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For all those who have served (and especially those who gave that “last full measure of devotion”) for those who are currently serving, a grateful nation remembers and prays for you and your families… |
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2022 | An Honorable Preference |
2021 | Very Young Or Very New |
Feelin’ It | |
2020 | Or To Destroy Democracy |
2019 | A Defense Of Liberty |
2018 | And Blog To Word Up To The Universe |
The Irony Of Greed | |
2017 | Or Revisiting A Blog Site |
2016 | Alas, Too Often The Latter |
2015 | Either / Or |
2014 | Memorial Day – 2014 |
Perfection | |
2013 | Memorial Day Video |
Equal = Equal | |
2012 | Congrats, Nephew!! |
Doggie Vision Networks | |
The Flash: Omnibus | |
JLI: vol 1 | |
Flash: Rebirth | |
Burning Images | |
What Do You Believe? | |
2011 | Are We Still At War With The Poor? |
Archive for May 26th, 2014
Memorial Day – 2014
Posted in Faith Family and Friends, Pictures, tagged Faith, Memorial Day - 2014, Pictures on May 26, 2014| 2 Comments »
Perfection
Posted in My Journal, Philosophy, Poetry, Quotes, tagged Kahlil Gibran, My Journal, Perfection, Philosophy, Poems, Poetry, Quotes on May 26, 2014| Leave a Comment »
You ask me, my brother, when will man reach | |
perfection. Hear my answer: | |
Man approaches perfection when he | |
feels that he is an infinite space and a sea | |
without a shore, | |
An everlasting fire, an unquenchable | |
light, | |
A calm wind or a raging tempest, a thundering | |
sky or a rainy heaven, | |
A singing brook or a wailing rivulet, a tree abloom | |
in Spring, or a naked sapling | |
in Autumn. | |
A rising mountain or a descending valley, | |
A fertile plain or a desert. | |
When man feels all these, he has already | |
reached halfway to perfection. To attain his goal | |
he must then perceive | |
that he is a child dependent upon his mother, | |
a father responsible for his family, | |
A youth lost in love, | |
An ancient wrestling against his past, | |
A worshipper in his temple, a criminal in | |
his prison, | |
A scholar amidst his parchments, | |
An ignorant soul stumbling between the darkness of his | |
night and the obscurity of his day, | |
A nun suffering between the flowers of her faith and | |
the thistles of her loneliness, | |
A prostitute caught between the fangs of her | |
weakness and the claws of her needs, | |
A poor man trapped between his bitterness and his | |
submission, | |
A rich man between his greed and his conscience, | |
A poet between the mist of his twilight and the | |
rays of his dawn. | |
Who can experience, see, and understand | |
these things can reach perfection and | |
become a shadow of God’s Shadow. | |
— Kahlil Gibran | |
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On This Day In: | |
2022 | An Honorable Preference |
2021 | Very Young Or Very New |
Feelin’ It | |
2020 | Or To Destroy Democracy |
2019 | A Defense Of Liberty |
2018 | And Blog To Word Up To The Universe |
The Irony Of Greed | |
2017 | Or Revisiting A Blog Site |
2016 | Alas, Too Often The Latter |
2015 | Either / Or |
2014 | Memorial Day – 2014 |
Perfection | |
2013 | Memorial Day Video |
Equal = Equal | |
2012 | Congrats, Nephew!! |
Doggie Vision Networks | |
The Flash: Omnibus | |
JLI: vol 1 | |
Flash: Rebirth | |
Burning Images | |
What Do You Believe? | |
2011 | Are We Still At War With The Poor? |