From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2007 #474 Reply-To: joni@smoe.org Sender: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk Unsubscribe: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe Archives: http://www.smoe.org/lists/joni Website: http://jonimitchell.com JMDL Digest Sunday, November 25 2007 Volume 2007 : Number 474 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re : Shine on Borders [rian afriadi ] Re: Fiddle & Drum Ballet***** ["Richard Goldman" ] RE: Gratitude Happy Thanksgiving Everyone! [Sherelle Smith ] RE: Re : Shine on Borders ["Eric Taylor" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2007 03:14:10 -0800 (PST) From: rian afriadi Subject: Re : Shine on Borders Eric, WHAT? 50 Joni CDs??? Wow! I wish i could find a good store like that here. (Ive looked for Joni CDs on most malls in Jakarta and Bandung and I only found a few). My Joni catalogue is now complete, but most of them are digital files only. There was a famous oath in Indonesia called Sumpah Palapa (Palapa Oath). It was an oath made by Gadjah Mada, a prime minister of an ancient Javanese Kingdom called Madjapahit. The oath said that Gajah Mada wont taste the world before he could unite the whole Nusantara (nowadays Indonesian archipelago). Not only he did it, he also added nowadays Malaysia, Cambodia, Singapore, Brunei, Papua New Guinea, some part of Vietnam, some part of Thailand, and some part of the Philippines to the empire. Well, to see all 27 physical CDs of Joni in my shelf is my Sumpah Palapa. Rian NP. Shine - --------------------------------- Be a better pen pal. Text or chat with friends inside Yahoo! Mail. See how. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2007 06:29:37 -0800 From: "Richard Goldman" Subject: Re: Fiddle & Drum Ballet***** I totally share your passion, Eric. It's a mindblowingly exquisitely powerful and gorgeous work, worthy of a great ballet company. That Joni 'had a hand' in creating it, I would love to see a 'behind the scenes' feature or a 'the making of' feature.... Some songs, the interpretation in dance, gave me new layers of meaning, I hadn't had before. Specifically TBOBW. Wow ... And that African-American solder projected on the backstage screen, why ... that's Joni. In blackface... Everyone who's watched it has realized that by now, surely, but it blew my mind on viewing #2 to 'get' it. It is stunning, it should tour Canada (which I seem to recall it was going to?) and the U.S. (which I seem to recall it wasn't going to...sadly). I'm ever so grateful to have the video. Have shared it with other Joniphiles as well as dancerphiles alike, all have loved it. And made all the more better by the bits of conversation about it, with Tavis Smiley most recently. Such insight. Yes, indeed. OMG ~Richard 'i'm just a chalkmark in a rainstorm' Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2007 02:56:42 -0500 From: "Eric Taylor" Subject: Fiddle & Drum Ballet***** OMG I'm watching IT for the sixth time right now Does anyone out there share my complete passion for this ***** so far beyond all possible words??? It is just SOOOOOOOOO beautiful!!!!!!!!! ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2007 08:29:35 -0600 From: est86mlm@ameritech.net Subject: NEW! Back to the Garden, The Joni Mitchel Tribute CD - Will Taylor New Strings Attached Studio CD "Back to the Garden" reveals never released Joni Mitchell song. http://www.prweb.com/releases/2007/11/prweb571348.htm Listen to a sample here: http://yourtexasmusic.com/woodstock-sample.mp3 1. Chelsea Morning with Molly Venter Guitar: Dave Madden 2. My Favorite Color with Molly Venter Bass: Michael Hynes 3. River with Molly Venter 4. Blue Hotel Room with Libby Kirkpatrick Guitars: Will Taylor and Dave Madden 5. Both Sides Now with Molly Venter tarr. by Dave Madden 6. Dreamland with Suzanna Choffel arr. by Don Alias Percussion: Doug Marcis, Will Taylor, Stephen Zirkel, Shawn Sanders, Jason McKenzie 7. Carey with Suzanna Choffel arr. by Stephen Zirkel 8. Woodstock with Libby Kirkpatrickt 9. Coyote with Jean Synodinos 10. A Case of You with Molly Venter 11. Big Yellow Taxi with Suzanna Coffel 12. Hejira with Libby Kirkpatrick Will Taylor's Website: 1965 Joni singing "My Favorite Color" along with Will's version. http://stringsattached.org/store.php CD http://www.yourtexasmusic.com/Strings_Attached_Back_to_the_Garden_p/cd-sa-gard.htm Laura ************************************************ Win at Blockbuster. Play once a day. Check email for notification. Have fun! http://www.bbgreatgifts.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2007 15:10:41 +0000 From: Sherelle Smith Subject: NJC - Bid to perform with Mary J. Blige in NYC Cassy, I have been so crazy busy trying to work and raise money for a second CD that I haven't been able to read any digests for quite a while. I missed everyone and so this morning, I decided to start from the top and try to find out what my beloved Joni amigos were up to and saw this post! Boy do I wish I could do that and if there were any way I could, I would! Singing with Mary J. Blige and helping to fight AIDS at the same time would be a chance of a lifetime! I appreciate so much you and Victor thinking about me! Maybe one day that will happen anyway. One can hope!!!! Thanks again!!! Now back to the digests!!! Love, Sherelle Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2007 15:59:20 -0800From: "Cassy" Subject: NJC - Bid to perform with Mary J. Blige in NYC I could see one of our own performing at this show, perhaps Sherelle? The auction page advertises it as: Bid on a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to perform one song on stage at theHighline Ballroom as part of an evening benefiting LIFEbeat - The MusicIndustry Fights AIDS. You'll be backed up by the same 10 piece band as Mary JBlige and other musical guests and join the ranks of Paul McCartney, Lou Reed,Carlos Santana, James Blunt and other legends and superstars who have gracedthe Highline stage. The auction package includes 4 reserved seats (a $2,000 value) so your friendsand family can see you take the stage. But they won't be the only oneswatching. The room is going to be packed with music and entertainment industryexecutives and LIFEbeat supporters. To miss this opportunity to shine for agood cause. Place your bids now! About The EventVenue: Highline Ballroom - New York CityDate: Tuesday, December 4th, 2007Time: 7:00pm - 10:00pm, After-party 10pm +Live Performance: 10 piece band under the direction of Mark Batson;performances by YOU, Mary J Blige, Stephen Hill and more to be announcedsoon. _________________________________________________________________ Your smile counts. The more smiles you share, the more we donate. Join in. www.windowslive.com/smile?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_Wave2_oprsmilewlhmtagline ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2007 15:28:01 +0000 From: Sherelle Smith Subject: RE: Gratitude Happy Thanksgiving Everyone! Paz it's so nice to hear about your Thanksgiving and that you are doing well dear friend. As I said in a previous post, I have been really been working hard and don't get to get online like I used to...strange for me! I am also grateful for the friends I have made here at the JMDL and for Les who as been steadfast in honoring Joni with this digest and more. Words cannot describe how much I appreciate that! I am indeed grateful as well! Most of all, I'm grateful for Joni's music and her courage to follow her heart with each and every CD she's put out, the latest being "Shine". I have finally been able to afford to pick up a few more CD's of hers to add to my collection and just recently picked up "Both Sides Now", "Miles of Isles" and finally replaced my cassette tape version of "Blue" with a CD! Been waiting for a quiet moment to listen to them in their entirety...still waiting but at least they are in my possession! I've also had a chance to listen to Chaka Khan's rendition of Joni's "Ladies Man" off her new CD, "Funk This". This is one of Joni's songs I've never heard before so though I love Chaka's version, I don't know what the original song sounds like. Chaka definitely has a smooth groove to it. You can hear Joni's unique background vocal stylings in the song. I know that Chaka and Joni are very good friends and Chaka is a die-hard fan like the rest of us! So good to know! I really like what Chaka has done with the song and was wondering if anyone else has heard this. It may have been a previous thread and if so, my apologies as I am catching up. Happy Belated Thanksgiving to everyone and am hoping that your day was a wonderful day! Sherelle Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2007 15:59:34 -0600From: Michael Paz Subject: Gratitude Happy Thanksgiving Everyone! As usual I am up to my neck in turkeys (baked and fried) many casseroles, mash potatoes, gravy, oysters, shrimp, and crabmeat and mirlitons. It's all cooking away and I have taken time out to reflect on how much gratitude I feel for all the blessings that I have of family, friends, music, health, and the ever popular JMDL. Thanks to Les for the years of dedication and resourcefulness in getting it all to work and be there for us. Thanks Joni for the new album and Herbie for the Joni Letters. Thank you all for your friendship. I wish you all love and peace. Paz NP- Pots and pans being cleaned Michael Pazmichael@thepazgroup.com Tour ManagerPreservation Hall Jazz Bandhttp://www.preservationhall.com _________________________________________________________________ Put your friends on the big screen with Windows Vista. + Windows Live. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/shop/specialoffers.mspx?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_CPC_MediaCtr_bigscreen_102007 ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2007 07:35:46 -0800 (PST) From: Bob Muller Subject: Re: NEW! Back to the Garden, The Joni Mitchel Tribute CD - Will Taylor Yep - this has been on the radar screen for awhile now, Laura. The release date is now slated for December 1 after having been pushed out and out for several months now. Also coming up in December is a Joni tribute CD by Vancouver jazz singer Leora Cashe, titled "Another Sides Now". I don't know the tracklisting yet but those in the area can catch her promoting it in local clubs. I had to laugh when I was reading about it - she said she was going to focus on Joni's 1968-1974 period....LOL, yeah, you and everyone else. I think if she said she was going to "focus on Joni's Geffen period" I would have poo'd my britches. Bob NP: James Taylor, "Enough To Be On Your Way" - --------------------------------- Be a better pen pal. Text or chat with friends inside Yahoo! Mail. See how. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2007 09:48:37 -0600 From: est86mlm@ameritech.net Subject: Back to the Garden, The Joni Mitchel Tribute CD - Will Taylor Bob, It's a rare day when I get one up on you! And today is not one of them. haha What's with ALL these tribute albums coming out now? It does keep Joni's songs out there. I haven't heard of either Leora Cashe or Will Taylor...........but I did notice in your 'cover' area he's previously recorded some Joni. So much to learn and explore........................ Laura Yep - this has been on the radar screen for awhile now, Laura. The release date is now slated for December 1 after having been pushed out and out for several months now. Also coming up in December is a Joni tribute CD by Vancouver jazz singer Leora Cashe, titled "Another Sides Now". I don't know the tracklisting yet but those in the area can catch her promoting it in local clubs. I had to laugh when I was reading about it - she said she was going to focus on Joni's 1968-1974 period....LOL, yeah, you and everyone else. I think if she said she was going to "focus on Joni's Geffen period" I would have poo'd my britches. Bob NP: James Taylor, "Enough To Be On Your Way" Be a better pen pal. Text or chat with friends inside Yahoo! Mail. See how. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2007 07:59:23 -0800 (PST) From: Bob Muller Subject: Re: Back to the Garden, The Joni Mitchel Tribute CD - Will Taylor Well, you never know so keep those Joni covers news stories coming. Will's band did an EXCELLENT version of Black Crow a number of years ago - I'm so happy that they went into the studio after a successful weekend of Joni tribute concerts (that I was hoping to see, but that's another story). I think with the passage of time Joni's genius & legacy continue to inspire. I think that we're seeing a "catch-up" with Joni - many of her peers have had a long list of tributes and Joni's were a little later in getting cranked up (in the US anyway, she's had several tribute albums released outside the USA). Perhaps David Lahm got the ball rolling - Joni's songs are more jazz than pop, so more and more jazz singers are picking up on them. Bob NP: Eminem, "Without Me" - --------------------------------- Get easy, one-click access to your favorites. Make Yahoo! your homepage. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2007 11:30:19 -0500 (EST) From: "Jerry Notaro" Subject: RE: Gratitude Happy Thanksgiving Everyone! Sherelle Smith wrote: > I've also had a chance to listen to Chaka Khan's rendition of Joni's > "Ladies Man" off her new CD, "Funk This". This is one of Joni's songs I've > never heard before so though I love Chaka's version, I don't know what the > original song sounds like. Chaka definitely has a smooth groove to it. You > can hear Joni's unique background vocal stylings in the song. I know that > Chaka and Joni are very good friends and Chaka is a die-hard fan like the > rest of us! So good to know! I really like what Chaka has done with the > song and was wondering if anyone else has heard this. It may have been a > previous thread and if so, my apologies as I am catching up. No apologies needed, Sherelle. Funk This is going to make my Top 10 list this year, for sure. It is an instant classic, and the recording is an audiophile's every wish come true. I got to meet Chaka (and her Posse, two gran-babies, and all) at the Joni's Jazz rehearsal. She is a force of nature and a true artist who not only loves Joni, but "gets" her. Jerry ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2007 11:32:35 -0500 (EST) From: "Jerry Notaro" Subject: Re: I Changed My Email Address. I have to. Rian Afriadi wrote: > I hate my old email address anyway. Someone once thought i was born in > 1950. Careful, Rian! Jerry, born 6/25/50 ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2007 10:01:33 -0800 From: "Randy Remote" Subject: Wired Magazine review of Shine Sorry this is kinda long-but a great review Joni Mitchell's first album of new songs in nine years finds her mourning the sad state of the planet, but with a newfound acceptance that all things have their place in the universe ("bad dreams are good in the great plan," as she puts it here, quoting her young grandson) -- including her own anger and disappointment. Despite the numerous Robinson Jeffers-like call-outs of money/corruption/greed/rage/war and the incivility of humankind, the album does not end up being disheartening, but the opposite. Her voice -- husky with age and chain-smoked American Spirits -- shines with a warrior's strength and defiance even in ragged armor, like Billie Holiday's late recordings. And most wonderfully, Joni is still pushing her music into vital new territory, foregoing the synthesizer-guitar textures of "Taming the Tiger" for piano, horns, percussion, and other warmly organic voices. She boldly opens the album with an instrumental, which struck me as an ungenerous move on first hearing, but in the context of the rest of the album makes perfect sense on Joni's terms, which are the only terms on which she makes records, bless her. (Miles Davis, Bob Dylan, and Neil Young -- her true peers -- also specialized in weirding out listeners who expected more-of-the-same with each new record.) Every song gets a distinctive orchestration of its own, from the percolating "Hana" -- a portrait of an old movie heroine, an Irish bodhisattva disguised as a traveling maid, who had "a special knack for getting people back on the right track" -- to a playful reprise of "Big Yellow Taxi" rescored like French circus music. "This Place" has particularly sleek and engaging sound, blending lap steel, warm horns, and bright keyboards, with its reference to a neighbor in rural British Columbia who says, "When I get to heaven, if it is not like this, I'll just hop a cloud and I'm coming back down here..." My favorite track on the album is the final one, "If," which advances the sinuous groove of "Cold Blue Steel and Sweet Fire" and "Don't Interrupt the Sorrow" and other milestones into new realms. The lyric is paraphrased from a Rudyard Kipling poem, but Joni wrote the most stunning verse: If you can fill the journey of a minute with sixty seconds worth of wonder and delight then the Earth is yours and Everything that's in it but more than that I know You'll be alright You'll be alright. Fittingly, the title track "Shine" is the purest expression of the essence of this album. After reciting a litany of offenses against the spirit, she insists that the proper response is to "shine your little light" into every corner of your life. It's not polyannic New Agey jive, but more like the alchemy of heavy global lead into spiritual gold: with this song, Joni even transcends her own identity as an angry Cassandra issuing dire warnings to a culture that doesn't want to listen. She's no stranger to Buddhist subtexts in her work -- "Refuge of the Roads" on Hejira was, among other things, a tribute to the vajrayana master Chogyam Trungpa, and "Taming the Tiger" was an allusion to Tibetan meditation practices for quelling the ego's rages. In "Shine," the Buddhist analogue would be Dzogchen, the Great Perfection -- the recognition that everything is just right as it is, even the things that insult the ego and bruise the heart. We're lucky to be alive on the same dying planet that she is. Stephen Silberman ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2007 21:16:22 +0000 From: Sherelle Smith Subject: RE: Gratitude Happy Thanksgiving Everyone! Wow! Wow! Wow! That is absolutely awesome! I hope I have my digests from that experience Jerry! How absolutely cool! I felt in my heart that Chaka "gets" Joni! I absolutely love this CD and you are right, it's going to be an instant classic. She's doing songs from Prince, Jimi Hendrix and Joni all on the same CD!!! Doesn't get any better than that! Which Joni album is "Ladies Man" on? Sherelle> Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2007 11:30:19 -0500> Subject: RE: Gratitude Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!> From: notaro@stpt.usf.edu> To: sherellesmith@hotmail.com> CC: michael@thepazgroup.com; joni@smoe.org> > Sherelle Smith wrote:> > > I've also had a chance to listen to Chaka Khan's rendition of Joni's> > "Ladies Man" off her new CD, "Funk This". This is one of Joni's songs I've> > never heard before so though I love Chaka's version, I don't know what the> > original song sounds like. Chaka definitely has a smooth groove to it. You> > can hear Joni's unique background vocal stylings in the song. I know that> > Chaka and Joni are very good friends and Chaka is a die-hard fan like the> > rest of us! So good to know! I really like what Chaka has done with the> > song and was wondering if anyone else has heard this. It may have been a> > previous thread and if so, my apologies as I am catching up.> > No apologies needed, Sherelle. Funk This is going to make my Top 10 list> this year, for sure. It is an instant classic, and the recording is an> audiophile's every wish come true. I got to meet Chaka (and her Posse, two> gran-babies, and all) at the Joni's Jazz rehearsal. She is a force of> nature and a true artist who not only loves Joni, but "gets" her.> > Jerry> _________________________________________________________________ Put your friends on the big screen with Windows Vista. + Windows Live. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/shop/specialoffers.mspx?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_CPC_M ediaCtr_bigscreen_102007 ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2007 14:07:01 -0800 (PST) From: Bob Muller Subject: RE: Gratitude Happy Thanksgiving Everyone! Wild Things Run Fast - that was an EASY one. Bob NP: Cornershop, "Funky Days Are Back Again" - --------------------------------- Get easy, one-click access to your favorites. Make Yahoo! your homepage. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2007 14:10:58 -0800 From: "Mark Scott" Subject: Re: Gratitude Happy Thanksgiving Everyone! - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sherelle Smith" > Wow! Wow! Wow! That is absolutely awesome! I hope I have my digests > from that > experience Jerry! How absolutely cool! I felt in my heart that Chaka > "gets" > Joni! > > I absolutely love this CD and you are right, it's going to be an > instant > classic. She's doing songs from Prince, Jimi Hendrix and Joni all on > the same > CD!!! Doesn't get any better than that! > > Which Joni album is "Ladies Man" on? > Hi Sherelle! Ladies Man is on Wild Things Run Fast. Mark in Seattle ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2007 22:09:19 -0000 From: "Anita Tedder" Subject: Who could play Joni revisited Having read the recent posts regarding who would play Joni in a movie (Sissy Spacek, Cate Blanchet et al), I was just perusing jonimitchell.com and looked at the (alleged) photo of Joni for the section Joni in Fiction. This photo HAS to be of Jennifer Saunders. It looks vaguely Joni esque but much nearer to Jen, post Ab Fab. I have to say, the idea of a French and Saunders take on Joni does appeal to me! Anita ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2007 22:00:33 -0800 (PST) From: Jeannie Subject: Re: Fiddle & Drum Ballet***** Once it's coming on closer to Christmas Day, is what I want to save the Fiddle and Drum Ballet for. To watch it on such a special day shall be my well deserved Christmas present... Can I buy the F&D Ballet DVD also at Starbucks or maybe at Borders, also? Jeannie NPIMH: Santa Claus Is Coming To Town: Bruce Springsteen PS: Good idea about giving Shine in all of it's CD splendor as gifts to those we know can hear beyond all the clamor, hammers and nails. NPIMH: The Little Drummer Girl Richard Goldman wrote: I totally share your passion, Eric. It's a mindblowingly exquisitely powerful and gorgeous work, worthy of a great ballet company. That Joni 'had a hand' in creating it, I would love to see a 'behind the scenes' feature or a 'the making of' feature.... Some songs, the interpretation in dance, gave me new layers of meaning, I hadn't had before. Specifically TBOBW. Wow ... And that African-American solder projected on the backstage screen, why ... that's Joni. In blackface... Everyone who's watched it has realized that by now, surely, but it blew my mind on viewing #2 to 'get' it. It is stunning, it should tour Canada (which I seem to recall it was going to?) and the U.S. (which I seem to recall it wasn't going to...sadly). I'm ever so grateful to have the video. Have shared it with other Joniphiles as well as dancerphiles alike, all have loved it. And made all the more better by the bits of conversation about it, with Tavis Smiley most recently. Such insight. Yes, indeed. OMG ~Richard 'i'm just a chalkmark in a rainstorm' Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2007 02:56:42 -0500 From: "Eric Taylor" Subject: Fiddle & Drum Ballet***** OMG I'm watching IT for the sixth time right now Does anyone out there share my complete passion for this ***** so far beyond all possible words??? It is just SOOOOOOOOO beautiful!!!!!!!!! nj ' - --------------------------------- Be a better pen pal. Text or chat with friends inside Yahoo! Mail. See how. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2007 01:49:27 -0500 From: "Eric Taylor" Subject: RE: Re : Shine on Borders What a wonderful borderline progress report Rian!!! May the Great Spirit SHINE upon the whole Indonesian archipelago~~~~~~~ MUCH Sumpah Palapa!!!!!!! I lived on the Big Island of Hawaii for several years learning to dance the Hula history. The closest Hawaiian term for Sumpah Palapa i can think of is Mana (roughly translated as 'life force') Although it sounds like a masculine word it is actually a lot closer to Hana as it is the power of Pele LORD I LOVE THE JMDL! Where better else could such caring people express this holy shit without fear??? Rian, I've been slowly replacing all of my Joni CDs with new HD remasterings and have numerous older CDs that I would be very happy to contribute to your catalogue. Reply off-list and I'll send you what I have for Christmas..... ;~)* & hey, does everyone out here have a copy of Joni's masterful performance at A Day In The Garden? Awesome recording straight from the sound board! O that STB is stunning in every incarnation, but esp T'log! BLESS all ye Joni fans over the years who have shared SO generously her obscure genius with me & our dark world. Our Joan is like no other lighting the lamp On fire ET - ----- Original Message ----- From: rian afriadi To: joni;eric Sent: 11/24/07 6:14:11 AM Subject: Re : Shine on Borders Eric, WHAT? 50 Joni CDs??? Wow! I wish i could find a good store like that here. (Ive looked for Joni CDs on most malls in Jakarta and Bandung and I only found a few). My Joni catalogue is now complete, but most of them are digital files only. There was a famous oath in Indonesia called Sumpah Palapa (Palapa Oath). It was an oath made by Gadjah Mada, a prime minister of an ancient Javanese Kingdom called Madjapahit. The oath said that Gajah Mada wont taste the world before he could unite the whole Nusantara (nowadays Indonesian archipelago). Not only he did it, he also added nowadays Malaysia, Cambodia, Singapore, Brunei, Papua New Guinea, some part of Vietnam, some part of Thailand, and some part of the Philippines to the empire. Well, to see all 27 physical CDs of Joni in my shelf is my Sumpah Palapa. Rian NP. Shine ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2007 #474 ***************************** ------- Post messages to the list by clicking here: mailto:joni@smoe.org Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe -------