| | Are you sitting down? Most of you who know me will terribly surprised at the following information. I attended the Country Stampede...No there was not a gun to my head, my children were not being threatened by a madman, I went of my own volition. Free will is an amazing thing, sometimes it is not so free. So I got these 4 tickets to Stampede at work and gave them to 3 people I know who really enjoy Country music. It didn't work for the one friend to go Saturday night, and Katie was too wiped out from the weekend to want to go Sunday, so rather than have Kim not go, or go alone, I volunteered to go with. We had Church, then a meeting at 5 so we didn't get out there until about 7. Terri Clark started playing at 8. People where leaving like crazy as we were pulling in and that did not seem like a good sign, but yet we paid our 10.00 for parking and entered. CS is held in the river pond area of Tuttle Creek State lake and it is beautiful there, but my first shot upon arrival was a line of about 30 port-a-potties that emmitted an interesting aroma. I was thinking that this was not a very good set up for the crowd to see as they arrived to the event from a marketing viewpoint, but then soon realized that very few people who attend the CS actually would care. I am not even sure how many of them actually used the "facilities" with so many trees around.
Terri Clark is an interesting young lady. She can actually play the guitar fairly well and though I did not appreciate the genre much I did appreciate her lead guitarist and really all of her support musicians, except for the steel guitarist. This would be the crux of why I dislike contry music so much-the twang of that steel guitar. But her message was probably what bothered me the most. She said she left home for Nashville at 18 and it's been a party ever since. She encouraged binge dinking and getting drunk "for the hell of it". Not the message I really wanted a bunch of impressonable teens to hear as they were preparing to drive home for the night. But Terri Clark probably had no more influence on the crowd than any of the musicians, or vendors. Just some random thoughts on the Country Stampede from my one and ONLY participation.
I mentioned that Katie was tired from her track meet. She (we) sat in Overland Park all day Saturday, from 7:30 am to 5pm and she didn't even get to throw the discus, it was rained out. One of the most ineffciently run meets I have ever been to. I have told some friends that The Overland Park Track Club owes me a Saturday. I would like to take it tomorrow.
Exciting things happening witht the church. We are proceeding with the bulding and hope to have a new multi-purpose area built by winter. Yeah baby. Basketball, rock climbing wall.
Still kind of wondering what my role at church is now. Still have that burden for people struggling in homosexuality and past abuse relationships. I think you would be amazed to realize have many people have been molested, abused or raped as children. I know I am.
Anne jackson has a great article in relavant magazine this month on women and pornongraphy. I will try to add the link a little later today. http://relevantmagazine.com/
Have a blessed day, much love,
s
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