rickl, one of my favorites, ‘maggie’s farm’, links to neoneocon from time to time –they get off into psychologist-to-psychologist talk and such.

Eulogies, one that always gets me, and i suppose writer Larry McMurtry would be proud to re-dedicate to old Fred, especially more so had he been reading his writing, is from a western film “Broken Trails”. The Robert Duvall character, cowboy Prentiss Ritter, is at a rough & dusty outdoor funeral burying a Chinese woman friend who had had nothing in her short life but bad luck and hard times. Ritter is unprepared to speak but is called upon anyways. He thinks a moment and then quietly says:

“We are all travelers in this world. From the sweet grass to the packing house, birth till death, we travel between the eternities.”

“we travel between the eternities” –that’s the truth, the bare & lonesome truth.