Respect

Atlantic, under Warner. The demand is plain. She is not asking to be adored. She is asking to be dealt with straight.

Atlantic released it. Warner holds Atlantic. Otis Redding had sung a man's complaint. Franklin turned the song around and made it a woman's terms for staying. The band knows it. The sock-it-to-me is not cute. It is a count.

A house should already be practicing this before the record comes on. If it is not, the record is a place to start.

The eight

Industry
9/10
The voice, the band, the spelling lesson. All of it is work.
Household
7/10
A home, and the terms inside it. She is not leaving. She is correcting.
Piety
5/10
Dignity, which is close to reverence for a person.
Courage
9/10
She says the demand in a room that was used to her being quieter.
Republic
7/10
What she is owed is not a mood. It is a duty.
Temperance
6/10
Fire, and it stays on the point.
Truth
9/10
No code. Respect, said as itself.
Stewardship
9/10
A standard a daughter should hear from her own house first.

Live historicallyPlay it, then ask whether anyone in this house is being useful and unthanked. Fix that today.

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Man in Black

Columbia, under Sony. The poor, the prisoner, the young dead. He says why.

Columbia released it. Sony owns Columbia. Cash could have let the black suit be a costume. He spends the record saying it is a reminder of people who are not in the room where the records are played.

A house can argue with his politics and still keep the question. Who is your habit for?

The eight

Industry
7/10
A list song that does not become a list of virtues about himself.
Household
6/10
The old and the lonely are in the verse.
Piety
7/10
A reason for a habit, given without theater.
Courage
8/10
He takes a side in public.
Republic
9/10
Prisoners, the poor, a war. Duty is the subject.
Temperance
7/10
No swagger past the point.
Truth
9/10
He says what the black is for, and it is not a brand.
Stewardship
8/10
A standard: if you wear a sign, know who it is for.

Live historicallyName one person the house is not looking at, and do one concrete thing toward them this week.