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SUMMARY:Magnolias\: Magnolias and Magnolia
DESCRIPTION:We love magnolias in Nashville. My favorite Music City magnolias are the ones around Music Row on a street called Magnolia near Belmont College. Big magnolia trees line both sides of Magnolia and  let me know we’re in the South.\n               I grew up with flowers. My grandmother was an extraordinary rose gardener. She and her friends would have daily rose competitions in the summer. She was from Alabama. We called her “Dear” and that’s a magnolia name for a grandmother if I ever heard one\, but Dear didn’t do magnolias.\n              Dear always loved to exhibit her flowers with water and I do too. When I was a child her rose garden boasted a goldfish pond she had had dug and cemented. In my Detroit\, black ladies grew roses Back in that day\, everybody black knew\, yellow roses were the proper colored ladies flower. Dear grew plenty many yellow roses. Me I grow pink-almost-orange roses and almost wild flowers and I think about magnolia blossoms and Magnolia.\n                 Magnolia is also the name of a 1999 film by Paul Thomas Anderson. I loved the movie Magnolia. The very existence of that movie Magnolia argues for the existence of such a thing as a southern movie.\n               Everyone agrees there is such a thing as southern literature. Few agree there is such a thing as southern film. Of course there are iconic films about the South\, think Gone with the Wind and Steel Magnolias\, but both of these are Hollywood movies with Hollywood aesthetics. For me a southern movie would have to convey\, not just depict\, a sense of the ineffable. There’s got to be enough religion. Just enough family. Just enough concern with class and caste. And the past. And there’s got to be something sufficiently gothic about the joint.\n            Craig Brewer’s Black Snake Moan and Hustle and Flow are wonderful southern movies. Honeydrippers is an almost southern movie about a juke joint in the South.\n              The Christmas we first moved into this house\, a friend gave me a basket she thought had been used to cradle the babies of the enslaved while they worked the fields. She brought us the basket because she knew we loved history. She brought it filled with magnolia leaves.\n              Magnolias are large. They are bold. They are not fragile. They are beautiful. They are abundant. They eclipse lesser realities. They are a part of the prettiness of the south and the landscape of our living room. They have a redemptive quality. I could make a southern movie about that field baby basket full of magnolia leaves.\n
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