From: les@jmdl.com (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2002 #17 Reply-To: joni@smoe.org Sender: les@jmdl.com Errors-To: les@jmdl.com Precedence: bulk Unsubscribe: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe Archives: http://www.smoe.org/lists/joni Websites: http://www.jmdl.com http://www.jonimitchell.com JMDL Digest Wednesday, January 9 2002 Volume 2002 : Number 017 The Official Joni Mitchell Homepage, created by Wally Breese, can be found at http://www.jonimitchell.com. It contains the latest news, a detailed bio, Original Interviews, essays, lyrics and much much more. The JMDL website can be found at http://www.jmdl.com and contains interviews, articles, the member gallery, archives, and much more. ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: Bush Fires NJC [john low ] Re: Bush Fires NJC ["Kakki" ] Re: Anais Nin (njc) ["Kakki" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2002 16:34:47 +1000 From: john low Subject: Re: Bush Fires NJC Australia heaps all kinds of shit on New Zealand doesn't it Hell? :-) Everything from cricket defeats to bushfire smoke! Seriously, though, if anyone is interested my niece has posted a website of photographs documenting her experience in Mount Riverview, a small community in the lower Blue Mountains west of Sydney. The fire hit them on Boxing Day around lunchtime. You wont see any flames in the photos  just approaching smoke (with its eerie light effects) and the post-fire devastation. As I said, my brother and his family were among the lucky ones, their house was saved! The web address is: http://www.mountaintracks.com.au/fire/ Regards, John. Original message from: "hell" > >For those JMDLers wanting some perspective on how serious the bush fires >really are, I can tell you that on the 2nd of January, there was a haze over >Auckland City caused by the smoke from these fires (our prevailing wind is a >westerly), that descended down the length of the North Island - Sydney is >1300 miles away, across the Tasman Sea! > >Friends visiting from Sydney also said visibility in the city was as bad as >200-300 metres. Here's hoping for some really heavy rain to put these fires >out once and for all. > >Hell >____________________________ >"To have great poets, there must be >great audiences too." - Walt Whitman > >hell@ihug.co.nz >Hell's Personal Photo Page: >http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~hell/main/personal.htm > >Visit the NBLs (Natural Born Losers) at: >http://www.nbls.co.nz > >. > __________________________________________________________________ Get your free Australian email account at http://www.start.com.au ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 22:34:56 -0800 From: "Kakki" Subject: Re: Bush Fires NJC Hi John, It's good to hear that you are alright and that you've had some rain. We've had a bit of the coverage here and they mentioned you all getting that big helicopter to help fight the flames. We've had to develop some pretty high-tech stuff here in Calif. to battle the brush fires. I was really amazed the other night to see the coverage of the poor little Koala bears who they are trying to save - they showed them with little oxygen masks on! Take care and I hope it clears up for you soon. Kakki ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 22:52:38 -0800 From: "Kakki" Subject: Re: Anais Nin (njc) > I got into Anais Nin when her diary was big, like in the 70s. I wrote to her > to tell her how cool I thought she was, and she wrote back to me. I still > have the hand-written letter. That's fantastic, Bob. As a teenager I used to go to the local library to check out and read the diaries - I couldn't get enough of them. Reminded me of something else I shouldn't tell but I'm high on antibiotics ;-) I had a boyfriend in college whose mother did not like me. She was totally into the feminist movement of the early 70s and used to rant a lot about people having babies and overpopulating the world, put the whole family on a role reversal program, i.e. boys do the ironing and the girls do the tree trimming and yard work, etc., and would (I absolutely kid you not) sit in a trance and listen to Helen Reddy's "I Am Woman" repeatedly during the day. I pretty much would lay low around her and try to be invisible. One night I saw her reading the Nin diaries and thought at last I might have something to share with her. I told her how much I liked them and all she did was peer up momentarily from her reading glasses and harrumph at me. Oh well. On the other hand the father liked me and used to give me knowing empathetic looks and winks to make me feel better. Years later I reunited with the boyfriend for awhile - she hadn't changed and the father was still winking at me ;-) Kakki ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2002 #17 **************************** ------- Post messages to the list by clicking here: mailto:joni@smoe.org Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe ------- Siquomb, isn't she?