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Thursday, March 5, 2026
baseball movie 1
1. We meet HENRY, 50-something, in his Bainbridge Island apartment when he enters the kitchenette in boxers, socks and long-sleeve t-shirt, grabs a beer from the refrigerator, sits at the table with a window to the rainy morning, pops the top, takes a gulp, stares out the window, takes two more that empty the can he puts in a bin full of them, leaves.
SOUND OF LOUD HORN.
2. Henry on the ferry nearing Seattle, dressed for the weather, looking over the rail. He sneaks a sip from the can of beer he pulls from a pocket, puts it back.
3. Henry at work, a mechanic under a car rolling out from underneath it on a creeper-dolly, has hands greasy, his name on the patch on his shirt. He has a brief exchange with a co-worker about a vehicle. Bill will get to it when he's back from lunch.
4. Henry at lunch, pizza and bottle of beer, downtown Seattle, observing the street and sidewalk activity when he looks up from the book (TBD) he is reading. He finishes his pizza and beer, leaves
5. Etc.
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So he gets the call from the cousin whose father - Henry's uncle - has committed suicide (hose from exhaust pipe to cab of old Suburban) and left Bill his trailer in the desert south of Deming, New Mexico, west of the Florida Mountains.
Henry quits job, leaves for Deming - transportation TBD - to assume the trailer. He meets (gay) cousin (and cousin's partner) to get the keys to trailer, Suburban, shed. Cousin and partner spend the night, leave the next morning.
Henry enjoys his first day and night (under starry sky), is quick to Home Improvement. A visit to the hardware store introduces him to the animal shelter he later visits to get a dog, thus meeting Her (name TBD), assistant manager of the shelter. Instant chemistry.
Game on.
Yi 5: TAWIMD 3: repository 2
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."
honda knot last time on a horse
TOM: When's the last time you were on a horse?
CHLOE: Does a mule count?
TOM: I'd say so.
CHLOE: Then three years ago at the Grand Canyon.
TOM: Alright.
CHLOE: And before that the pony ride at the state fair when I was six.
TOM: What county fair was that?
CHLOE: Mid-state, in Paso Robles. When's the last time you were on a horse?
TOM: End of April. We got friends with horses outside Sheridan.
CHLOE: Wanda rides?
TOM: Since she was a little girl in Idaho City.
CHLOE: Safe to say that's in Idaho?
TOM: Very safe. Bout an hour northeast of Boise. How 'bout you, Hunter.
HUNTER: Last time on a horse?
TOM: Yessir.
HUNTER: Same Grand Canyon mule ride.
TOM: Before that?
HUNTER: Costa Rica.
JACKIE: What were you doing in Costa Rica?
HUNTER: Honeymoon.
JACKIE: Oh.
Tom and Chloe exchange wry smiles. First sight of white sand dunes.
TOM: Safe to say we're comin' up on white sands?
CHLOE: Very safe.
TOM: I thought we might stop in for sunset, if everyone's up for it.
JACKIE: Up.
CHLOE: Up.
TOM: Up. Prob'ly a good photo opportunity.
CHLOE: Speaking of which, would you be up for a selfie?
TOM: Up. Would you be up for forwarding it to me so I can pass it along to Wanda and Ruthie?
CHLOE: Up.
Chloe scoots closer to Tom, angles the phone to frame the shot. Hunter and Jackie look at each other. Jackie winks, Hunter squeezes her hand. Chloe takes the selfie.
Honda Knot beats from Barbara/Brian re Tom/Olivia/Reno to Kate/Cedric re Thomas Travis
1. Barbara and Brian, in bed. Window to sunset on ocean. Chloe selfie.
2. John and Jan, Lake Nacimiento sunset, Chloe selfie.
3. Hunter, Chloe, Tom, night, patio table.
4. Next day. About the truck, heeere's Jackie.
5. Wanda with Daisy, more about Chloe re age, senior year, San Luis Obispo. Selfie from Tom.
6. Ruth places same selfie, framed.
7. Rover. Last time on a horse, Grand Canyon, Tom's uncle in Flagstaff, Ruth's family tree.
8. Gil and Maria, re Tom's Las Cruces layover.
9. Sess and Claire, kids and horses, Rover arrive, intros.
10. Kate and Cedric. More on Tom re middle name Travis, retired ranch foreman.
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