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Ten Things I Love About Memphis (In no particular order)
1. Overton Park—specifically the Old Forest (duh)
2. Two degrees of separation (Sometimes less! 99% of the time I love running into someone I know, or know of, everywhere I go.)
3. The Broad Avenue Water Tower (I see it every time I look outside my window or go out of my front door. Our version of Punch Buggy has expanded to include the water tower. I love hearing Jiro squeal, "Punch water tower bluish green! 2 million points for me!")
(Top photo stolen from the Internet)
4. The Cove (Where everybody knows my name...and they're usually glad I came. Currently I am obsessed with the Mermaid Salad and Tuaca.)
(Bottom photo from the CA))
5. WKNO (Especially when I get to lay in bed and listen to it on Saturday and Sunday morning with Warren.)
6. Memphis Rock-n-Romp (It just gets better and better thanks to all of the awesome parents and musicians in this town!)
7. The riverfront (It's fun to watch it flood, skate by it, watch fireworks go off near it...you name it, it is better by the river.)
8. Evergreen Montessori School (I wish I went to a school like this!)
9. The weather (Yes, even when it snowed on my wedding day!)
(Photo by Melissa)
10. My house (Even when the sewer breaks!)
Funny how most everything on this list is no more than a few miles away from where I live!
10 comments:
Guess I'm number 11?
you were in the top ten til you moved out my 5mile radius!
Only by a mile and a half.
I really thought your awesome friends would be on that list. In the top ten things I like about Memphis, Friends and Family are the first two entries. East Memphis is third- East Memphis what!!!
i wasn't thinking of people as things really--y'all know i love you!!
Did your husband make the top 20?
Like I said--I wasn't really counting PEOPLE.
If you look at the Smart City blog and Gates of Memphis you may get a better idea of the spirit behind this exercise.
OK- my comment wasn't actually an ego trip! I truly do always think of friends and family first when I think of what I like about/why I still live in Memphis. I struggle with a love/hate thing, but I feel if it weren't for the friends and family then there wouldn't be enough other things to keep me here. I don't know- sometimes I love it here, sometimes I hate it. Maybe I should see if I can come up with ten non-person things of my own!
yes, do it!
Love the list!!
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