From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2011 #367 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://jmdl.com JMDL Digest Wednesday, October 19 2011 Volume 2011 : Number 367 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: Trouble Child [Robin Adler ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2011 17:48:18 -0700 From: Robin Adler Subject: Re: Trouble Child Beautifully written Anita. I think I'm getting close to being inside this tune and it's turning out to be one of my favorites. We had a great rehearsal today with Max and the other 7 band members. The level of musicianship is extraordinary. I am mostly struck by the integrity each individual brings to this project. I'm a lucky girl, I've found my band. Love, Robin On Oct 19, 2011, at 6:40 AM, Anita G wrote: > As always, some fascinating analyses of 'Trouble Child' with some > great insights and ideas about the symbolism. I certainly hadn't > considered heraldic links. > > I have always been particularly struck by the numbers of images about > water in 'Trouble Child'. The 'river of changing faces looking for an > ocean', trickling through leaky plans, dreams over dams, plus the > 'breaking' of both the waves and the 'patient.' > > Again, I am struck by the existential truth the song contains when > Joni comments about the 'shock' of finding the truth of our isolation. > Why does it comes as such a shock to know we really have no-one? > Why,indeed. > > On a personal level, I have been in hospital twice in my life > struggling with my depression, and the first time was in 1974 when, i > think, I first hear C&S. The song sure sang lots for me, although > fortunately I was never quite mad enough to think Joni had written it > for me! However, the Doctors I saw often felt like vastly superior > dragons and I certainly felt my 'right to be human' was going over the > dam. > > Now I am older, I feel the truth about our isolation that Joni writes > so well about in this song is tempered by the understanding that the > people who trickle through all kind of plans can still be very,very > close. We can still experience great connection with one another no > matter how fleeting the contact and, of course, we can be blessed to > have people in our lives who love us dearly and stick around. However, > the truth of the fact that we are ultimately all alone is one of the > most poignant aspects of 'Trouble Child' for me. 'We all come and go > unknown' in so many ways. So, for me, both 'Hejira' and 'Trouble > Child' are closing linked, being brilliant comments on existential > truths. > > Robin, I know we will do a great job on this tune! > Love > Anita thanks, Robin - ------------------------------------------------- New CD available now! "Safaris to the Heart: The Songs of Joni Mitchell" by Robin Adler & Mutts of the Planet. To listen or learn more: http://www.reverbnation.com/robinadlermuttsoftheplanet To purchase: http://www.robinadler.com/products.html ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2011 #367 ***************************** ------- To post messages to the list, send to joni@smoe.org. Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe -------