Day 195
Watching
“Lonesome Dove”, the movie, on Sunday evenings
One
of the very “best” books I ever read! Bar---none!
McMurtry breathed life into his memorable
characters as the frontier movement conquered the Great Plains of North America
and spread to the awesome Rockies as intrepid trappers led the way to national
expansion braving wild Indians, wicked weather and myriad perilous trials.
I made only one mistake with the tomb---I read
the book before I watched the movie. Always a mistake, just as it was with The
Godfather. The human imagination-spirit builds “movie” sets like no Hollywood
technician ever can achieve. “Reality” reigns! Better than any movie---ever!
“Lonesome Dove” had been out for a time when
one of the networks undertook to air it in segments on Sunday nights; I was
glued to the T.V. set along with the family. What a show!
The author, Larry McMurtry, perpetrated the
same “evil” writer’s trick on me as did the late novelist, James Michener; each
time I came to appreciate, understand, befriend and love a character in their
worked---they killed them off…Boom!
The myriad means of the demise unimportant; the loss of a new “friend” leaves
an emotional hole nearly as real as life-events.
I have watched the movie several times since
that first viewing and enjoyed it each time---immensely! Good “friends” may
pass, come and go like white fluffy clouds floating across a cerulean sky
shadowing those they touch, but they continue to “live” in your
heart---forever!
If any of those who know me wonder
“why?”---here is the reason as to why I love…Life!
Dare
allow the curious child you once knew to join
the awesome events of adventure of life!
Ah! Cookie Jar Sweet “Life-adventures” Memories!
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