Dreds, Estrogen, and the Symphony

DREDS
Friday Zoe came into town to attempt to finesse my silver dining room wall. Its better, but not as we had hoped. Thanks Zoe. She was also really here to pick up some furniture of my parents I had saved for her. That evening Zoe, Danny, and I went to "Stammer!" to support Lauren performing 2 poems. Stammer is a Raleigh arts/poetry/performance event. Danny and Lauren went together once last spring -- this was the first experience for Zoe and I. Let's just say it was basically the 4 of us who DIDN'T have dredlocks. There was a variety of "acts" -- many very talented spoken word artists and all definitely out of college or older crowd. So when Lauren reached the mic and introduced herself and that she was a senior in high school, the crowd was surprised. Let me be the first one to say that she brought the house down. It was a scary place to do that --- I am proud that she was courageous to perform. And it was so cool to be the non-dred section cheering her on!








ESTROGEN
To give Zoe the complete other opposite end of the spectrum experience in Raleigh, Saturday morning we met up with Sue at her church for their 1/2 day Women's conference: "Being a Woman of Joy." There were plenty of "joyful women" there --- I'm working on being one (ahem). It was a typical women's conference. The praise and worship, the pink flowery programs, and a lot of blonde hair. I'll just say I don't think I saw one person with dreds there. Go figure. The best part was the workshop that Zoe and I attended by a chemistry professor at NC State (we'll forgive her for not being a Tarheel). She talked about memorizing scripture and she blew us away. Not only has she memorized 6 books of the new testament, she shared such practical and encouraging methods by which to memorize. We were so inspired, challenged but not overwhelmed by the idea of memorizing so much scripture.

One of the funniest things she said was that she starts every morning during the 3 minutes she is "regular." Now I have really NO excuse...... I am trying to email her and get her notes and will post them on the blog.

SYMPHONY
Zoe left around 4 on Saturday and after a short nap, my husband took me on a date! Its been forever. We went to a pan-Asian place well known in Raleigh called the Duck and Dumpling. Food was yummy! We then walked across the street to Moore's Square to set up our lawn chairs to listen to a free concert by the NC Symphony. Best of call I finally got to wear my maxi dress that has been waiting for its debut. The rest of the night Danny I were stupid and kept pointing out every woman with a maxi dress on. The concert ended with the Symphony playing the theme to "Star Wars." NICE!