Earlier this year, I read The New York Regional Mormon Singles Halloween Dance: A Memoir. It was completely hilarious and I highly recommend it. One of the stories was about how the author would always say yes to something if she could, and the adventures that resulted. So that got me thinking about what I say yes to and what I say no to. Were there more things that I could and should be saying yes to? More adventures and experiences, if only I would say yes?
Well, one day, as too-often happens, I was aimlessly poking around the internet. One link or another lead me to the website The Bloggess and the traveling red dress project. In a nutshell, putting on a bright red dress can be an audacious act of self-affirmation (for more on the project, start here, then continue here). Intrigued, I clicked through to their Facebook page. Seeing the generosity of the people involved – offering to send dresses, soliciting red dresses on behalf of friends, photographers offering up their services to capture a red dress moment – I was inspired to say yes to this project. I posted my contact information, not sure whether it would disappear into the Facebook ether if I would have a number of requests.
I received one e-mail.
In the e-mail, D. wrote to me, telling me she was trying to get a red dress and a photographer for one of her best friends, K, who’d been through some difficult times. And K’s story – it’s not mine to share. But I can share some pictures of that afternoon, when the two of us took a little leap of faith, and said yes to the red dress and each other.
