From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2009 #14 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 Website: http://jonimitchell.com JMDL Digest Wednesday, January 14 2009 Volume 2009 : Number 014 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- RE: Man on a Wire NJC [Bob.Muller@Fluor.com] Mini gathering in CA? (NJC) [Ashara Stansfield ] njc, More Inauguration stuff (in some office sits a poet) [Patti Parlette] Re: Mini gathering in CA? (NJC) ["Lori Fye" ] RE: Man on a Wire NJC [Laura Stanley ] spam njc ["Jamie Zubairi Home" ] Re: spam njc [Bob.Muller@Fluor.com] Re: Please VOTE for a Department of Peace NOW njc ["Randy Remote" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 07:59:08 -0500 From: Bob.Muller@Fluor.com Subject: RE: Man on a Wire NJC It's interesting synchronicity because we were just talking about this very topic this weekend with friends. We all pretty much agreed that friendships have life-cycles, sometimes mutually imposed and other times imposed by either of the parties. It can be very hard to accept - it's somewhat akin to the grieving process in that you have to pass through all of those stages; denial to acceptance. I've got a co-worker who was a pretty close friend over the last year or so and she was just cut loose last Monday (probably because she was such a challenge to get along with) and I don't know whether to contact her or just let it go. In the case of Man On Wire, I almost feel as if there's a piece missing or not being told between Petit and his friend - I couldn't see anything in the story to evoke the emotions exhibited by the friend. Still, what a good piece of film-making to make you think like that, and recall those scenes that will haunt you for a long time. Bob NP: Ted Cole, "The Circle Game" - ------------------------------------------------------------ The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain proprietary, business-confidential and/or privileged material. If you are not the intended recipient of this message you are hereby notified that any use, review, retransmission, dissemination, distribution, reproduction or any action taken in reliance upon this message is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender and may not necessarily reflect the views of the company. - ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 08:29:04 -0500 From: Ashara Stansfield Subject: Mini gathering in CA? (NJC) I will be in CA from January 27 to Feb 3. I will be mostly in SF, but thinking of driving down to the LA area for a few days at the beginning of the trip. Anyone up for a mini Joni gathering? LA would have to be probably either the 28th or 29th and SF could be either of those dates if I don't head to LA, or perhaps Feb 1st or 2nd. Thoughts, anyone? Hugs, Ashara ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 17:30:55 +0000 From: Patti Parlette Subject: njc, More Inauguration stuff (in some office sits a poet) Great reports, Cassy! Oooh la la! "Something tells me we're into something good." And there is more. You KNOW there may be more. In some office sits a inaugural poet! Le retour de la poesie a la Maison Blanche: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/12/19/elizabeth-alexaner-obama_n_152384.ht ml A poet can sing Sometimes we try Yes we always try (Yes we can!) On the seventh (to the last) day of Bushmess, a moron gave to me: seven swans a-swimming....out on some borderline "Every swan caught on the grass Will draw a borderline" Every bristling shaft of pride Church or nation Team or tribe Every notion we subscribe to Is just a borderline Good or bad we think we know As if thinking makes things so! All convictions grow along a borderline Smug in your jaded expertise You scathe the wonder world And you praise barbarity In this illusionary place This scared hard-edged rat race All liberty is laced with Borderlines Every income every age Every fashion-plated rage Every measure every gauge Creates a borderline Every stone thrown through glass Every mean-streets-kick ass Every swan caught on the grass Will draw a borderline Let these borderlines come tumbling down, and all the shelter Labradoodles and Portuguese Water Dogs go running free! There's a Bush poppy wreath on a soldier's tomb There's a poppy snake son in a dressing room Poppy Bush poison poppy son tourniquet It slithers away on brass like mouthpiece SPIT! BEGONE! (ASIDE: thinking of slithering snakes. On the 4th anniv. of the beginning of the Iraq war, I went to a vigil. I needed a great sign. It was St. Patrick's Day. So, who will come to save the day w/ a great sign suggestion? Mighty Mouse? Superman? Nope. Look! Up in the sky! It's Smurfadelica! The sign drew lots of thumbs-ups, and even appeared like confetti on my TV set: "St Patrick, please drive the snakes out of our White House!") GO NOW! Sorry. I'm getting all ooby shooby now. If you just can't understand the idiomatic logic for free association that goes on in my head....tune me out. I'm just romanticizing some pain that it's my head. I've got tombs in my eyes, but the songs I punch are dreaming...a result of all of the hope and the hopelessness we've witnessed eight long years. On the seventh day before Bushlessness, a true Prez gave to me: seven swans a-swimming towards HOPE. A new day, a new way, to carry on. xo, pp, heading off to Yale, looking for some sweet inspiration from just another war-torn mom, with peaceful expectations. P.S. A helicopter *driver???* lands on a Katrina-ripped roof, like a dragonfly on a tomb.. What? This country has had no driver at the top? No wonder I'm in flip city. NPIMH: So let it out and let it in, Barack, begin, You're waiting for someone to perform with. And don't you know that its just you, Barack, you'll do, The movement you need is on your shoulder. Barack, don't make it bad. Take all these sad songs and make them better. Remember to let us (We the People) under your skin, Then you'll begin to make it Better better better BETTER BETTER BETTER OH! BAMA! Na na na na na ,na na na, hey President Obama! _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live: Keep your life in sync. http://windowslive.com/explore?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_t1_allup_explore_012009 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 10:07:13 -0800 From: "Lori Fye" Subject: Re: Mini gathering in CA? (NJC) << I will be in CA from January 27 to Feb 3. I will be mostly in SF, but thinking of driving down to the LA area for a few days at the beginning of the trip. Anyone up for a mini Joni gathering? LA would have to be probably either the 28th or 29th and SF could be either of those dates if I don't head to LA, or perhaps Feb 1st or 2nd. Thoughts, anyone? >> Ashara, count me in if you might be in SF on Jan 31 or Feb 1. : ) Lori, ~ 60 miles north of SF in Santa Rosa, CA ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 11:31:03 -0800 (PST) From: Laura Stanley Subject: RE: Man on a Wire NJC Bob wrote: It's interesting synchronicity because we were just talking about this very topic this weekend with friends. We all pretty much agreed that friendships have life-cycles, sometimes mutually imposed and other times imposed by either of the parties. Hi Bob, "Life-cycles" is a great way to describe it. Thanks. That brings to my mind The Circle Game and seasons of friendships. In my experience as the seasons of my life change, most of those who I've felt were my closest friends have gone their own ways. Sometimes I've grieved this, sometimes I've failed to accept it and lived in denial of it until years after they were gone, and sometimes it has caught me by surprise and I only come to realize things have changed years after the friendship became mere acquaintance. I'm sure I'm seen by others as having faded into the sunset of friendship they had hoped to keep and me not even realizing it. It is all beyond me really. Love, Laura ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 19:49:58 +0000 From: "Jamie Zubairi Home" Subject: spam njc Ok so did anyone else just get that email from someone working in Africa for Julius Berger Construction company? I'm guessing it's not from one of us is it? I see a lot of people from the list on the mailing list though... Jamie - -- Feel like supporting a World Record Attempt while giving to charity? go to: http://www.justgiving.com/zooby Jamie Zubairi can be found for voice-overs at http://uk.voicespro.com/jamie.zubairi1 acting CV and showreel at http://uk.castingcallpro.com/u/81749 agent: http://www.pelhamassociates.co.uk 01273 323 010 http://www.jamiezubairi.co.uk Facebook me! Everest Blog: http://jamiezubairi.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 14:55:45 -0500 From: Bob.Muller@Fluor.com Subject: Re: spam njc Maybe the spambot got the addresses from a digest it found on the web. I work for a global construction company but it wasn't from me. I don't mix work and play, unless of course I am at work and would rather play which is most of the time. Bob NP: Joni, "Good Friends" - ------------------------------------------------------------ The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain proprietary, business-confidential and/or privileged material. If you are not the intended recipient of this message you are hereby notified that any use, review, retransmission, dissemination, distribution, reproduction or any action taken in reliance upon this message is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender and may not necessarily reflect the views of the company. - ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 11:38:03 -0800 From: "Randy Remote" Subject: Re: Please VOTE for a Department of Peace NOW njc Oops-the voting buttons did not survive the forward to the list- To vote for a department of peace, go to http://tinyurl.com/64r567 They'll ask you to sign in, but it only takes a minute. There is also a bill before the House to establish a United States Department of Peace. More here: http://www.thepeacealliance.org/content/view/76/68/ This seems especially timely since our new president wants to open a new theater of war in Afghanistan, which will result in another unwinnable quagmire, sending thousands of our young people into conflict, and, as always, killing many thousands of civilians. No we shouldn't. RR > Dear Friends > Hi. This is yoko ono. > I fully support the idea of voting for a DEPARTMENT OF PEACE. > Please read the following instructions and VOTE! ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 10:16:16 +1100 From: Melissa Gibbs Subject: Re: Chinese Caf=?ISO-8859-1?B?6SA=?=Unchained Melody I love this too. My favourite line: "We look like our mothers did now When were those kids' age" I often see my own life through the prism of my mother. I often think about my age, and think about what my mother was doing at a similar time in her life. This line struck me the first time I heard it. Melissa in Sydney NP - ABC 702 local radio ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 20:11:22 -0800 (PST) From: Monika Bogdanowicz Subject: Re: Flush njc I just started Flush the other day and am almost finished. I just have the last chapter to read. It was one of my Christmas gifts I received.. I like it thus far. It is a lighter read but it still has that philosophical insight that Woolf expresses in her novels (which I thoroughly enjoy). I don't know much about the Brownings as people either. I do know I very much enjoy Robert Browning's work in particular. I've read some of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's work but not enough to really comment. I often wondered though about their marriage/mindset. Robert Browning's work is so disturbing (in a good way) and dark whereas everything I have read of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's is very warm and heartfelt. I may impore more of her work though. I also received Jacob's Room (which I read before), Mrs. Dalloway (also read before). and To The Lighthouse which I have not yet read for Xmas. I am going to pick that one up after I finish Flush. I know that the main situation of the book deals with someone or some people going to a lighthouse and yet in the end, they or he/she never make it. I actually had a similar situation, literally, to that on my Vancouver trip in Canada! My sister, brother, and I were headed to a lighthouse on a very rainy, cool day on the egde of Vancouver where nature wins over city. You had to go down a path (I think it was atleast half a mile long) in the middle of the woods. There was just one street with one bus stop down the road to get to the wooded area. We were all very excited to see this lighthouse until I saw a sign at the start of the path that said, "bear sighting here." I am deathly afraid of bears and I wouldn't know what to do if I saw one! I know you are not supposed to do anything but it is my fear I will run into one! At that sign, after a long bus ride to this area, I told my sister I wasn't going in. It would have been one thing if it was very crowded with dozens of people going to this lighthouse...down this wooded path....but no. We only saw a couple of people returning from the lighthouse. My sister still wanted to go but my brother agreed that we not go! Now granted, the likelihood of actually running into a bear probably was very low but that "bear sighting" sign did me in. Anyhow, I'll probably start To The Lighthouse tomorrow or the next day. - -Monika - --- On Sat, 1/10/09, Mark Scott wrote: > You MUST be a major Woolf reader. We're the only ones who read Flush. :) > > Michael Flaherty Had to chime in here. I have read all of the novels. 'Flush' is kind of a lark, I think. Woolf was having a bit of fun and excercising her imagination. I think Quentin Bell said in his biography that she really was probably interested in imagining what it would be like to be a dog. I really didn't know much about Elizabeth and Robert Browning before reading 'Flush.' Now I have seen 2 movie versions of 'The Barrets of Wimpole Street'. Judging from those 2 movies and what Woolf writes about in 'Flush', Elizabeth Barrett Browning's father must have been a terribly repressive, controlling man. I don't want to say too much more as I don't want to spoil the book for Monika if she hasn't finished it yet. I liked it. Mark in Seattle Common Reader ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2009 #14 **************************** ------- Post messages to the list by clicking here: mailto:joni@smoe.org Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe -------