I came across this movie at a used bookstore while on the lookout for some movies that would fit in my collection. I picked this up and immediately held onto it because it was a western thing with that starred Edward James Olmos front and center. I expected action and a solid story. What I got was a tremendously moving and sad tale of what amounts to just plain old racism making one man’s life hell.

I got to see this on the big screen, and it was spectacular.

I’m a product of seeing this on television once a year through my childhood, and as a result, this has always been one of my all-time favorites. But it’s an entirely different experience to see this on the big screen, watching what I presume is the 4K print (it sure looked like it) or better.

While the movie is so beautiful, I was captured by the inability to rewind and take a second look at something. The result is a bit more magical, if that word applies. I couldn’t prove to myself that I saw what I thought I saw in a couple places, and the not knowing for sure leads me to think they meant it to be there.

Today’s Blognauary prompt: “What do you complain about the most?”

The answer is easy. The implied improvement following such recognition isn’t.

Today’s Bloganuary prompt: “What are your favorite sports to watch and play?”

Here is another that finds me in a state of change.

Today’s Bloganuary prompt: “What would you do if you won the lottery?”

This is an interesting week for this question to come up. I’ve been working to re-frame how I view my day to day life.

Elect a cowboy hat-wearing sheriff as governor, get cowboy hat-wearing sheriff bullshit when they govern. If you are still a Republican, you are complicit.

Senate candidate Sam Brown endorses Trump for president

I didn’t expect different, but it hits when they say it out loud.

I can walk you through a maze of reasoning when asked about my favorite foods. What a terrible question, making me choose among all the great things I’ve had the pleasure of eating over the years. It honestly feels cruel.

Today’s Bloganuary prompt: “Do you spend more time thinking about the future or the past? Why?”

There’s virtue in both. I view myself as someone who at the very least strives to be self aware. Your mileage may vary with regard to how I’m doing at that, but it’s something I actively work on.

My biggest stressors on a daily basis are related to my management of my time, and how I feel I am losing more and more of it to obligations. My mornings are currently scheduled in a way that has forced me to give up an activity or two that I should be doing. I just don’t have the time in the morning to do them along with the other things I have committed to doing. In the evening, I have other obligations that occupy my time until well into the evening in general.