The new counterculture lives in the middle.

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Looking southwest at dusk from the roof top bar at ACME Feed & Seed. Lower Broadway runs up the hill from the bottom left with the crosswalk at Second Avenue in the foreground. Photo by Chuck Allen in Nashville, TN, on Aug. 24, 2023.

We Are Music City

Nature provided a surround sound of music as I tended to the mundane. The “over” watering of mint to smell its fresh, vibrant fragrance was

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Storytelling Town

Words made this town. Words in novels, history books, and poetry. Ann Patchett, Jon Meacham, and Tiana Clark are names that many readers recognize, their

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Not tracing time …

I’ve been thinking about change a lot lately. Not the kind that rattles in your pocket, but CHANGE. The big kind. The kind that’s always

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