The Yeager Road Diaries: The Actress and the Cowboy

This is how stories begin and end, with a smile, with tears, and with the truth.

Once upon a time there was a young actress in Hollywood California. She was the star of live theater and made two appearances in film. The film roles were small and focused on her spectacular bosom. Years went by and the actress travelled the world, alone, and in the company of others. Her life was an adventure, but she never knew it. What she believed was that she was the luckiest person alive, what she didn't know was that she had yet to meet the luckiest person alive. Over those years, her fortunes rose and fell. She was engaged a half-dozen times and dated movie stars and directors. She was a small fish in a very big pond.

There was a man in this story, there always is. The man was rich and powerful and had known her all her life. Off and on through the years, she would drift back and forth into his life and he into hers. He's not the hero of the story, because it's not his story, it's hers.

There came a time when things got bad for the actress, her debts racked up, she got in trouble with the law (nothing major, but big enough), and she ran away from her life. She went to Italy to find the answers and for a while, she was happy.

The truth of life is that you can only run away for so long and the past will catch you. You can fight the current, but the stream will carry you where you are meant to be. For a short season, she escaped her fate and then the current turned and she ended up in Marietta, Georgia.

Time and life and a bad turn in Italy took her money. The airlines lost her belongings. All she possessed in the world were a few bags of clothes. When the universe wants to get your attention, it takes away everything you hold dear and leaves you naked to face the world. That's when she met the cowboy.

When the actress met the cowboy, she didn't know what she was in for. Yes, he was charming and fun, but he was honest and honorable and a lot of other things she had never encountered in Hollywood. And while the actress thought she was brave, she had never had to be brave before, because she had never faced herself. The cowboy met her on the road of life and helped her face her fears. He put her feet on the path she was supposed to go and he sent her on her way.

You see, this was the cowboy's job. This was why he was here, to help people get where they are going. He was an agent of change and when he shows up, everything changes for the better. The last words he said to her the day he put her on the airplane was: "When you get there, make the hard choice."

And she did. She stopped running, because now she could face the things she was running from. The actress found what she was looking for in California. The Cowboy got her where she was going and he watched her walk into the sunset and waited for the next lost traveler along the road...

We could call this the end, but, as we know, nothing ever ends...