watching tv

Last night, Saturday, we caught a television series streaming on

Amazon. It caught both our attention. And imagination.

It was a western called YELLOWSTONE, something you don’t

catch often on TV these days. Its shot in eye-catching Montana.

It seems Paramount paid a bundle to produce; full of cattle

and horses who charge around with a cast who seem to be out-

numbered by them.

The owner is John Dutton a beleaguered cowboy, owner of

the Dutton Ranch which spreads itself beautifully, visually across the

the home screen.

He has his hands full keeping the bad guys from stealing his cattle.

And that’s only a small part of his dilemma.

Writer’s comment: From what we learned later it had a massive

following last night of viewers. It stopped us from sneaking off to

the kitchen for the usual nightly snack.

CHALLENGE ONESELF

It’s good exercise, challenging yourself both the mental and physical.

Putting yourself out there, knowing there might be consequences.

I think back to a scary moment when, being freelance, I talked my

magazine editor into me writing about a first parachute jump.

Mind, I wouldn’t get paid, he said, if killed myself.

There I was 3.000 feet up in a small plane with my buddy yelling at me

when I hesitated, “Jump, God damn it! Jump!”

A static line opened the chute split seconds or so ,after I left the small

the airplane. I was tumbling in space yet with no sense of motion.

Then bang. I looked up to see the chute billowing above me.

The same friend talked me into two more jumps the following weekend.

Author’s comment: I‘ve done nothing like that ever since. That was some time ago. Other

challenges have come along. None quite so dramatic. Yet, I get my heart pumping one

way or another. It’s good for me. And you.