He swam the Cumberland River. All 696 miles. He did it to save something. I think he did it to save his childhood.
Here are the beginnings of a city’s story and they can be difficult to see. For these parts of a city’s story are shy. Nashville: A city revealed not in grand gestures but in whispers.
Jimmy asks people when he meets them, “What does your ministry look like?” People misunderstand him. Jimmy is a religious man but he isn’t asking a religious question. He is asking you what good will you are doing? He is asking how you live.
A NASHVILLE ORIGINAL
(don’t run me out of town with torches… yet)
The summer the two girls were 9 and 11, they lived on their own.
Rose on the eve of destruction–in Nashville’s Preston Taylor Projects
