Wednesday, April 29, 2026

Yi 133: what so Influences Return today to Annamarie

 WTH?



Hilary Barrett:

"Influence is what moves people, and how people are open and available to be moved – by emotion or inspiration, physical responses or visiting spirits. All these things touch, stir and attract us, drawing us into relationship. The Chinese character for 'influence' shows a mouth and a weapon: the influence goes deep, and makes us vulnerable.

It is good to respond to the power of influence with constancy, steadying the motion it inspires and creating a place in your life to contain it. The man who 'takes a woman' in marriage brings her into his home and makes room for her there. Good fortune comes from this more feminine way of relating: being open and allowing space for new influences."

recent related Annamarie Influence.

Tuesday, April 28, 2026

Yi 127: marathon '27

 whether Orange County or Missoula.

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HK final beats 13-20

1-12

13. Day. Barbara with John and Jan gets Hunter's call re Tom Walker. Middle name.

14. Day. Wanda with Daisy gets Tom's call from Hunter's guest room. Tom calls Ruth, at peach stand, leaves room, arrives back yard, framed by window over guest room desk. 

15. Day. Gil, reading Foglost, Maria, knock knock Ida gets Tom's Organ Mountains selfie. Hijole. 

16. Day. Hunter and Chloe airport.

17. Hunter and Chloe arrive Hunter's, Tom's truck in driveway. Intros, inquiry.

18. Sunset. Barbara and Brian, re Tom and Olivia. Chloe pic.

19. Sunset. John and Jan, Chloe pic. 

20. Night. Hunter, Chloe, Tom re Wanda and 25th re Hawaii, re surf, re Pismo re San Diego and USMC. Hunter call Jackie.

Monday, April 27, 2026

HK final beats 1-12

1. Night Tom and Wanda, Hawaii and Foglost.

2. Sunrise. Their house, Wyoming plates, ABQ monsoon, re Daisy, Tom leaves, wind chimes.

3. Day. Gil, Maria, Boys, Foglost, knock knock Ida.

4. Sunset. Tom ARR ABQ motel. 

5. Sunrise. Tom LV ABQ motel.

6. Day. John, Jan, Chloe, Barbara, MBZ Wagon, re Jackie, Horse Day.

7. Day. Hunter, home office, Organ Mountains, Chloe pics.

8. Day. Tom driving in Hunter's 'hood. Aviators.

9. Day. Hunter, kitchen, calendar, trash bag.

10. Day. Tom ARR Hunter's. Phona camera. Hunter in garage. Tom drives away.

11. Tom U-turn.

12. Hunter, foyer, doorbell, Tom Howdy and enter.

HK scene 1

INT. BEDROOM - NIGHT

TOM and WANDA, 70-somethings in pajamas and reading glasses, sit up in bed under covers to their waists, reading. Wanda turns a page of James Michener's novel, Hawaii, in paperback. Tom has a hardcover titled Foglost, written by H.C. Hardyn, per the dark grey font on the light grey cover and spine. Unlit candles on floating shelf above headboard. Smart phone and lamp on their respective nightstands.    

WANDA: Should we do a luau?

TOM: Well, what is it they say about when you're in Rome?

WANDA: Do as the Romans do.

TOM: Heck, I'm halfway thinkin' about takin' a surfin' lesson.

WANDA: Well that's some halfway thinking alright.

TOM: What? You think this dog's too old to learn anew trick?

WANDA: I'd pay to see it.

TOM: Won't have to. Got 'em down the beach from the hotel. You just bring your Mai Tai, stick your toes in the sand and observe.

WANDA: Oh I'll record it and post it on the blog.  

TOM: Guess I better start doin' my pushups, squats and crunches and go easier on the ice cream.

WANDA: Maybe I'll take a hula lesson.

TOM: I'll be parked under a palm tree for that.

Wanda sets book in lap to make a hula dance movement with her arms and hands. Tom smiles, turs page.

TOM: Do ya think we'll get lei'd?

Wanda, entirely surprised, looks at him big-eyed. He looks at her.

WANDA: Thomas Travis Walker. My goodness gracious.

TOM: What? Ain't that what they call them flower necklaces they give ya when ya get off the plane? A lei.

Wanda shakes her head.

WANDA: Yes, a lei. But I don't think airlines do that anymore.

TOM: Oh.

Wanda resumes reading.

WANDA: But I have a feeling our chances of getting lei'd will be considerably better when we get to our room.      

Tom looks up, stares straight ahead, genuinely surprised, sets books in lap, looks at Wanda, who grins, looks at Tom, winks. They stare at each other, set books on nightstands, TURN OFF LAMPS TO BLACK.

SQUEAK OF BEDSPRINGS. 

Thursday, April 23, 2026

Hunter and Gil dialogue in progress

EXT.   OAK MOTTE - DAY

Describe.

Gil and Hunter in ATV aimed at view. The boys in treehouse, ATV nearby. 

HUNTER: How long have you been here?

GIL: My entire life.  My dad and uncle used their G-I bills to start a construction company in San Antonio. Couple years later dad bought the land, started building on his time off. We'd come up and spend the night in tents. 

HUNTER: We being whom?

GIL: Me, my sister, mom and dad, and whomever of his crew were up. Uncle did the same with land he bought near Vanderpool. 

HUNTER: World war two G-I bill.

GIL: Yessir. Dad was Army in France, his brother Danny was U-S-M-C in the Philippines. 

HUNTER: Tom was a Marine in Vietnam.

GIL: He was. Did he talk about it?

HUNTER: No. Just a reference to boot camp in San Diego.

GIL: We were there together.

HUNTER: Ruth mentioned that. And that you might be willing to talk about it.

GIL: She mentioned you might ask. We can do that. Maybe when you're back next week.

HUNTER: Thank you.

GIL: I've got pictures.

HUNTER: I'd love to see them.

GIL: Deer at your three o-clock.

A beat before it occurs to Hunter to turn to his right to see the WHITETAIL BUCK looking back at them from fifty yards away.

HUNTER: Did Tom hunt?

GIL: Got his first here, right where he is, from the tree house. His thirteenth birthday. Me, Tom and our dads. But if he ever pulled a trigger after he cam back I don't know about it. 

HUNTER: Came back from Vietnam.

GIL: Yessir. 

HUNTER: Did he ever say why?

GIL: We talked about it. I'll tell you more when you're back, if you're interested.

HUNTER: Very.

GIL: Have you ever hunted, Hunter?

HUNTER: I killed a robin with a slingshot when I was eleven. That was enough hunting for me. 


to be continued.

Yi 118: white girl brown hair dream re McP

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Yi 117: Gift From God in The Gazebo Dream

Precog. "You should check out the Cloudcroft area." 


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Tuesday, April 21, 2026

Yi 116: OCM27 6

NO to Missoula. 

OCM27 5

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Yi 115: beats set in stone

 


Hilary Barrett:

"This is about natural beauty, like the beauty of a plant, whose form is the perfect, simple expression of its nature. It's also about the way people create images to communicate something of a person's or thing's inner nature."

Monday, April 20, 2026

Sunday, April 19, 2026

baseball movie 8 Kid’s Dad

baseball movie 7

We meet him after we meet his bat, doing time in a midwestern prison, for manslaughter, nearing a parole hearing that might get him out. He comes out of a dugout to an on-deck area to wait for his at-bat in a prison league softball game. He’s mid-40s, fit, a regular with the weights in The Yard. His thick and taut arms are almost entirely covered in tattoos. 

We probably learn more about him via conversation in the opposing dugout before he comes to the plate and drives ball a jaw-dropping distance over a guard tower. Dugout conversation probably includes a cigarette wager that is decided by the home run. 

As did the softball leave the prison so does Kid’s Dad, having won parole. Though we don’t know it right away, he is a mostly reformed man who has maintained contact with Kid, and is aware Karen wants nothing to do with him other than is absolutely necessary. 

Kid’s Dad has a problem in a debt owed that he does not have the funds to pay, pressuring him toward activity that might make the money and might put him back n prison for good, and possibly killed. 

The bat is NOT one he used in the minors, it is a game used and autographed Dick Allen Louisville Slugger.

Yi 114: what Writerly Trait pushed through Resistance this morning

 



Oracle
'Creative Force.
From the source, creating success.
Constancy bears fruit.'

Hilary Barrett:

"This is the pure creative spirit that flows through people and events: it drives towards manifestation, an inspiration that wants to be realized.

It begins with an opening to the source of the creative impulse – not plans or intentions, but the vital energy that powers them. Then you create success by sustaining a continuous, two-way flow between source and action. You step into the heart of a process of creation, welcome its momentum and find ways to join and work with it.

Through constancy, this brings out intrinsic potential and yields a harvest of positive results. To be constant is to be true to your intent, faithfully aligning all your choices with your original vision, and carrying your understanding through in practice and over time."

Hunter's dream, in progress

EXT. MODEST CAMPFIRE - NIGHT

POV CAMERA aimed at small fire encircled by stones. OCCASIONAL CRACK AND POP OF FLAMES CONSUMING TWIGS, WHISPER OF STREAM THROJUGH GRAVEL BAR, FAINT LOWING OF CATTLE. 

TOM (0.S.) Do you remember the way back.

CAMERA TILTS UP to Tom's bearded face, eyes concealed by the brim of his worn felt cowboy hat, red bandana around the collar of his trail-worn shirt, his hands open to the fire for warmth. He's sitting on a log, legs crossed at ankles, gloves on a rock near the fire. 

CAMERA TILTS UP AND DOWN TWICE.  

TOM: Regrets?

CAMERA PANS SIDE TO SIDE TWICE. 


to be continued.

rltnshp dream: white girl, brown nhair

She's considerably younger, white with brown hair and green or blue eyes, as best i recall. Shorter than tall. She's leaving, there's a rift, I confess my love, she reciprocates. BUT there's a problem. Probably problems. For one, I'm "grumpy," per her, and I know not to argue 'cause she's got some right on her side. Dreams ends at goodbyes, after "give it time, we'll check in later." She's going to Texas. My sense of need to get my shit together if I want to be with her.

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Saturday, April 18, 2026

baseball movie 7: opening scene and Bobby/date/Louisville Slugger

baseball movie 6

Henry’s dream. include Uncle. the Suburban. Monsoon and water in the arroyo. Sunrise. THUNDER wakes him to Bainbridge Island apartment. 

Bobby is a teammate from Henry’s minor league days, now a coach with a minor league baseball team based in Alpine, Texas, playing at Kokernot.

They meet in El Paso when Henry takes in the Suburban for the chop.  Bobby provides the tickets to the game that is The First Date, Kid included.  Kid of course asks how Henry knows Bobby. Thusly are we introduced to Henry’s brief baseball career.

Providing Henry the opportunity to inquire about the baseball bat he saw at Karen’s  house. Kid tells us it’s his dad’s.

Henry leaves it at that. 

Yi 113: how to fix the mess i've made

 

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caught

 I let it get away a little.

It's got away a lot.

Robust has given in to brittle,

ripe has gone to rot.

I have arrived in the middle

of rock and hard place, caught.

Friday, April 17, 2026

Yi 110: MM27 5

 MM27 4




Other titles: The Symbol of Great Vigor, Great Strength, Great Invigorating

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baseball movie 6: arrival and drive to river

baseball movie 5

Henry flies to El Paso to meet Cousin and Cousin's Partner, staying at the Plaza. We learn mopre about Henry via Cousin telling Partner. All drive the next day to the manufactured home in the desert south of Deming, near the Florida Mountains. Cousin hands over keys (to house, shed, Suburban, other) and leaves with partner in rental SUV, to El Paso for flight home to Tulsa. Henry pops a beer, goes to Suburban, starts engine, goes for a drive to Hatch and a spot on the river.


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Thursday, April 16, 2026

Yi 109: born-again virgin 1

 15 and-a-half years of willful celibacy.






Hilary Barrett:

"This is about natural beauty, like the beauty of a plant, whose form is the perfect, simple expression of its nature. It's also about the way people create images to communicate something of a person's or thing's inner nature.

This becomes a fruitful way to engage with the world when you have a purpose in mind – like someone who becomes a suitor for the sake of his bride, or a figure of authority for the sake of those she teaches. This is an image created for the sake of communication and relationship, as a first step towards a chosen destination."


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Yi 108: how does Following this repository Nourish Annamarie

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Yi 107: of what use to Annamarie this repository

 




Yi 106: what most makes me Unfit For Relationship

 





Other titles: Conflict, The Symbol of Contention, Strife, Quarreling, Arguing

Yi 105: the most common experience of Falling In Love?

 



Other titles: The Symbol of Harmonious Joy, Happiness, Merriment, Harmonize, Excitement 

Yi 104: how did The Pilot moist Wound Shen Li, revisited

 previously


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Wednesday, April 15, 2026

Yi 103: Throw Everything Away this weekend

 re Housecleaning and commencing addressing The Mess.


Hilary Barrett:

"When you exceed something, you cross over a line and make a transition. The traditional Chinese house has a structure like an old-fashioned tent: uprights support a horizontal ridgepole, and all the weight of roof and walls is suspended from there. Here, the ridgepole's limits have been exceeded; the supporting framework is no longer adequate to the weight it's asked to bear."

Yi 102: how did Angelo most Wound Annamarie, revisited

 previously



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Other titles: The Symbol of Destruction, Corrupting, Degeneration, Misdeeds

Yi 101: trouble avoided because i do not marry

 




Other titles: Opposition, The Symbol of Strangeness and Disunion, The Estranged, Opposites, Polarizing, Alienation, Distant From, Perversion, Disharmony, Separated, Contradiction, Estrangement, Incongruity


Hilary Barrett:

'" Opposing' describes irreducible differences – desires, motivations and especially ways of seeing that diverge from one another. 'Opposing' people see differently even when they're looking at the same scene; they are utterly strange to each other, as if they came from different planets. With an inner state of 'Opposing', you contain mutually contradictory impulses – like two siblings under one roof – or see from two angles at once. You might see things not only for what they are, but also for what they mean, as if they were omens.

In small affairs, this kind of difference of view means good fortune. It's a challenge, a source of comedy, or a creative stimulus. In matters of great personal importance, though, where people's sense of identity is threatened by a different way of seeing, it will stir up survival instincts and trigger conflict." 

Yi 100: what good that i leave Annamarie alone

 


Hilary Barrett:

" 'Opposing' describes irreducible differences – desires, motivations and especially ways of seeing that diverge from one another. 'Opposing' people see differently even when they're looking at the same scene; they are utterly strange to each other, as if they came from different planets. With an inner state of 'Opposing', you contain mutually contradictory impulses – like two siblings under one roof – or see from two angles at once. You might see things not only for what they are, but also for what they mean, as if they were omens.

In small affairs, this kind of difference of view means good fortune. It's a challenge, a source of comedy, or a creative stimulus. In matters of great personal importance, though, where people's sense of identity is threatened by a different way of seeing, it will stir up survival instincts and trigger conflict." 


Yi 99: Annamarie Influence 1

Like a Spell.


Hilary Barrett:

"Influence is what moves people, and how people are open and available to be moved – by emotion or inspiration, physical responses or visiting spirits. All these things touch, stir and attract us, drawing us into relationship. The Chinese character for 'influence' shows a mouth and a weapon: the influence goes deep, and makes us vulnerable.


It is good to respond to the power of influence with constancy, steadying the motion it inspires and creating a place in your life to contain it. The man who 'takes a woman' in marriage brings her into his home and makes room for her there. Good fortune comes from this more feminine way of relating: being open and allowing space for new influences."

Yi 98: what dilemma was i to Annamarie that i am no longer (and bonus follow-up)

 



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Yi 97: what good that i know i know nothing

 

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Tuesday, April 14, 2026

Yi 96: why Veronica in dreams

 


Hilary Barrett:

"The ancient Chinese character for Clarity shows a flying bird, and a net to capture it. Birds are messengers; this one represents flashes of insight, the way things can light up and shine out clearly. We weave a net of concepts to grasp the message and hold its meaning in awareness. This is not passive seeing, but a meeting of outer and inner light.

Seeing the truth and holding to it with constancy bears fruit. Then the moment of insight can become lasting awareness, so that we enter into creative communication with the signs and messages around us, and truly see other people."