’s doneIn the name of the Father, the Spirit, and the SonIn this world, hanging … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Align, Argument, Attention, Begin, Better Day, Bind, Blowback, Bread, Capture, Case Study, Chill, Christ, Christians, Civility, Confidence, Controversy, Conversation, Corruption, Critical Thinking, Derivations, Echo Chambers, Embrace, Eternal Liberty, Fall Short, Father, Golgotha, Good Repute, Grace, Guided By God, Hands of Providence, Holiness, Hostility, Humility, Impure, Incendiary, Insensibility, Intention, Know, Life's Purposes, Lip Service, Morality, Our Times, Passion, Peace, Poetry and Poems, Prayer, Preach, Pretend, Public Square, Reach, Reasoned Dispute, Rules of Engagement, Seem, Son, Spirit, Spoken, Struggle, Study, Surface, True, Truly Woken, Truth, Understand, Words, World | Leave a comment

Intoxicatingly Lost

Posted on August 2, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Intoxicatingly Lostby Michael DoyleWe paraded all of our songsSinging on the trail to each otherStrumming our tunes to one anotherWondering where we might belongWe were tripping over the costFeeling intoxicatingly lostAs we fished for the starsInventing our stories on our … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 15 Minutes, Bamboo Flute, Believe, Belong, Best Friend, Blue Stone, Bows, Butterflies, Chances, Conspire, Cosmic Dances, Cost, Court, Darkness, Ends, Eventually, Explore, Fast, Fingers, Fire, Float, Focus and Emphasis, Fools, Full Moon, Gilded Screens, Glory, Gothic Cathedrals, Guitars, Gun Slingers, Intoxicatingly Lost, Life, Lived and Loved, Lonely Shadows, Lost Dreams, Metamorphosis, Moment, Moonbow, MTV, Night, Occur, Paraade, Poetry and Poems, Pyrotechnics, Ring, Rock, Seat, Sing, Songs, Sonic, Stars, Stories, Strum, Sun, Tell, Tides of the Moon, Too Soon, Trail, Trip, Troubadours, Tunes, Vampire, Wind, Wonder, World, You and I | Leave a comment