Revenge

In my humble opinion one of the best westerns ever made is Tombstone. Written by Kevin Jarre, the dialogue is some of the most brilliant and honest I’ve heard. The dialogue the Doc Holliday character recites about Johnny Ringo resonates with me. It pains me to say it, but I can understand Ringo’s angst. Doc Holliday says to Wyatt Earp, “A man like Ringo has got a great big hole, right in the middle of himself. And he can never kill enough, or steal enough, or inflict enough pain to ever fill it.” Earp asks, “What does he want?” Holliday tells him, “Revenge.” I’ve felt that way a lot over the last six years. I just want revenge. It pains me to see how much my brother suffers and to watch the bad guys get away with it. It pains me because I know an unforgiving spirit binds me to the abuser. I may think that in order for the person to be punished, I need to remain angry, but all I’m doing is hurting myself even more. I want to get past it, but the more Rick slips away the more I struggle with the command to forgive. It’s a daily fight and I’m just tired of it all. Thank God I have my work. I’ve started to fine tune the chapter outline for the Sam Sixkiller book. I’m anxiously awaiting copies of the case files he kept to arrive from the National Archives. I can begin writing once those get here. Picked up a couple of copies of the August edition of True West magazine. The ad for a few of my book are in that edition. I’m pleased with the way it turned out. Thanks to Cattle Kate’s for teaming up with me on the advertisement. Continued prayers go out to Brent Harris and his family in Dodge City. Hope he’ll be up on his feet again soon. On this day in 1873, corrupt law enforcement officer Happy Jack Morco participated in a quarrel with Ben Thomson that resulted in the shooting death of Sheriff C B Whitney in Ellsworth, Kansas. Whitney was a participant in the Battle of Beecher’s Island against the Sioux in 1868. Happy Jack let his anger and drive for revenge get the better of him. It didn’t end well for him. Jack was shot in the head by a fellow policemen.