Silly Interlude Sarah meeting dreams

These two dreams a few years ago, and back-to-back nights.

In both I am seated at an outside table of what I'll call a cafe, but I don't really know. Daytime. Same place both times and I'm reminded of a place on Melrose where Kristie and I went to a couple few times early in our relationship.

But no matter.

I'm at same place in both dreams in which Sarah shows up for the meeting we've arranged. I have the beard I used to have but Sarah recognizes me.

A Meeting. Our Meeting. Clearly about my screenplay.

Both dreams end as she arrives and is about to sit down.

Sarah is someone I know in "The Industry" to whom I will send the link to the Final Draft blog of this screenplay, which I'll start next week.

Other titles: Coming to Meet, The Symbol of Meeting

Hilary Barrett:

" 'Coupling' means meeting, and also a woman who gives birth to the heir – the powerful woman. She represents someone (of either sex) or something with a profound and mysterious power to attract you, to take over, and to change everything. She moves you, re-energizes and gives birth to new life."

Act 2 beats

Act 1

17. The truck, Chloe license, heeere's Jackie, away.

18. Jan and John, found them.

19. Rover, last time on a horse, Grand Canyon.

20. Wanda, with Daisy, gets the Tom selfie that Ruth places, framed, near Hunter's books.

21. Sess and Claire, Rover arrive.

22. Horses through the pines.

23. Barbara and Brian, golf tomorrow.

24. Mountain meadow.

25. Gil, tattoo, the boys.

26. Horses uphill round the bend, Sierra Blanca view. 

27. John and Jan. 

28. Pinus ponderosa. Bonanza. Chuckwagon. Jackie, Sess and Claire lunch. 

29. Wanda and Daisy.

30. Creek. Re fishing.

31. Ruth.

32. Honda knot.

33. White Sands sunset.

34. Night. Hunter's, Jackie leaves, shooting star.

35. Tahoe tale. 

36. Tom facetimes Wanda and Ruth. The guestbook.

Silly Interlude re Andrea Bond and this blog

 

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Act 1 beats

1. Tom and Wanda. Hawaii.

2. Next day, sunrise. Truck, Wyoming, Tom leaving.

3. Gil (reading Foglost), Maria, the boys. Re no Wanda, the move. Tom's Huey selfie. 

4. Tom arrive ABQ motel, sunset, calls Wanda and Ruth.

5. Next day, sunrise. Tom leave.

6. Tom driving, Organ Mountains, GPS.

7. Hunter, home office, Organ Mountains. Kitchen, trash.

8. Tom outside Hunter's house, Rover in garage, Hunter out, Tom drive away. Tom U-turn.

9. Hunter, foyer, doorbell, Tom on porch, Howdy. Hunter re "daughter."

10. John (driving) Jan and Barbara. Hunter's call re "Tom Walker."

11. Wanda with Daisy, Tom's call from Hunter's guest room. Tom calls Ruth with Gil, hijole, Tom leaves room, appears in window.

12. Hunter (driving) and Chloe. "...talk to Doc about."

13. Tom patio. Hunter and Chloe appear in kitchen window. Out, intros, Hunter and Tom, Chloe takes picture.

14. Barbara and Brian re Tom and Olivia. Gets Chloe's selfie.

15. Sunset. John and Jan at home. Re Tom's middle name. Barb's forwarded Chloe selfie.

16. That night. Patio-post dinner. Hunter, Chloe and Tom. Re Hawaii. Hunter calls Jackie re another horse.

how have i best used this blog to get this screenplay ready for Final

 

About done here. Finalize beats, step away, begin Final next week. 

Hilary Barrett:

'Nearing' means drawing closer and gazing down over what you approach. There are two strands of meaning here: the approach of a greater spirit or presence in an ongoing process of growth, and your approach as the one who pays attention and takes responsibility. Like the creative drive of Hexagram 1, this great, growing energy comes from the source, asks for your full participation, and seeks to reach fruition and be realized. But its surging growth can be disastrously interrupted by 'reaching an end in the eighth month'.

The eighth month is the month of harvest. If this comes round too soon for what Nears to reach full growth – if the situation demands that you produce a tangible result prematurely – then this means misfortune. Or if you focus exclusively on results instead of watching patiently over developments – if your expectations are out of touch with the pace of growth – then there is misfortune.

Having something to show for a process of growth doesn't mean you've arrived at its outcome: harvest is not the end. As each harvest is gathered in and stored, the seasonal cycle of growth continues; you need to stay present to its ongoing changes, wherever they might lead.

Fort Park in progress

EXT PARKLIKE SETTING AMONG OAK TREES - DAY

Grey sky, strong breeze Lean-to with fire pit, archery target, horseshoe area, tire swing via rope and tree limb, picnic table, the boys and an ATV at a treehouse in progress. They converse and point at the early framing, Hunter and Gil sit with bottles Victorie beers in hand on a bench aimed at a vista to the hills and mesas of the surrounding land, ATV parked nearby where a trail down the hillside, near where FORT PARK has been neatly carved into a tree and painted army green.   

HUNTER: Where does the trail go?

GIL: Downhill to the creek.

HUNTER: Where does the creek go.

GIL: North Prong Medina River, when there's enough water in it. This storm will do that.  

HUNTER: How long have you been here?

GIL: All my life. My dad and his brothers bought the first parcel and started their construction company with their G-I bills.

HUNTER: My grandfather used his to go to school.

GIL: Where did he serve?

HUNTER: Pacific, Navy.

GIL: My dad and his brother Bobby were there with the Marines. Their brothers Rod and Ernie were Army in Europe.

HUNTER: They all came back.

GIL: Bobby did not. Killed on Okinawa. He was the oldest, then dad, then Ernie, then Rod. Anyway, the business did well, Soledad was born, me two year later, dad bought the first parcel, started work on the house. We'd come up from San Antonio when dad wasn't working, camp out, go hunting, work on the house, go tubing. That's how we met the Walker family.

HUNTER: Ruth told me. Will the boys be in the military?

GIL: Good question. You ever?

HUNTER: No. 

Lull.

HUNTER (cont.): Tom had a tattoo.

GIL: I have the same one, same place.

(G. Shows First Cavalry tat.)

(cont.) Same night in Bangkok. Did he talk about it?

HUNTER: No. I saw it when I found him in bed.

GIL: Did you talk about Vietnam?

Hunter shakes his head.

HUNTER: I was going to ask about it later. Would you be willing to talk about it?

GIL: We can do that. 

HUNTER: Thank you.

GIL: Maybe when you're back next week.

HUNTER: I'd like that. 

GIL: I've got pictures.

HUNTER: I'd love to see them. Drafted or enlisted?

GIL: Enlisted. Knew we'd be drafted so figured why not have a say in what we'd be doing. Signed on for what was called the buddy program. Did basic together at Fort Polk, Lousiana, A-I-T together, landed in Danang on the same plane, got split up pretty quickly thereafter at the replacement depot. 

DISTANT THUNDER.  

to be continued.

Barb and Brian 1: final form 1

INT/EXT. TO BE DETERMINED - DAY

Brian, 50-ish, stares at the White Sands selfie on Barbara's phone..  

BRIAN: What can you tell me about how Tom and Olivia came together?

He hands her the phone, she sets it down.

BARBARA: Well, Hunter called it a one-night stand. The details of which I've been trying to remember. The basics are that they met in a casino, hit it off well enough to make a date for a drive around Lake Tahoe the next day. 

BRIAN: What were they doing in Reno?

BARBARA: Tom had finished work on a ranch in another part of the state and was in Reno for the rodeo before heading on to Mexico for work on another ranch.

BRIAN: A cowboy.

BARBARA: Retired ranch foreman. Olivia was an actress and in town to audition for a play at the Pioneer Theatre. The King and I. She was a singer and dancer, too.

BRIAN: How was your relationship withn her?

BARBARA: I loved Olivia. Mom and dad loved her. She was wonderful.

She seems captured by reverie. 

BRIAN: A drive around Lake Tahoe.

Snapped out of it, she smiles. Brian takes her hand.

BARBARA: Hunter has a selfie she took of them at Zephyr Cove. A fire near Spooner Lake redirected their way back to Reno through Carson City, where they had dinner, danced and ended up spending the night in what was then called The Pony Express Hotel. 

BRIAN: Ages?

BARBARA: Olivia was twenty-two. Olivia had just gotten her theatre degree from Cal State Fullerton. Tom, we know now, was twenty-seven. They had breakfast the next morning, drove back to Reno, Tom dropped her off and continued on to Mexico.

BRIAN: No exchange of information.

BARBARA: Not that I'm aware of. 

BRIAN: No birth control.

BARBARA: Olivia used a diaphragm. Ninety-four percent success rate.

She smiles.

BRIAN: What?

BARBARA: I'm remembering Hunter telling me that's why he wore number six in high school baseball.

Brian grins. 

BRIAN: What position?

BARBARA: A few positions. He pitched a year at a junior college in Orange County. 

Her PHONE BEEPS. She picks up and stares at the screen.

BARBARA (cont.): Another one.

She hands him the phone. Chloe's selfie includes Hunter, Jackie and Tom at the Sierra Blanca Viewpoint.

BRIAN: I reckon cowboy alright. 

BARBARA: Jackie's pretty. Isn't she.

BRIAN: She is. How are you folks with this?

BARBARA: Protective of Chloe first. Chloe's report alleviated initial anxiety. I think. Happy for Hunter. Assuming.        

BRIAN: My dad finished Foglost.

BARBARA: And.

BRIAN: Does or did Hunter drink?

BARBARA: Did. 

BRIAN: He looks fit.

BARBARA: He's come a long way. Ready?

Brian nods. 

mountain meadow 1: Hunter and Tom

Horseback, side by side, trailing Jackie and Chloe, who trail Sess and Claire. 

TOM: How often do you get to see Chloe?

HUNTER: Her spring breaks, the last few weeks of her summer vacation, every other birthday weekend and whenever I'm in L-A .  

TOM: You and Barbara on good terms?

HUNTER: We are. We talk at least once a week.

TOM: What does she do for a living?

HUNTER: She's a photographer. We met at the same newspaper we worked for.

TOM: Are her parents livin'?

HUNTER: They are. Jan and John. Retired attorneys in Paso Robles.

TOM: Well that ain't too far from San Luis Obispo, is it?

HUNTER: Half-hour drive, and there's a train. Ever been in the area?

TOM: Closest was Pismo Beach 'bout a thousand years ago.

HUNTER: What were you doing in Pismo Beach a thousand years ago.

TOM: Knew a fella who got me a job doin' some wranglin' work on a movie.

 HUNTER: Really?

TOM: Yessir.

HUNTER: What movie?

TOM:  It was called Cattle Creek, a western.

HUNTER: I don't know that one.

TOM: Never got released. Heck, didn't even really get finished far as I remember. Ran outta money. But it was a good time in the six weeks it lasted. Anyway, me and this fella, Mike Lawler, drove up in his Impala and stayed a few days. Did some deep sea fishin'.

HUNTER: Catch anything.

TOM: Halibut, rock cod. Ever do any fishin'?

HUNTER: No. Do you still fish?

TOM: I do. Got some good trout water near home and me and a friend'll take his boat out on Medina Lake when we're at Ruth's.

HUNTER: Fly fishing for trout?

TOM: Yessir. 

HUNTER: Who taught you to tie and cast a fly?

TOM: My grandad. Dad's father, Willie. He had a friend with some Guadalupe river frontage. Think you might be up for fishin' sometime?

HUNTER: Yes. I would.

TOM: Well then we will.

HUNTER: Alright.

meet Barbara, John and Jan

EXT. CAFE PATIO - DAY

Barbara, 50-ish John and Jan, mid-70s..

JOHN: Do we know where exactly they're riding horses.

BARBARA: North of Ruidoso, end quote. Jackie's family has land and her cousin manages one of the stables in the area.

JAN: Do we know what Jackie does for a living?

BARBARA: History professor at New Mexico State. From whom Chloe received a letter last week.

JOHN: Speaking of which, are she and Hunter going to meet the Arizona coach?

BARBARA: No. Just walk the campus, check out Tucson.

Jackie's PHONE RINGTONES TYPEWRITER CLATTER. She picks up after the ZING OF RETURN.

BARBARA (cont.): Hey.

(Her face expresses surprise as she listens.)

Hunter, I trust your judgment.

They're right here.

Okay.

You or Chloe take a picture, okay?

Can't wait.

Bye.

(She pockets phone.)

JOHN: Take a picture of what?

BARBARA: Whom, dad. Tom Walker from Texas is at Hunter's house. He's spending the night and leaving in the morning. Chloe will call tonight.

They look at each other. WAITER arrives. 

Tom calls Wanda and Ruth, meet Daisy

Wanda and Daisy walking downtown Laramie, day. Daisy re the biodegradable urn she's found re Clem's ashes. A goose she'll set on a lake in the Snowy Range. She stops them at the WYO THEATRE, remembers a date with Clem and the movie. Wanda recalls similar with Tom.

Wanda's PHONE RINGTONES (If I Needed You). She answers.

Tom calling with the news, from Hunter's guest room.

WANDA: Call me tonight and take a picture.

Tells Daisy:

Tom met someone he knows. Staying overnight in Las Cruces.

Tom calls Ruth with Gil in Fredericksburg with peaches.

GIL: Hijole. 

Tom looks at guest book, leaves into hallway. BOOTS ON HARDWOOD fade away. 

The window at the desk looks to the back yard and frames Tom when he arrives at the low stone wall and gazes at the Organ Mountains.

Silly Interlude re Timeout today

 

Feel the need and necessity and know the benefit of a break when it's time.

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Howdy finalish form

EXT. HUNTER'S FRONT PORCH - DAY

Tom has made the U-turn back to Hunter's house, rung the doorbell. Hunter, after his double-take through door's peep-hole, has opened the door just enough to peer out at Tom.

HUNTER: Can I help you?

TOM: Howdy. My name is Tom Walker.

Hunter sizes him up and down, looks past him to the truck parked on the street near the bin.

HUNTER: Tom Walker from Texas who was in Reno for the rodeo fifty-two years ago?

TOM: Well, one of 'em anyway.

HUNTER: What's my mother's name?

TOM: Olivia, if I have the right Hunter Hardyn.

HUNTER: How did you find out about me?

TOM: Went online to do a search for uour mother. Found her obituary. Seen she was survived by you, and your daughter. Went online, looked ya up, found your wiki page, seen your date a birth. Did the math. 

HUNTER: When was this?

TOM: It'll be eight years the second a November.

HUNTER: Just happen to be in the neighborhood?

TOM: Sorta. Passin' through on my way to Texas.

HUNTER: Passing through from where, if you don't mind me asking.

TOM:  You can ask me anything ya want. On my way to my sister's house from where I live with my wife in Laramie, Wyomin'.

HUNTER: You found my address online?

TOM: Yessir. Paid a few dollars for a search.

HUNTER: What if I didn't know who you are?

TOM: I'da been a little turned around and askin' for directions to Drippin' Springs Road. 

HUNTER: I'm out the door on my way to the airport in El Paso to pick up my daughter.

TOM: Yessir.

HUNTER: You'll be passing back through on your way to Laramie?

TOM: Yessir, in a week or so.

HUNTER: We won't be in here in a week.

TOM: Yessir. 

Hunter surveys Tom, finally opens the door wider, motions Tom in. Tom removes his hat, enters. Hunter stares at the truck, closes the door. 

Silly Interlude re Sarah

 

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scene 4

wanda, with daisy, re the move and brick house, gets call from tom in ABQ motel room, tom call ruth.

scene 3/credits

INT. TRUCK - DAY

CREDITS OVER:

Tom, sporting aviator sunglasses, drives on a two-lane highway surrounded by open grassland populated by Angus cattle. Far-off ranch house and distant mountains beyond. Colorado plate on the pickup truck ahead of him, loaded with hay bales. After awhile he turns on the RADIO TO STATIC. He tunes to MORE STATIC, then finds GLEN CAMPBELL'S COVER OF THE SONG GALVESTON. He smiles, turns it up, sings along.

Scene 1 Final

INT. BEDROOM - NIGHT

TOM and WANDA, mid-70s, sit up in bed, under the covers, in pajamas, reading. Both wear glasses. Curtains closed across the window above the headboard. Lamp, eyeglass case and phone on their respective nightstands. Wanda peruses a Hawaiian Travel brochure. Tom is reading a grey hardcover book we can see is titled Foglost and written by H.C. Hardyn. His wedding band is gold, her diamond-on-silver modest.

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: Now that's some halfway thinking alright.

TOM: You think this ol' dog ain't got one more trick in him?

WANDA: I'd pay to see it.

TOM: Won't have to. Got 'em down the beach from our hotel. You just pull up under an umbrella with your Mai Tai, stick your toes in the sand and watch me hang ten.

Pause. Tom turns a page.

WANDA: Hmm. Maybe I'll take a hula lesson.

TOM: You know I'll be front and center for that.

Wanda does a hula dance move with her arms and hands. Tom smiles.  

TOM (cont.): So whaddaya reckon the chances are we'll get lei'd.

Wanda, shocked, sets down the brochure, stares at Tom, who finally looks at her.

WANDA: Thomas Travis Walker, my goodness gracious.

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

She shakes her head.

WANDA: Yes, that's what they're called. But I'm not sure our airline does that.

TOM: Oh.

She returns her attention to the brochure, Tom his to the book.

WANDA: However I feel there's a good chance we will when we get to our hotel.

Tom looks at her, closes book. She looks at him, winks. He smiles. She puts brochure on her nightstand, Tom sets the book on his. Each reaches for and turns off their lamp at the same time.

BEDSPRING SQUEAK IN BLACK.  

the perfect title

 

it isn't Boots and it isn't Honda Knot but it will come to during the timeout i'll commence now to let this gestate before beginning Finally Final blog, perhaps as Untitled. Almost there after so long.     

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."

Act 3: beats 39 - 76/Epilogue

39. Hunter's dream.

40. Kitchen, coffee, Tom reveal, tells Chloe.

41. Wanda with Daisy gets Hunter's call.

42. Ruth gets Wanda's call.

43. Gil with Maria gets Ruth's call.

44. Hunter and Chloe watch coroner truck drive away.

45. Barbara, John, Jan, Brian on golf course. Barb gets Hunter's call. "Chloe's coming home."

46. Jackie gets Hunter's call.

47. Hunter and Chloe.

48. Wanda and Daisy, Laramie airport.

49. Gil and Ruth.

50. Doc gets Hunter's call.

51. Chloe, Barbara, Jan, John driving. Hunter's itinerary re Kerrville.

52. Gil, Ruth, Wanda.

53. Night. Hunter and Jackie in bed.

54. Next day. Hunter leaving in the truck. Sunglasses.

55. Brian with his dad, son, re meeting Hunter re - surprise - marrying Barbara.

56. Wanda and Ruth, Hunter arrive.

57. Chloe, Barbara, Ruth, John, boat, Lake Nacimiento. What do we know about Ruth? Chloe ties a Honda knot.

58. Gil with Maria re "tomorrow." 

59. Night. Wanda, Ruth, Hunter, table talk, Paso Robles wine.

60. Chloe in her room watching Tom video gets call from Hunter in Ruth's guest room. .

61. Next day. Ruth, Wanda, Hunter driving. Re Gil, arrive Mendoza gate.

62. Gil on deck. Truck engine, arrive. Maria and the boys watch intros through window.

63. Fort Park. Hill Country mesa view. Hunter, Gil, the boys, ATV's. Family history, the land re G.I. Bill, his father and uncles. World War 2, Vietnam, his photos. Lunch call.

64. Maria, Wanda and Ruth in the kitchen. The ATV's. 

65. John and Jan re when in Austin.

66. Night. Wanda, Ruth, Hunter, rai, thunder, Ruth's peach ice cream, Hunter's backstory.

67. Gil in den,. Bangkok selfies. 

68. Next day. Hunter leaves in truck.

69. Hunter driving. Flat. Glove compartment. Manual, registration and insurance, WY and TX fishing licenses.

70. Barbara and Chloe. 

71.  Flat fixed.  Assistance. "My father's last truck."

72. Hunter's guest room. Enter Hunter with boots and hat. The guest book.

73. Doc. Re Hawaii.

74. Leaving Laramie.

75. Hawaii.

76. Chloe birthday truck.

CREDITS OVER Hunter and Gil FISHING.

scene 19: Truck and Jackie

EXT. HUNTER'S DRIVEWAY - DAY

Sunny day. The GARAGE DOOR OPENS to reveal Hunter, Tom and Chloe. Hunter and Chloe in hiking boots and jeans. Her ballcap complements her pink long-sleeve tee with PISMO in white across the front. Backpack slung over a shoulder. Hunter's sunglasses atop a fishing cap, raglan-style tee with sleeves a different color than the body. Tom is cowboy per usual. He follows Chloe toward the truck. Hunter gets in the Range Rover, backs it to the street.

CHLOE: Nice truck.

TOM: Ya like it?

CHLOE: Cool two-tone.

TOM: Ain't the original paint but it's the same colors.

Tom fishes key from pants pocket.

CHLOE: What year model?

TOM: Eighty-seven.

He opens the driver's door.

CHLOE: Did you buy it new?

He gets sunglasses from visor sleeve. 

TOM: No. My dad did. This was his last truck

CHLOE: Really? 

TOM: Yes ma'am. 

Hunter parks on the street, gets out, approaches Tom and Chloe. 

CHLOE: Love the bench seat.

TOM: That ain't original either. And a course it didn't come with the satellite radio. Put that in a few months ago.

CHLOE: No G-P-S.

TOM: It's in the glove compartment.

Hunter arrives.

HUNTER: What's in the glove compartment?

TOM: G-P-S. 

HUNTER: That might've helped you find your way back to Dripping Springs Road.

Hunter winks. 

TOM: Yessir, I reckon it woulda.

CHLOE: This was Dale's last truck.

HUNTER: Really?

TOM: Yessir. Paid cash for it and drove it off the lot in Fort Worth on his way back home with friends from a Cowboys game.

Chloe's attention is drawn down the road.

CHLOE: Yonder comes a car.

Tom and Hunter turn to see the nearing car coming from the direction Tom had. Its form suggests convertible.

HUNTER: Heeere's Jackie.

Hunter walks to the street, Tom closes the truck door, stands next to Chloe as they watch Hunter, in aircraft marshalling style, direct JACKIE, 50ish, the driver of the early-90s Alfa Romeo Spider, top down, to the driveway and garage. She parks in the Rover's spot, puts sunglasses in shirt pocket, gets out with backpack from passenger seat, quick kiss with Hunter, who takes her hand. She's fit, in jeans, cowgirl boots, long-sleeve blouse, SKI APACHE ballcap. 

JACKIE: And I was nervous about meeting Chloe.

HUNTER: I think everyone's a little anxious.   

Hunter leads her to Tom and Chloe, Tom removes his hat.

HUNTER: So. Chloe, Tom, it's my pleasure to introduce you to Jackie. Jackie, meet Chloe and Tom.

Jackie and Chloe shake hands.

JACKIE: Chloe, it's good to meet you.

CHLOE: Good to meet you too, Jackie. 

Jackie and Tom shake hands.

JACKIE: Tom, I'm so glad you're able to come along.

CHLOE: My great fortune, Jackie. Thanks for havin' me along. Thank all y'all.

HUNTER: So. Shall we?

JACKIE: Let's.

Hunter activates the GARAGE DOOR CLOSING, leads the group to the Rover.

JACKIE (cont.): We have another late addition, by the way. My cousin's girlfriend will be joining us.

HUNTER: The more the merrier. 

At the Rover Hunter takes Chloe's and Jackie's backpacks, puts them in back. Chloe gets in back, Tom follows her lead, Jackie in front passenger seat, Hunter behind the wheel. He starts the engine, drives away.

Act 2: beats 19 - 38

Act 1

19. Next morning. The truck and Jackie. 

20. Wanda and Daisy.

21. Rover, re horses.

22. Gil and Ruth.

22. Sess and Claire, Rover arrive.

23. Barbara and Brian. Retired ranch foreman. Chloe selfie.

24. Horses in the pines.

25. John and Jan. Chloe's selfie.

26. Mountain meadow.

27. Doc 1. Hunter selfie.

28. Uphill 'round the bend with vista. 

29. Wanda and Daisy, Tom's selfie with Hunter, Daisy recognition re author. 

30. Pinus Ponderosa. Bonanza. Tom's belt buckle to rodeo to Vietnam. Cowbell.     

31. Gil finishes Foglost. Maria asks about it. 

32. Creek crossing. Re trout and fishin'.

33. Ruth and family tree.

34. Honda Knot. 

35. White Sands at sunset.

36.  Night. Arrive Hunter's, J leaves, shooting star.

37. The Tahoe tale. I'ma call mom.

38. Tom calls Wanda and Ruth. Guest book. 

Silly Interlude re Veronica

 

I reckon so.

this ridiculoustupid post will evaporate tomorrow morning.

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Act 1: beats 1 - 18

1. Night. Tom and Wanda, Foglost, Hawaii. 

2. Next morning. Truck, Tom leaving.

3. Gil, Maria re Tom, Wanda, Ruth move. Tom's Huey selfie.  

4. Sunset. Tom arrive ABQ motel, call Wanda and Ruth.

5. Sunrise. Tom leave ABQ motel.

6. Tom driving, Hunter's 'hood, GPS, Organ Mountains.

7. Hunter home office, Chloe pic(s). Hunter kitchen, July calendar, trash bag.

8. Tom arrive Hunter's, idles, drives away when Hunter comes out through garage. Tom U-turn.

9. Hunter foyer, doorbell. Howdy, Tom in.

10. Barbara with John and Jan, Hunter's call re Tom Walker.

11. Wanda with Daisy gets Tom's call from Hunter's guest room. Guest book. 

12. Ruth Fredericksburg peaches, Tom's call.  

13. Chloe and Hunter. 

14. Gil with Maria gets Ruth's call re Tom's layover.

15. Hunter, Chloe arrive, intros, how Tom found him.

16. Barbara and Brian, re Tom and Olivia. Chloe picture.

17. John and Jan re middle name, Barbara's forwarded picture. 

18. Night. Hunter, Tom, Chloe, patio post-dinner. Hawaii, surfing and wrangling a horse. 

rewriting re finding Final Form

Hilary Barrett: 

"Subtly penetrating means becoming part of something, or someone. You penetrate subtly by feeling your way into things, yielding gently to their nature. You shift your own ideas and expectations, and come to understand the situation from inside, on its own terms. And so, as you allow things to shape you, you also reach a place where you can shape them. The old Chinese character for 'Subtly Penetrating' shows a stand bearing the official seals a ruler would bestow on those he trusted. Someone who bows down and accepts a seal is submitting to the order of things, entering in and receiving his place within it. Then his seal, sign of personal authenticity, endows him with influence and the power to 'make his mark'."

about Ruth

Chloe with Barbara, Jan and John. 

JAN: What do we know about Ruth?

CHLOE: We know she was a high school teacher in Johnson City, Texas, then a junior high administrator in Tulsa, where she met her husband, Ed, who was a petroleum engineer. She was thirty when they married. They had a son, Charles. Ed and Charles died on Charles's fifteenth birthday when their Cessna crashed on the landing strip of a ranch they'd flown to for a deer hunt. Ruth sold their house and traveled in Europe for a year, lived in Maine for two years then moved to Bandera when their mother, Opal, was diagnosed with breast cancer. She died five months later. Their father, Randy, died from a heart attack a year and a day later. Ruth moved to Alaska, lived there for three years, then bought the house in Kerrville. No relationships after Ed that Tom knew of. She started painting a few years ago. The pictures on his phone indicate a very quick learner.  

meet Barbara, Jan and John dialogue

PLAYING SCRABBLE.

JOHN: Do we know where they're going horseback riding?

BARBARA: Jackie's family has land north of Ruidoso. She has a cousin who manages a riding stable.

JAN: Do we know what Jackie does for a living?

BARBARA: History professor at New Mexico State. From whom, by the way, Chloe received a letter last week.

JOHN: Do we know if Chloe is meeting an Arizona coach, by the way.

BARBARA: She is not. They're going to walk the campus, hang out in Tucson for a couple days.

JAN: Do we know where they're staying?

BARBARA: We do not.  

Barbara's PHONE RINGTONES TYPEWRITER.

BARBARA (cont.): I'll ask.

(into phone) Hey.

Her face expresses surprise.

(cont.) Hunter, I trust your judgment. 

They're right here.

Alright. 

Okay.

Bye.

(sets phone down.)

Tom Walker is at Hunter's house. He's spending the night.