Day 22, August 24

Day 22, August 24

After breakfast and devotions and prayer, we decided to take this Saturday and drive over to Asheville to see a movie.  That is the nearest cinema.  We found one showing The Butler at 1:05 pm.  I suggested that we leave mid-morning, find a different place to walk, eat lunch and be there when the movie starts.

While Kay was getting ready, I sorted and filed a box full of personal papers.

The place to walk turned out to be the Folk Art Center just off of the Blue Ridge Parkway.  I’ve always heard about it but never been there.  The juried crafts reminded me of Berea, Kentucky.  In fact, they had some weaving from Berea College Crafts. 

The movie . . . well, you have got to see the movie.  It is about growing up black in a white America.  There is juxtaposition of the lives of a butler at the White House, going along and getting along, and his son, a Freedom Rider risking his life and jail to demand freedom and equality.  A great irony is that Jane Fonda played Nancy Reagan!  This movie tells a story that anyone over 55 remembers and that all should know.  It should be watched by groups of mixed race and then discussed frankly.

We stopped in Black Mountain on the way back for two of our favorite places, Kilwin’s ice cream and Town Hardware store.

Tonight, DB was not such a hard master.  Rather, he lifted up the variety and importance of Christian community.  I look forward to being in a worshiping community tomorrow morning, on the first day of the week.  It is a place I have never been, but I expect I will find it familiar and filled with the kind of wonderful people who hold church together.