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Thought For the Day: Fight Your Superficiality, Your Shallowness, So As To Try To Come At People Without Unreal Expectations, Without An Overload of Bias or Hope or Arrogance
“You fight your superficiality, your shallowness, so as to try to come at people without unreal expectations, without an overload of bias or hope or arrogance, as untanklike as you can be, sans cannon and machine guns and steel plating … Continue reading
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Tagged American Pastoral, Arrogance, Art, Bias, Books, Fight, Forget, Go Along, Hope, Open Mind, Philip Roth, Poetry, Right or Wrong, Shallowness, Superficiality, The Ride, Thought For the Day, Unreal Expectations, Writing
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Complexity-Simplified
Complexity Simplifiedby Michael DoyleOf all the things I have in life reservedThe right to peacefulness is deservedI have no need for people who like to cause stressAnd this is something I will readily address2024 will be a year of peace … Continue reading
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Thought For the Day: I Want To See How the Story Turns Out
“One day I was speeding along at the typewriter, and my daughter — who was a child at the time — asked me, “Daddy, why are you writing so fast?” And I replied, “Because I want to see how the … Continue reading
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Tagged Child, Daddy, Daughter, Fast, How the Story Turns Out, Louis L'Amour, One Day, Thought For the Day, Time, Typewriter, Want To See, Writing
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Thought For the Day: Debates About Differences of Opinion On How To Interpret Evidence Are Good and Healthy Because These Discussions Further Our Understanding of Complex Issues
“Debates about differences of opinion on how to interpret evidence are good and healthy because these discussions further our understanding of complex issues. If we all agreed that something was true, then there would be no point in conducting research … Continue reading
In the Truth of Poetry
In the Truth of Poetryby Michael DoyleLife, it seems in as far as it is reachableIs filled with those moments that are teachableOne of the most powerful of lessons to learnIs the ability to quick study, determine and discernA poem … Continue reading
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To A Northern Cardinal
It’s almost that time…. April 1st is the first day of NaPoWriMo/GloPoWriMo 2020. As a warm up, the first suggestion was to write a poem about any bird. I thought of an eagle in this time when we all need … Continue reading
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