Blog Entries tagged 'Respect'

Out In The Cold. A Song for Lonely Cowboys.

kenandjody@comcast.net — Thu, 29 May 2008 00:00:00 +0100

My friend, Kit Johnson at Kansa Records, an- independent label in Nashville, asked me to write an old fashioned cowboy song. Her exact words were "...Ken, I want the saddest, loneliest cowboy song you can write...something that might have been sung by the Sons of the Pioneers." Some of you really old cowboys may remember this group as the harmonizing cowboys who originally launched a guy named Roy Rogers.

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Your Country Style. A Song About A Texas Gentleman.

kenandjody@comcast.net — Wed, 28 May 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Country Style

It's not your boots, not your hat,

Not even your je [...]

How 'Ya Do. A Song for Honky-Tonkers

kenandjody@comcast.net — Fri, 23 May 2008 00:00:00 +0100

It all starts with the first date. There are always expectations as a man and a woman First meet. This nice country duet explorers the expectations most common TO men and women when they meet in a honky tonk.

How Ya Do.

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Easy Does It (A Song For Frustrated Women)

kenandjody@comcast.net — Mon, 19 May 2008 00:00:00 +0100

The first rung of our mental awareness ladder to disappear when we swallow alcohol is the rung that holds up JUDGEMENT. That fact has caused more human suffering than most of us can imagine. One form of sufferring is the sufferring that happens when a lack of judgement is mixed in with an all-too human emotion...lust. That mixture often results in unwanted pregnancies, jail-time, shame, STD's, or maybe a lifetimes of marriage between two people who barely know [...]

I'm Losing Me For You (A Song for Codependent Men)

kenandjody@comcast.net — Sat, 17 May 2008 00:00:00 +0100

This song for codependent men explores the thoughts experienced by every man I ever met, codependent or not, about what it feels like to give yourself away entirely for the love of a woman.

That is on one level. For every man who has ever given himself away to a woman...who has long ago given herself over to alcohol, there is another level of abandonment altogether. That is the level every codependent man knows, and has to [...]

Graduation Day

dawicker104@yahoo.com — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 23:00:00 +0100

By Rev. Ned Wicker,

http://Drug-Addiction-Support.org

The group session on spirituality was just wrapping up when one of the staffers opened the door and asked "Are you almost finished?" For Janice, one of four women in the group, it was time to go home. She had finished a five-day stay at the residential drug and alcohol treatment center, and this day, as she put it, was "graduation day."

It was a strange, almost surreal moment. Afte [...]

Addiction and Respect

kenandjody@comcast.net — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 08:45:10 +0100

There are various ways to gain respect. The most difficult is to use the personal discipline to grow first on an individual basis (by maturing in areas such as self control, patience, etc.) and then to go out and lead a fruitful life.

Another way is to intimidate, fight, and bluster at other people. This method makes the incorrect basic assumptionthat respect and fear are synonymous.

Unfortunately, addiction is progressive. T [...]