YEAH, BLOGGING WAS A LITTLE LIGHT TODAY: I stored up some scheduled posts and then went to Nashville and back to attend a memorial service for my friend Bob Simms, who died earlier this week. Bob played guitar for a band called The Soul System, which got some regional fame back in the 1960s, went to Sewanee and Cumberland Law School, and then worked as counsel for the Tennessee Senate Judiciary Committee for over 3 decades. I met him when I interned for that committee in college and we kept in touch. Doug Weinstein and I saw him in the hospice last week and he wasn’t doing well, though he recognized us and seemed glad to see us. Still it’s a shock.

There was quite a turnout of Nashville notables — Sen. Doug Henry was the very first person I saw on the way in, and he seems largely unchanged from when I was in college — but what was most impressive was the turnout of extended family and childhood friends. Quite a few partners from his brother’s law firm turned out, too, which I thought was a very nice touch.

Bob was a terrific guy, and the world is diminished by his loss.