Have you ever seen the movie 'Conagher'? 3rd-tier cowboy movie maybe. But I saw the first half in a hotel room on forced govt travel and had to see the rest when I got home. Sam Elliot impressed me no end...
Evie Teale is a western widow who writes notes and attaches them to tumbleweeds to drift away like messages in a bottle at sea. Cowboys find them sometimes but her identity is a mystery. Conagher has met Mrs Teale a couple of times and likes her and wants to tell her that, but he stays a drifter.
Long story short, he does finally figure out that she is the author of the notes.
There is a bar fight with The Bad Guy. Conagher wins, barely almost beaten to death but still standing... Mrs Teale arrives and says "It's time for you to come home now." Happy ending.
I understand Conagher. Yeah, I'm a home-boy and he is a drifter, but its not all that different. We both just go along on our own one day at a time.
Or maybe I'm Mrs Teale. Internet posts are not very different from notes attached to tumbleweeds. Thoughts sent out into the world with no idea who might read them and no results expected. I write because I need to express thoughts, not for some number of replies (which however, are gratefully received and read).
I sometimes think I am both Conagher and Mrs Teale. All of us are both in some ways. I suppose. Some of us match up and some don't. Myself, I just drift through life like Conagher, but like Mrs Teale, I send notes to the world. Not that I'm trying to find a Conagher/Teale connection, just trying to to get through life.
I probably shouldn't post this, but "well why not"? It's "just" the internet. Notes attached to tumbleweeds...
I bet Conagher would have liked cats. 😀
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