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Ep. 1104 Review: How to Say Goodbye

 (cross-posted on Facebook—with some additional comments.)

Too many viewers have already mentioned the whole “Mongolian” horses vs. “Norwegian Fjord” horses discrepancy, so I won’t harp on it. To a non-horse-literate person like me (to my detriment), I would have been none the wiser about the breeds had I not been informed the horses used in the episode weren’t actually Przewalski’s horses, so I wasn’t bothered by it. Had this episode been a novel I was reading, the story would stand up on its own just fine. Can’t fault the crew of Heartland for not being able to get an actual *endangered* wild horse breed on the show. A genuine wild horse breed would be impossible to receive direction from the wranglers. ‘Nuff said.

Moving on. “How to Say Goodbye” is another excellent episode from Heather Conkie. The main horse problem this time around is Attila, the wild stud a man named Alan Shore is hoping to ship back to Mongolia for breeding purposes. Attila refuses to allow himself to be put in the shipping crate. Enter Ty and Amy. Ty, possibly due to his connections in Mongolia for last year’s (*cough*ill-advised*cough*) trip; Amy, due to her “way�� with horses, even wild ones. She asks for the horse to be sent to Heartland so she can work with him; Alan agrees to let her try.

The second plot line of note is what’s been going on in Casey’s family, namely the untimely passing of her brother, Curtis. He leaves behind his second wife, Jen, and his two sons, Wyatt and Brick. Yes, the same Wyatt who blew into Georgie’s life for one episode last season. Jen & Sons have moved to Hudson to live with Casey. Wyatt shows up at Heartland to see Georgie, as she’s the first “Hudsonite” he wanted to see. He finds her practicing her jumping with Flame, and is impressed. Georgie is unsure of what to say to the guy, but leads with the “I know what you’re going through” line, and says if he ever wants to talk, she’s there to listen. Wyatt balks at this. Why would he want to talk? He’s clearly in denial about his dad’s death, refusing to show it or acknowledge his grief. He believes everyone’s just acting phony, and alienates Georgie for trying to help. Young tyke Brick is no better, as his mother says he’s “regressed” after Curtis’ passing. He’s uncommunicative and silent, despite even Jack’s efforts to coax him out of his shell.

Third plot follows up on Lisa’s financial distress. She’s been practically ignoring Jack and cancelling out on all kinds of lunch-dinner-any-together-time-whatsoever the whole week. This leads Tim to ask Jack during yet another cancelled dinner what’s going on; Jack won’t betray any word about his wife’s struggles, but claims instead he’s doing just “great” on his own. Unfortunately, Lisa picks that very moment to walk into the house. She hears Jack’s emphatic proclamation that he’s fine all by his onesies and she seems quite crushed. Lisa tells Jack she can’t stay for dinner as she’s dropped by only to pick up some things she needs. Jack hustles after her and demands to know what’s going on and why she’s been avoiding him. Tells her that even if he can’t help her, he can at least listen to her problems. (That’s what married people are supposed to do, right?) He concludes by saying he needs her and misses her. Lisa is skeptical on this score. After all, didn’t he just tell Tim he’s doing “great” on his own? Jack has no reply to those unfortunate and ill-chosen words; the two part company on that sour note.

Other minor plots:

Georgie’s struggles with the double-oxer (she keeps knocking over the last rail), and she frets Val will kill her if she can’t make the jump at the competition in Okotoks that weekend. Ty is being “courted” by a vet school pal of Bob’s. Jonah has been helping with wolves injured by overzealous cullers in British Columbia. Bob himself has been treating wolves wounded right in Alberta. They all agree the cull has gone way too far; they’ve been overwhelmed by the number of wolves shot and left to die. Bob seems quite jealous of the attention Ty has received both from Alan Shore and Jonah, wondering perhaps why *he* hasn’t rated on either man’s list when he’s done everything Ty has done (perhaps more).

Plot line One follows the predictable “Miracle Girl” formula for Amy. (We all know she’s going to find the solution, right?) She intuited right away that Attila was experiencing separation anxiety. The mare and foal she saw at Alan’s preserve were indeed Attila’s mate and offspring. He was agitated when he couldn’t be near them. So, Amy asks Alan to ship mama and baby to Heartland, too. Alan reluctantly obliges. When she still can’t achieve the success she’s looking for after making the mare and foal visible to Attila, she returns to an old remedy: using the sense of smell. She rubs a baby blanket on both horses, then takes it to Attila so he can catch their scent. Once the blanket is in the crate, Attila is fine in there, too. Problem solved! Alan is extremely thankful to both Ty and Amy for their good work.

Plot Line Two delves into the heart of the episode, which is of a family in deep mourning over a lost husband and father. Widow Jen is bearing up well, but she’s concerned for step-son Wyatt and biological son, Brick. She speaks meaningful words about how the unexpected can be right around the corner; how things go from great to terrible so suddenly. Her “deep thought warning”: Don’t take anything for granted. Her words seem to especially affect Lisa, who’s no doubt contemplating her own sudden financial (and relationship?) woes. 

Things take another sudden turn when the selectively mute Brick goes missing from the jumping pen. Georgie was supposed to be “minding” him when Wyatt showed up. The little tyke had begun tugging on Wyatt’s hand to go see Attila; Wyatt responded with impatience to “go find your mom” (which I found harsh at the time). Georgie told the kid to head to the house, and he seemed to reply he would. Except he didn’t. Side Note: Amy and Wyatt share some words about losing a parent while observing Attila and speaking about the issue of separating him from his mate and foal. It’s one of the first times I can recall Amy having a very pointed conversation about grieving her mom in an attempt to connect with someone suffering a similar loss. (I wish we’d seen more of both Amy and Lou mourning Marion throughout the seasons, but we’ll take what we can get.) After Jen notices Brick is lost, everyone goes into search mode, combing the surrounding woods and property of Heartland. Wyatt feels particularly guilty for brushing off his half-brother the way he did. Casey does her best to assure her sister-in-law she’s not the worst mother in the world and that they’ll find the kid.

Jack and Lisa are off searching another area when Lisa gets text that makes her grimace, which Jack notices. He demands she come clean about what’s bugging her, and she finally does. First, her Toulon tenants have skipped out without paying rent, so she’s stuck trying to find someone else; she’s also lost a buyer for her best breeder horse. They’re problems she says no one wants to hear, but Jack begs to differ. That’s when they hear sobbing coming from the outhouse. It’s Brick, who’s been hiding in there and crying. Jack coaxes him out by telling him when he’s hurting, that’s when he needs his family the most. It’s another little speech Lisa takes to heart, realising that keeping quiet about her problems is not the way to go about it.

At the Okotoks competition, Georgie sails over the double-oxer jump and secures a second-place berth. Val’s predictably happy with the clean finish (but I’m sure second place won’t make her happy when the Fall Finale comes).

Over at the preserve, Ty tells Bob he’s going to B.C. to help Jonah with the injured wolves affected by the cull; he manages to convince Bob to join him, despite the latter’s initial surly mood about feeling snubbed. (No idea how long Ty will be away on this next mission; Bob just makes him promise not to get sick; Ty’s apparently a drag when he gets sick.) Back at Heartland, Lisa shows up with luggage in tow, surprising Jack. She tells him she’s come to a decision. With all she’s been coping with recently, (a lot!), she admits she does need him: his hugs, his listening ear; to know he’s by her side at night… So she’s hoping she can move in with him. Jack happily agrees. So here’s to the happily married couple that love to do things bass-ackwards: Congrats on taking the “next step” in your relationship, Jack and Lisa! Long time coming.

At the end of the episode, Amy, Ty, Georgie, Wyatt and Brick gather to watch Alan trailer up Attila to take him off to transport to Mongolia. As the trailer drives off, little Brick takes Amy’s hand and utters his first real sentence since his dad died: “’Bye, Attila.”

It’s too much for Wyatt. The dam breaks, and he has to hustle off to cry in private. Georgie follows after him. Overwhelmed with sadness and grief, Wyatt tearfully comes to terms with the reality that his dad is really and truly gone. Georgie wordlessly puts a comforting hand on his shoulder.

Side note: Dempsey Bryk does an expert job the entire episode. He plays upbeat, nonchalant, petulant, dismissive, in-denial, regretful, and finally grief-struck with remarkable sensitivity and purity. He had me tearing up as soon as it sunk in that he’d been avoiding this boatload of emotion when Brick uttered his “’Bye, Attila” line. It was great. It was moving. I really look forward to seeing more from this young actor on Heartland.

[confessions-heartland]

“The beginning and end of this season felt like two different shows. We lost, like, half the characters by the mid-season finale: Brick, Jen, Cass, Caleb, Adam, Olivia, Casey, Avery ... All people that I thought would end up being relevant to his season and then *poof*. And that's not counting Lou, Katie, Ty, Peter, ... You know, the family this show is supposedly centred around“

[callmeblake]

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[heartlandians]

Is Wyatt a McMurtry ? If Jen is Casey’s sister I would say no. Any idea ?

I don't think he is. Jen's late husband was Casey's brother, so Casey and him had other last name than McMurtry, let's just call them Smiths for this example. Casey got her last name from Hank, her husband. So when Casey and her brother (his name escapes me now) were little, they were "Smiths". When Casey married Hank, she became a McMurtry. Meanwhile her brother married a woman who became Wyatt's mother, Mrs. Smith (or she kept her own last name). Wyatt would have become Wyatt "Smith" (or is it possible to have his mother's maiden name in Canada?). Mrs. Smith died and then Mr. Smith, Casey's brother, got together with Jen. She either kept her own last name or took the same last name as Casey's brother and Wyatt, if they were married with Mr. Smith (I think they were, right?). Jen, Brick and Wyatt's last name (Casey's maiden name) has never been mentioned on the show.

[lifements-blog]

Reto de Lectura Rory Gilmore

Sé que llego tarde a este reto de lectura pero nunca me había animado a tomarlo, lo descubrí hace años no recuerdo donde y ahora que me topé con el de nuevo en  BlackWhite Read Books y queria intentarlo.

Gilmore Girls fue una gran parte de mi adolescencia vi todos los capítulos más de una vez y me identificaba con Rory, su amor por la lectura y su vida cotidiana, es una serie que siempre vivirá en mi corazón y es más que una serie para mí, me enseño muchas cosas y me ayudo con muchas más.

El reto de lectura consiste en leer todos los libros que Rory leyó a lo largo de la serie, los cuales son muchos, entre ellos existen muchos clásicos como Alicia en el País de las Maravillas y El Diario de Anna Frank, la mayoría de libros en esta lista no están siquiera en mi lista TBR la cual es otra de las razones por las que quiero intentarlo, la lista consiste de 339 libros por lo que no me pondré propósitos irreales como leerlos todos durante este año (2016), en dos años o en cinco, simplemente me propondré terminar esta lista algún día y divertirme con ella.

Marcare mi progreso en este post y quizá haga una reseña de ellos, los mencione en mis libros del mes o en GoodReads pero primordialmente será aquí.

Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J. K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling

Hamlet by William Shakespeare

The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

Inferno by Dante

The Divine Comedy by Dante

1984 by George Orwell

A Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays by Mary McCarthy

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

A Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare

A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers

A Monetary History of the United States by Milton Friedman

A Month Of Sundays: Searching For The Spirit And My Sister by Julie Mars

A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway

A Passage to India by E.M. Forster

A Quiet Storm by Rachel Howzell Hall

A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf

A Room with a View by E. M. Forster

A Separate Peace by John Knowles

A Streetcar Named Desiree by Tennessee Williams

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

Adventures of Huckleberry by Mark Twain

An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser

Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

Atonement by Ian McEwan

Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy

Babe by Dick King-Smith

Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women by Susan Faludi

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie

Bel Canto by Ann Patchett

Beloved by Toni Morrison

Beowulf: A New Verse Translation by Seamus Heaney

Bitch in Praise of Difficult Women by Elizabeth Wurtzel

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Brick Lane by Monica Ali

Bridgadoon by Alan Jay Lerner

Candide by Voltaire

Carrie by Stephen King

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White

Christine by Stephen King

Complete Novels by Dawn Powell

Complete Stories by Dorothy Parker

Cousin Bette by Honore de Balzac

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Cujo by Stephen King

Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende

David and Lisa by Dr Theodore Issac Rubin M.D

David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol

Demons by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

Deenie by Judy Blume

Don Quixote by Cervantes

Driving Miss Daisy by Alfred Uhrv

Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales & Poems by Edgar Allan Poe

Eleanor Roosevelt by Blanche Wiesen Cook

Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters by Mark Dunn

Eloise by Kay Thompson

Emily the Strange by Roger Reger

Emma by Jane Austen

Empire Falls by Richard Russo

Encyclopedia Brown: Boy Detective by Donald J. Sobol

Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

Ethics by Spinoza

Europe through the Back Door, 2003 by Rick Steves

Eva Luna by Isabel Allende

Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer

Extravagance by Gary Krist

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Fahrenheit 9/11 by Michael Moore

Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World by Greg Critser

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson

Fiddler on the Roof by Joseph Stein

Finnegan’s Wake by James Joyce

Fletch by Gregory McDonald

Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

Franny and Zooey by J. D. Salinger

Freaky Friday by Mary Rodgers

Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut

Gender Trouble by Judith Butler

George W. Bushism: The Slate Book of the Accidental Wit and Wisdom of our 43rd President by Jacob Weisberg

Gidget by Fredrick Kohner

Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen

Goldilocks and the Three Bears by Alvin Granowsky

Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders by Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry

Henry IV, part I by William Shakespeare

Henry IV, part II by William Shakespeare

Henry V by William Shakespeare

High Fidelity by Nick Hornby

Holidays on Ice: Stories by David Sedaris

House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III

How to Breathe Underwater by Julie Orringer

How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss

How the Light Gets In by M. J. Hyland

Howl by Allen Ginsberg

I’m With the Band by Pamela des Barres

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee

Iron Weed by William J. Kennedy

It Takes a Village by Hillary Rodham Clinton

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare

Just a Couple of Days by Tony Vigorito

Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain

Lady Chatterleys’ Lover by D. H. Lawrence

Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis

Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke

Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them by Al Franken

Life of Pi by Yann Martel

Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Living History by Hillary Rodham Clinton

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

Macbeth by William Shakespeare

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

Marathon Man by William Goldman

Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter by Simone de Beauvoir

Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman by William Tecumseh Sherman

Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris

Mencken’s Chrestomathy by H. R. Mencken

Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

Moby Dick by Herman Melville

Moliere: A Biography by Hobart Chatfield Taylor

Monsieur Proust by Celeste Albaret

Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

Mutiny on the Bounty by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall

My Lai 4: A Report on the Massacre and It’s Aftermath by Seymour M. Hersh

My Life as Author and Editor by H. R. Mencken

My Life in Orange: Growing Up with the Guru by Tim Guest

Myra Waldo’s Travel and Motoring Guide to Europe, 1978 by Myra Waldo

My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult

Nervous System: Or, Losing My Mind in Literature by Jan Lars Jensen

New Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson

Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich

Night by Elie Wiesel

Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

Novels 1930-1942: Dance Night/Come Back to Sorrento, Turn, Magic Wheel/Angels on Toast/A Time to be Born by Dawn Powell

Notes of a Dirty Old Man by Charles Bukowski

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

Old School by Tobias Wolff

On the Road by Jack Kerouac

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Oracle Night by Paul Auster

Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood

Othello by Shakespeare

Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

Out of Africa by Isac Dineson

Peyton Place by Grace Metalious

Pigs at the Trough by Arianna Huffington

Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi

Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Property by Valerie Martin

Pushkin: A Biography by T. J. Binyon

Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw

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Writing With Plain Brick

Let’s never stop repeating the importance of writing with simple clarity.

Everyone wants to be overly complicated and make a name for themselves by going viral.

But you and I are going to keep it simple and learn a craft over a few decades of practice – aren’t we?

I don’t want a flash in the pan!

I want to build something worth building!

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[the-real-tc]

Names

It’s been discussed before, but... Can Jen, Wyatt and Brick be given surnames, already?!

We know they are not McMurtrys because that was Hank McMurtry’s name (and therefore Casey’s married name); Jen and Casey are connected through Casey’s deceased brother, Curtis.

[the-real-tc]

lis4ever

Yep, my gut feeling was right 😊 I'm also curious to see the relationship between Casey and her sister, both of them widowed. And little Brick looks like a cute mini-cowboy. Wonder if Katie's back?

I’m also curious to see Casey’s relationship with her sister. I also want to see how Tim reacts, since he was clearly grumpy when she wasn’t around (remind you of anyone?).

But I have to ask: what kind of name is “Brick”? Call me crazy, but do people actually name their kids this? Or is it a nickname? To me, that’s like naming your kid “Stick”, or “Bottle”, or “Shelf”. Like, it’s fine for a surname, but a given name? 

I do agree he’s a cute little cowboy, though. He’ll probably love living in Hudson, and I can anticipate he’ll become fast friends with Katie.

[heartlandians]

It’s not great (my app was limited), but I made a kind-of family tree to try & visualize how Casey’s family (that we know about) looks.

As LB pointed out- Clay’s dad is probably Hanks brother, because of the last name, but it’s also possible that he’s actually the son of Hank’s sister. Either she never changed her name & they decided Clay would have her last name or… maybe she never actually married? We don’t really know anything about Clay’s parents, do we?

So, as far as aunts & uncles go- I would call Casey & Hank their aunt & uncle. I refer to my parents siblings and their sibling’s spouses that way.

However… I’m not sure if Clay and Wyatt are cousins? I never understood the 1st/2nd cousins thing, but maybe that applies?

To me- my sisters kids are my nieces and nephews. My husband’s sister’s kids are my nieces and nephews. But, I don’t refer to my sisters kids as being cousins with my husband’s sister’s kids. (Is this getting confusing yet?) They’re all cousins to MY kids, but not each other.

So does anyone have any insight on how “cousins” work? I mean, maybe if the kids are/were all close with Casey & Hank and spent a lot time together, then they’d call each other cousins for simplicity sake? Submitted by: heartlandmusings _________________________________

Thanks for this! I’m kind of writing something Casey related into a fic and I’ve been trying to figure out what her family (close and extended) is like, for example, how come Clay was into the rodeo thing and Wyatt is clueless about horses - how does that reflect their family life and that way Casey’s past. What was Hank like and how did Clay and Wyatt get along with him - you know, stuff like that.

I also mapped out something on paper before asking the question and wondered if Wyatt and Clay could really call each other cousins, like maybe there was something I was missing. Because from my experience, if Casey and Hank had kids, they would be Clay’s cousin’s, not Casey’s brothers kids (Wyatt and Brick) as Casey is “related” to Clay through Hank and Curtis is not “related” to the McMurtrys in any other way - his sister just happened to marry one. 

So, I checked just so I had my facts straight:

Clay says in 10x15: “This is my cousin, Wyatt”, when introducing him to Georgie in the woods. I tried to check the credits, but they didn’t list him, so I don’t know if he had a last name attached (and I don’t have credits for 11x04, it cut right after Wyatt said his dad really was dead). In 10x03 Casey says (when referring to Clay): “My nephew just moved into town”. 

Wikipedia says: “A cousin is a relative with whom a person shares one or more common ancestors. In the general sense, cousins are two or more generations away from any common ancestor, thus distinguishing a cousin from an ancestor, descendant, sibling, aunt, uncle, niece, or nephew.“

Does that... apply...? I’m so confused, haha.

[heartlandians]

Help me out as I’m trying to understand this:

Casey married Hank. Hank is McMurtry, so after marrying him, Casey became McMurtry too. Clay is from Hank’s side (most likely his brother’s child unless Hank had a sister who kept her last name) as he’s Clay McMurtry. Wyatt is from Casey’s side of the family, so Wyatt is not McMurtry and neither is Brick, Jen and Casey’s brother/Jen’s late husband. So at this point, we don’t know the last name of Wyatt, Brick, Jen and Casey’s brother (his name escapes me), right? 

It’s just confusing to me, because in Finland, we don’t call the one our relative married aunt or uncle, they are just “the relative’s” spouse, and Clay has called Casey her aunt, if I remember right.