As I sit here reflecting on this past weekend, listening to The Picard Song and eating some chips and salsa, I can’t help but think what an amazing few days it has been. The weather has been perfect, I played a lot of disc golf, and most importantly, Friday had perhaps the best First Friday experience I’ve ever encountered.

My evening started at 5:00 PM when I rode my bike down to the College of Design to check out the student work, as well as the things posted by Alumni of the College as part of their 60th Anniversary celebration. Studio Collective was Friday, and as part of the celebration, they had a competition to see who had the best looking bikes in the following categories: Scraper, Fixed Gear, and Open Category (anything goes). All this explanation is really just setup for describing the bike ride – due to a ‘perfect storm’ of conditions (bike competition at studio crawl, beautiful weather, great shows, First Friday, a scavenger hunt), First Friday was hopping like I’ve never seen it!

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There are few streets in Raleigh that have such a diverse array of inhabits as Enterprise Street has. Sadlack’s Heroes (above) and the North Hall Dormitory anchored on the Hillsborough Street end work with the North Carolina Nurses Association and Bank of America on the Clark Avenue side to sandwich together an unlikely group of structures and inhabitants.

I must admit I’m incredibly partial to this street, as I’ve lived in a neighborhood adjacent to it for the past 3+ years. Many nights I’ve taken my dogs for a walk to the patio at Sadlack’s for a few beers and enjoyed the view or traveled to the Bell Tower Mart to pick up a few beers for back yard drinking.

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When a friend of mine (who juggles for Acroentertainment) mentioned that there was a juggling workshop/club that met every week, I was interested but far from optimistic about the likelihood of learning the art with any success.

The experts in the group demonstrating lit torch juggling

Hand to eye coordination is not something I’m known for, and juggling certainly requires that and more. While I’ve admired the talent of jugglers as well as was entertained by it, I believed it was something I could never learn. This all changed after one evening at a workshop in the Method Community.

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