mushin no shin

so here we go;
sorry I haven’t written much here lately. I have no greater excuse than simply not having been in the right frame of mind.
Well. Don’t know when I’ll be back, but I’m here. And it’s Saturday night, after Christmas. It’s been a decent one. Thursday with the dad, brother, and brother’s family, at [...]

I can’t link directly to it, because of the Tennessean’s god-awful web design, but on this article about the fairgrounds hubub, commenter Jablonski suggests:

Proposal: State Fairgrounds should be converted to a park for the under-parked Neighborhoods of South Nashville. Revenues to compensate for NOT putting the property on tax rolls as HCA’s new HQ, would [...]

Commenter njmccune nails it on the fairgrounds controversy:

If this place had been maintained properly and attention had been paid to landscaping and maintenance it would be a local icon and would continue to operate.
If it was making lots of money and still looked as bad as it does it would be a local icon and [...]

The Nashvillest has the latest scoop on the fairgrounds redevelopment issue. Particularly they point us to the marketing research group contracted to study the issue.

Walked over to Coleman for the Flatrock Festival opening ceremony. Heading back over there shortly, but just wanted to share this great quote from the ceremony (paraphrased from memory) …

I’ve been in the Woodbine community for 36 years, and people always ask me, “Why on earth do you live in Woodbine?” — and now I [...]

After enjoying the Flatrock Festival this Saturday, you can come back next week for the Música de le Gente / Music of the People Festival:

A festive and FREE celebration of Mexican-American music will be presented by American Roots Music Education and Metro Parks and Recreation on Saturday, May 31, 2008 at the newly renovated [...]

I’ve been meaning to post about this, so before I forget again —
This Saturday, May 24, 11:00 AM – 8:00 PM at Coleman Park is the Hands Together In Flatrock Music And Arts Festival. From the presser:

In an effort to encourage interaction, greater understanding and tolerance among the older residents and the new immigrant [...]

More great news for Flatrock:

Coleman Community Center Grand Opening2:00 p.m., Saturday, May 3
Coleman Park Regional Community Center
384 Thompson Lane
Nashville, TN
Phone: 862-8445
Please join Mayor Karl Dean, Council Lady Anna Page and Metro Parks to celebrate the opening of this new state-of-the-art regional recreation facility.
The $5.5 million facility is an innovative state of the art, community center. [...]

This isn’t so much a fully formed thought as a reminder to myself to fully form one –
From a discussion on the LPTN list: their candidate for House 58 posts a press release basically in favor of letting the racetrack @ the Fairgrounds do whatever the hell it wants, whenever the hell it wants. I [...]

I feel your pain, Béz.
My part of town is totally on the grid — except for my street, which they decided to skip for some reason. It’s like getting picked last for kickball all over again. But if you could turn down this street here, you’d literally be a stone’s throw away. Well, if it’s [...]