This week I learnt how to do dreadlocks. This is a skill I hope I can use again. I also learnt know how to maintain them. My friend Dave decided he wanted dreads and my other friend Karen did them for him and she taught me how. It is really kind of fun. All up it took us 14hours over two days.
What else happened this week? It was really lovely to have dinner with David and Lesley on Thursday night. They were very generous and shouted my dinner because I had no money. I nearly wasn’t able to go but it was nice they convinced me to come anyway. We ate yummy Korean. I hadn’t been there before. It was nice to go somewhere different. Between Lesley and David TEAR is going to have a more functional computer system.
Also the ex prime minister of Haiti visited Urban Seed this week. Pretty amazing. She now does peace keeping stuff and there is a guy in Urban Seed who is really involved in peace activism so she came and chatted with us. She was beautiful and I told her so. The only problem was we invited some of the guys from Credo to come along whom, I think, quite like violence. Lucky the ex prime minister of Haiti would have seen heaps worse than a few obnoxious guys from Credo. I think the non violence movement needs a new name. People hear the words non violence and then seem to only understand of the movement what it is not rather than what it is.
A new name may help the movement, definitions of violence can be less clear then we may think – physical violence is obvious but other forms may not be perceptable unless analyzing deeply, such as the violence of idealogies being pushed, exploitation, manipulation… these things do not fit under what we ordinarily define as violence so the real concerns can be missed.
The guys may have learned something even though it looks otherwise.
‘A rose called by another name would smell just as sweet’
Whats important is not the movement, terms or discussions.
i always wanted dreadlocks. dont think it works on asian hair though!!
hope you are tops gem
Years ago an asian friend of mine had dreadlocks, it can work if your hair is long enough and compliments your clothes.