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Let us briefly interrupt the California recaps to write up the weekend –

• Thursday — 3rd meeting in the South Nashville Planning process. Pretty uneventful. They showed us maps marking out their proposed changes to the land use policies (not zoning, but the guidelines that encourage zonings) and basically just made sure we were cool with it all. It does look like they want to take more design issues into consideration along Nolensville Pk, and move more of the Nolensville/Thompson intersection & Armory/Sidco areas from industrial use to public commercial. All Very Good Things. They also gave us a handout which I suppose we’re going to discuss at the next meeting which indicates some proposed roadway changes — notably including one that I’ve been begging for, connecting Armory to McCall/Antioch Pk, giving us another route across the railroad and making it easier to get to 100 Oaks & I-65. Woo-hoo! Too bad they can’t make all the connections I’d like to see, but this is the big one.
• Friday — The Constant Wife presented by ACT1 at the Darkhorse. Another comedy of manners — very touching & verry funny. Kay Ayers-Sowell as Constance and Martha Manning as her mother were particularly engaging.
• Saturday afternoon I decided to try a produce run at the K&S World Market. Most of the produce seemed very good, though maybe not up there with Plumgood — but it’s priced accordingly. Two bags of veggies & a package of tofu for $13? Nice. The real trick of course will be learning how to make use of some of their more exotic offerings. Although I think my next run is going to be at the Mediterranean grocery on Thompson that Lesley has recommended. We’ll see how it compares. It’s much closer, and I could easily bike to that one. Once I buy a bike, that is.
• Saturday night was a real treat, the Chinese Arts Alliance of Nashville gave us an amazing bit of theater that combined dance, martial arts, music, poetry, and storytelling — I hate to gush but damn it was wonderful. That’s all I can say because no description I could give would do it justice.
• As for today, I’ve got a lawn to mow. And this afternoon I think I’ll take in the inaugural meeting of The Bhakti Yoga Society — not sure what to expect from that, we’ll see I suppose.