Touching back with 'The Longest Ride'

Our Longest Ride

     'The Longest Ride' a book by Nicholas Sparks came out just after Charlie went to Heaven, and I loved reading it.  Everything from the big FORD pick-up to holding hands and reading his lovely letters, was included in this movie.   Charlie was an Ag and English major from MSU, so his cards and letters were poetry in the making.   Call me "old school" as Luke, or Scott Eastwood(gorgeous) says in the movie, it was fun to see an old-fashioned romance.  It was a 1940s love story  paralleling with a modern-day love story including a ranch and art dream.   For the first time, I loved the movie more than the book, as the relationships flowed together better in the movie than separated by chapters.   Brit Robertson, as Sophia(a beautiful young lady) has a relationship with Ira that you can see grow, better in movie than in the book.   A wonderful 'chick flick for sure, with great cinematography on the bull-riding and the country settings as well as real 1940 flashbacks.  Alan Alda as Ira says, love is complicated, not always happily- ever -after;  love requires sacrifice,…but it's worth it.  My review would say, There is a God and thank you for the signs you send me.

2 hands up for TIME

       After the movie, I proceeded to find all the cards/ letters Charlie wrote to me and then wrote down a few of my thoughts.  With tear-filled eyes, I remembered all the good times we had together.  "I love you babe."  "I love you more!"  fills my ears.

riding Along the Missouri Breaks

      We use to say our longest rides were at the PN ranch, where the dogs would have to travel at least, 50 miles to our 25 mile horse-back rides.  Those were our cowboy days.  Long, tall Charlie astride his horse so calm and still in his size-twelve, Bowman cowboy boots with spurs, wrangler jeans, button-down shirt, card-hart jacket, scarf and silver cowboy hat sitting astride a big tall gray horse, like a perfect silhouette upon the largest landform, called the Missouri Breaks.

    Now, I know he is having his longest trails up in the sky, "Uphill and into the wind," he'd say.