I’ve been watching a lot of movies set in the 1800’s lately. Reading True Grit by Charles Portis may have something to do with this. Cold Mountain is an old favorite of mine; caught it on HBO one night last week. I love the character Ruby Thewes, played by Renee Zellwegger.

“They call this war a cloud over the land. But they made the weather and then they stand in the rain and say ‘Shit, it’s raining!”