Another Visit to the Eye Surgeon and a Great Concert

Unfortunately Amber's Lasik recovery didn't start too great. Last night, her right eye got very teary and by the morning her eye lid was swollen to the point where it was hard for her to open it. Headed down to the eye clinic and the diagnosis is that it was just inflammation (not good, but better than an infection). The eye surgeon lifted the flap and rinsed out the inflamed cells so that it can start to heal better. Even with the problem, she was seeing 25/20 out of that eye (left is at 20/20). The silly girl then decided to go to work since she didn't want to just sit around at home.

Rewind to last night. We went to the etown radio show concert/recording. Not the best night given Amber's lasik, but a high school friend was performing. If you would have asked me slightly over a year ago to name a classmate of mine that would be singing and playing the banjo for multiple groups focusing on bluegrass/old time with some of the songs in Chinese, I don't think the name Abigail Washburn would have ever come up. Fast forward from high school to present day and we have seen her perform now as part of Uncle Earl and with the Sparrow Quartet. The Sparrow Quartet is Abigail, Bela Fleck, Ben Sollee and Casey Driessen (4 total), but recently they have gone by Abigail Washburn and the Sparrow Quartet, shouldn't that mean that there are five total. Anyways, their show was great. Since it a radio show, you get interviews and such done which reduces the amount of music, but the audience did learn that Abby and Bela have a lot of configurations.

So it was good to see the Sparrow Quartet who were the headliners, but maybe the better guest was Vusi Mahlasela. He's from South Africa and was an activist against apartheid. He spoke about the community he grew up in (and still lives in) and the need for forgiveness. And his music was great.

Enough rambling for now...