How do I connect all these disparate thoughts into a sense of coherency? I moved to Nashville the day after my High School graduation from Clarksville High School in 1981. I lived in Nashville from 1981-1995 when my wife and I moved 20 miles south to the town of Murfreesboro because we felt it offered a safer environment and better schools for our children plus it was closer to my work. I grew up in a middle or upper middle class home but when I first moved to Nashvillle one of the first things I noticed was the amount of money in this city. People everywhere seemed to have money to burn and there are swaths of Nashville which are replee with huge mansions - one after another for mile after mile. In this song, Elvis Costello says, The salty lips of the socialite sisters with their continental fingers which have never seen working blisters. Oh I know they have their problems. I wish I was one of them. This song came out the very year I moved to Nashville. Clarksville nor Murfreesboro is not without its wealthy class but when it comes to West Nashville and the neighboring county of Williamson, we are talking a whole new ballgame. An entirely different existence. Yesterday at lunch at Bella Napli pizzeria, we overheard a random conversation; The Grizz are playing the Knicks on my birthday. Lets go up to New York and see the game. We can come back the next day. Talk about upwardly mobile. Whether I go to East Nashville, West Nashville or any of the places we like to visit we hear comments like this. Who can just, off the cuff, say lets go to Paris, or London, or New York? But thats the Nashville I have always known. It is a very wealthy place filled with people from around the world. I make well above the National median income, yet, you know, I still struggle. I live comfortably but do not live an extravagant lifestyle. I aint hip. I aint cool. I work for a living and have always worked hard for a living and that work has come at a physical price. We drove through Nashvilles Gulch yesterday and it has been about a year since I have been there. So many parts of Nashvlle are virtually unrecognizable because of the new constructionl. Its really phenomenaland I noticed that a beautiful old Victorian home had been torn down around Music Row to make way for some development. So sad but thats Nashville.- ever changing. On the one hand you are excited to be a part of all this growth, yet, on the other hand I prefer being being an hour distant in more scenic landscapes where things are not so quick to change. What am I trying to say? I have no idea. Have a good day.
Posted on: Sat, 27 Dec 2014 17:56:21 +0000
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