Well, it’s late evening and I just got back in the house after working out on the farm all day. It doesn’t take much of an Oklahoma summer for you to wish winter were here. That’s why we Okies are so fickle; it doesn’t take much of winter time for us to wish summer was back either!
I have been contemplating all day on what to write on my new column/blog. My bestest friend Debra Coppinger Hill worked tirelessly to get our new web site (AlwaysCowboy.net) up and running with a blog area for us to put our poetry and columns on. Thanks Debra, you have done a magnificent job. Your check is in the mail. (Trust me, she doesn’t believe that either.)
I have been writing for a long time and have a significant following of people that have kept up with me over the years. These are really good folks and I want to thank them all for their support, but I understand that there must be something in them that loves punishment.
In order to follow my writing style you need to understand that you’re going to need to be able to at least register somewhere on the IQ scale to ‘get it’. I strive to be an enigma; one week I maybe off on politics then the next column may be about relationships or fishing or guns or anywhere in between. The only thing I probably will rarely hit on is sports. I stopped following any kind of sports when I left High School (and didn’t follow it much then).
The only thing close to sports I have been involved in over the years is rodeo and shooting sports. I’ve owned horses my whole life and I’m a firearms instructor so that is where my interest lies.
Whatever it is that catches my interest at the time will be the theme of the column so you will have to be able GET IT! I use raw humor and adult themes; not pornography type adult, just grown-up type. I never mean to offend or insult anyone. However if you get offended or insulted by anything I say just get over it. In today’s politically correct society people think they can go through life and if their feelings get hurt over something they can get mad upset and scream “YOU OFFENDED ME”. Well go ahead and scream because I can’t hear you and don’t care if you are offended. If I did care I wouldn’t have written it in the first place.
We all have to look in the mirror every now and then and see deep inside our hearts, our minds and our souls. You are not as important to the world as you think you are. Who you are important to is measured by your value to your friends and family.
Finding yourself getting upset and angry over every little thing you don’t like may be reflecting in your personal life with those that do care. Learn to laugh at yourself, learn to laugh at others, and more important, learn to laugh at me; because I may be the one that steps on your toes hard enough to bring you out of your self-imposed delusion of grandeur.
Until we meet down by the pasture gate again, God bless and keep a loose rein.
Dave King© 2010
The Pasture Gate Productions
http://alwayscowboy.net
