mushin no shin

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 [...]

Via PITW we learn of one man’s quest to make the fairgrounds green.
From some of the discussion I heard during the South Nashville planning process, I fear it’s a quixotic cause for the immediate future, but I applaud and encourage the effort. For some time I’ve envisioned a day when the fairgrounds could become something [...]

BEST NEXT HIPSTER HIDEAWAY: WOODBINE

Let me start by pointing out for obvious reasons that I don’t think an arrest record means jack in and of itself — not when our laws have little basis in reason or rightness. Further I do believe that even those who commit real crimes should not necessarily suffer the burden of their history forever, [...]