There is only ONE real
original John Wayne
.."TRUE GRIT" movie
extant in the world, unless
we throw in Hepburn,
in "ROOSTER COGBURN,"
in which Rooster makes
us hungry with his
corn-bread "Corn Dodgers."
"True Grit..." guess we've
seen it half-dozen-times-
and "Cogburn" almost as many.
(Glen Campbell was.great
in "Grit," and remember
when the chatty girl...
rolled into the pit
with the rattlesnakes!)
Ah, but there is MORE to
my muse this day, and
it all depends on WORDS.
It's the"GRIT" that set
me to thinking---
Have your heard about
all this "WASH YORE HANDS"
thing ..... that's going around?
We've always done it anyway,
(Of course when I was driving
a big Orange Case tractor,
plowing at Ranchvale in the
Forties, hand-washing was not
THE MAIN GOAL.
In fact you got dirty...all over.)
So anyway we ordered this four-
bottle- box of Irish Spring
liquid soap from Amazon. and
guess what--it had: GRIT,
in it... not GRAVEL...but
true grit--no mistake
about it. But we grew to love
that green grit soap!
But there's more! Somehow,
some way, who knows--
in the "great scheme,"
as they say--I found myself
"warshing" my hands with
a neat little WHITE BAR
of hand soap! I MEAN--
it was splendid!
Sir down for this....TA DUM!!
IT HAD GREAT GRIT.
"What brand of soap is that?"
I exclaimed excitedly to BE.
"We've got to lay in a six-bar
pack!"
"I don't know what's the brand
or where we got it," she
shrugged.
We opened several random bars
of hand soap, accumulated over
time...and wet them a mite...
Ah, but none had GRIT.
GRIT is a priceless , rare thing---
Good to have in our movies,
Good to have in our soap,
and in these times...
Good to have ...in our souls.
MIL'S PLACE
8/22/20
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