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First Principles: The Best Means of Forming A…Virtuous, and Happy People Will Be Found In the Right Education of Youth
“The best means of forming a manly, virtuous, and happy people will be found in the right education of youth. Without this foundation, every other means, in my opinion, must fail.” – George Washington (1784) The only thing needed to … Continue reading
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Tagged Fail, First Principles, Forming, Foundation, George Washington, Happy, Mankind, Means, Opinion, People, Right Education, Virtue, Youth
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Love Was There
Love Was Thereby Michael DoyleAlong the country roads of my youthI learned a few jokes and a lot of truthSinging along with the radio showA lot joy there and it continues to flowSo many smiles built on memoryTimes spent with … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
Tagged Art, Childhood, Choice, Country Roads, Coy, Crashing Down, Dad Joke, Daughters, Distractions, Doing My Best, Everything, Family, Fight, Follow Their Hearts, Give, Good Cheer, Grow Up, Hope, Jokes, Joy, Kind, Learn, Live, Love, Love Was There, Love Will Be There, Loving, Memories, Memory, Million Songs, Moment, Music, Patient, Poetry and Poems, Pray, Push Through, Radio Show, Roadside Attractions, Sing, Smiles, Stay, Their Way, Times, Tired, Truth, Voice, Wish, Youth
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A Life Lived Publicly
A Life Lived Publiclyby Michael DoyleWe walk through life brisklyThinking thoughts ironicallyAbout a life lived publiclyWhen it cannot be lived privatelyThere are eyes most everywhereAs the cameras blink and others stareIt only works if we live comfortablyWith the feeling we’re … Continue reading
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Tagged Alright, Asterisk, Authentic Profession, Blend, Breaking Down Walls, Breakthrough, Briskly, Brood, Calls, Cameras, Comfortable, Comically, Concession, Confession, Confrontation, Connects, Deflection, Despite, Done, Echoed Chambers, Everywhere, Eyes, Failed Sentences, Family, Feeling, Forget, Foundation, Group Therapy, Honesty, Hugs, Imperfect, Incomplete, Ironic, Kindness, Laws, Learn, Life, Means, Minds, Moments, Need To Hide, No Time For Regrets, Other Side, Pause, Peace, Perfect Ones, Poetry and Poems, Pray It All Away, Pride, Private, Process, Public, Punchlines, Reflection, Regrets, Routine, Say, Secrets, Session, Shroud, Silent, Sincere, Somewhere, Stare, Still Here, Strife, Surrender, Tears, Tender, Tenderness, The Divine Comedy, The Thinker, Think, Times, Truth, Vulnerable, Wait, Walk, Whispers, Works, Wrongs, Youth
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Parenting As We Go
Parenting As We Goby Michael DoyleHolding on so tightAs life brings dark and lightParenting the children trusted to usAnd doing our best just becauseGod loves us and we should love one anotherAs we are either serving as father or motherIt’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Acknowldge, Adjust, Allow, Approach, As We Go, Aspired, Beacon of Light, Because, Believe, Best, Bound, Bring Harm, Charm, Children, Choose, Commandments, Community, Dark and Light, Deceive, Depart, Doing Right, Encouraging, Express, Faith, False Colors, Family, Father or Mother, Freedom, God, God Loves Us, God's Goodness, God's Path, God-Inspired, Goodness, Grow, Harvest, Heart, Holding On, Homily, Illuminated, Impress, Kingdom, Life, Lines, Live Each Moment, Live Free, Love and Truth, Love One Another, Parent, Parenting, Parenting As We Go, Poetry and Poems, Praised, Pretenses, Profess, Raised, Shining, Symbols, Teaching, Tight, Trusted, Upright, Us, Words Matter, World, Youth
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Layers of Emotion
Layers of Emotionby Michael DoyleOur hearts hold feelings deeper than oceansIt’s up to us to manage our own emotionsThe heart of the matter is that hearts matterYet, we must do this or our lives might shatterFeelings are so very hard … Continue reading
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Tagged Abuse, Acceptance, Action, Admonition, Articulation, Aspire, Collective Scars, Complexity, Compulsive, Deceive, Decide, Desire, Devil, Discipline, Division, Drama, Dysfunction, Emotion, Emotional Atrophy, Emotions, Essence, Exaggeration, Explain, Express, Expression, Falsity, Feeling, Foothold, Gentle, God, Harmony, Healthy, Heart of the Matter, Hid, Humble, Impessive, Insensitivity, Inside, Inspiration, Invitation, Jesus, Know, Layer, Life's Test, Loaded Statements, Love, Manage, Motion, Ocean, Old Selves, Pain, Peace, Poetry and Poems, Problematic, Rebuke, Receive, Remedy, Representation, Repress, Sensuality, Shatter, Spiritual, Strife, Thirst, Truth, Unity, View, Walking In God's Ways, Youth
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On the Altar of My Life
On the Altar of My Lifeby Michael DoyleIn every moment, even or oddYou put me together, Lord GodIn every flaw and every breakYou have eased every single acheYou have shown me the truthLived every moment since my youthEvery shame of … Continue reading
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Tagged Ache, All of My Days, Altar, Altar of My Life, Beauty, Break, Breath, Christ, Creation, Cry, Day, Destination, Die, Enduring Faith, Every Moment, Eyes, Fullness, Glory, Heart, Law, Life, Lifting You Up, Living Altar, Lord God, Magnified, Man, Meaning, Near, Page, Paths, Poetry and Poems, Praise, Sacrifice, Shame, Shaped, Signified, Sing, Story, Strains, Sunrise, Thankful, The Glory, Truth, Your Ways, Youth
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Birds Aren’t Real
Birds Aren’t Realby Michael DoyleSpoken with a sense of zealIs the thought, “Birds Aren’t Real”Youth joins together to upendA disturbing sort of the worse trendIn an age of misinformationGen Z links arms across the nationEngaged in a case of absurdismWith … Continue reading
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Tagged Absurdism, Admit, America, Banality, Birds, Birds Aren't Real, Charm, Collaboration, Conspiracy Theory, Construct, Cosplay, Diet, Drone, Engage, Enthusiasm, Fabricate, Falsity, Fiction, Friction, Frustration, Gateway, Gen Z, Good For the Soul, Growing Up, History, Improvement, Internet Age, Irreverence, Laugh, Line, Lunacy, Mad, Madness, McIndoe, Misniformation, Nation, Opportunity, Parody, Poetry and Poems, Pretend, Process, Rabbit Holes, Rage, Real, Reddit, Remote Control, Sadness, Social Media, Social Mirror, Social Movement, Soul, Talk, Theory, Trend, Upend, Viewpoint, Walk, World, Youth, Zeal
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Thought For the Day: Happy, Happy Christmas, That Can Win Us Back To the Delusions of Childish Days
“Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childish days; that can recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth; that can transport the sailor and the traveller, thousands of miles away, back … Continue reading
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Tagged Away, Charles Dickens, Child, Christmas, Days, Delusions, Fireside, Happy, Miles, Old man, Pleasure, Quiet Home, Recall, Sailor, The Pickwick Papers, Thought For the Day, Transport, Traveller, Win, Youth
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She Says…
She Says…by Michael DoyleAll the ugly truthsThat have tried to push her backHave tripped her up, since her youthUntil grace gave her all she might lackThoughts of how abundance increasesGave her the hope to move on pastIn her story filled … Continue reading
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Tagged Abudance, Admit, Back, Bad Choices, Brave, Broken Pieces, Claim, Confusion, Control, Faith, Glory, God, Gold, Good Man, Grace, Heart, Hell, Her Love, Honest Soul, Hope, Illusion, Life, Lights Up, Love, Need, Pain, Past, Peace, Poetry and Poems, Push, Rain, Sad, Scar, She Says, Shine, Smile, Sometimes, Soul, Stars, Still Small Voice, Story, Tale, Tears, Tell, Trick, Tripped, Trust, Ugly Truths, Unafraid, Victory, Voices, Walked, Youth
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The New Tolerance
The New Toleranceby Michael Doyle A little something about toleranceIt’s not by majority or in ignoranceTruth is absolute and not up for voteThe new intolerance needs an antidote This the antidote or speaking truthSomething we should from our youthTruth spoken … Continue reading
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Tagged Absolute, Antidote, Day by Day, Equal In Worth, Ignorance, Intolerance, Majoirty, New, North, Objective, One Way, Opinion, Poetry and Poems, Saving Grace, Speaking Truth, Subjective, Tolerance, Truth, Vote, Youth
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