Blog Entries tagged 'trust'

No Pair. A Song For Gamblers.

kenandjody@comcast.net — Sat, 31 May 2008 00:00:00 +0100

No Pair is an allegory that condenses a lifetime into a poker game. The "dealer," in the story (and usually in life on earth) is the Devil. The reader (or listener) may not believe in a devil, but anybody who experiences this earthly existence has experienced temptation.

Joe F., my neighbor and friend in the mid-'80's, taught literature and writing in a southern university. Joe wr [...]

A House Full of Country Love. For Upscale Women.

kenandjody@comcast.net — Sat, 31 May 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Like so many of the songs I have written, this one grew out of love for my wife. We'll call her Katy here in the interest of her anonymity. Katy was God's favorite tool for blessing me.

This song tells her favorite memories from childhood, much of which she spent in a tiny rural community deep in the south with her grandparents...Nanny and Pappy.

A House Full of Country Love

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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See 'Ya Next Time." A Song for Divorced Dads.

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

See 'Ya Next Time. A Song for Divorced Dads.

Posted by: KenP in trust, society, social capital, shutting down, Men, Masculinity, Isolation, fear, costs, battle of the sexes on May 29, 2008

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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 [...]

The First One To Leave Was Her Own Dad (A Song for Single Mothers)

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

There are so many ways that alcoholism and addiction lead to single-parent families that I don't know where to start. For example, about 88% of the people in prisons...men and women alike, are there because of crimes they committed while under the influence of drugs and/or alcohol. Then there are just the numer of people who kill themselves (and others) on the road every year while under the influence of some chemical...about 50,000.

"The Affair," or How an alcoholic wife shifted her guilt

kenandjody@comcast.net — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 17:35:23 +0100

"The Affair"

Alcoholic wives resist every effort by an enablibng husband to escape the bondage of her extreme need for alcohol. One disturbing trend starts when he starts atending 12-step meetings for codependents, such as Al-Anon or Nar-A-Non. To her frustration, he seems to come home from these meetings whistling like he used to do. About thistime, she suddenly comes to the perfect solution to this conundrum; he is having an affair!

Yes, it all fits [...]

How Much Does Alcoholism Cost Society?

kenandjody@comcast.net — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 00:00:00 +0100

Nobody escapes paying the price for alcoholism, drug addiction, and codependency in society. Even if you are fortunate enough not to be a drinker at a level that is diseased (about 10% of our population drinks enough to hamper their daily performance) or one of the four adults who are in line daily enabling one who is (i.e., 48% of all adults over the age of 18 were either directly impacted by a diseased drinker as they grew up, or are being effected at the moment), then you are paying fo [...]

Trust the program; Men in Al-Anon

kenandjody@comcast.net — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 12:10:19 +0100

With time, God, and the program, an adult man raised as a hero child can learn to trust somebody other than himself. After doing thorough fourth and fifth steps (see chapters.....in the recovery section), the responsibility for the chaos that the Al-Anon really deserves is teased out from that over which he was truly powerless as a little kid. His inventory includes his positivequalities as well. The patience, capacity to nourish other people, and hard work ethic that he fo [...]