From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2011 #845 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 Saturday, January 14 2012 Volume 2011 : Number 845 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: Joni Mitchell performs "Hejira," June 15, 1986 [T Peckham Subject: Re: Joni Mitchell performs "Hejira," June 15, 1986 This is the kind of post that keeps me comin' back and checking in. Thanks, Gerard! On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 12:51 PM, gerard mclaughlin wrote: > I have never found Hejira depressing but then as a child Ingmar Bergman > cheered me up so who am I to say. Just reading your post there , Susan > lifted me out of some gloom that's been lurking. That song is medicine to > me. Always has been.I remembber standing outside a bank at a bus stop late > one night here in Glasgow. It was snowing. I was bereft.Suddenly I saw the > moon reflected in the banks mirrorred windows. Accross the road an old > hotel. There was a light on in a room up on the roof under the big moon.I,m > seeing all this in the actual mirrors of a modern bank ! In that instant I > was lifted out of my loneliness. I imagined Joni standing at that window > behind the curtain looking down at me. I could see white flags of winter > chimneys waving truce against the moon > > .Joni has sometimes referred to herself as a witness and on that occasion I > felt her witnessing me, one of her fans thousands of miles away. The memory > has never left me. Lots of us say she has been the soundtrack to our lives. > That night it was all a bit more than a soundtrack for me. She is part of > the journey as far as I'm concerned and I fall in and out with her like a > lover or a friend but she's there.Ah there is medicine in her work. I;m > glad your friend got it. Many of mine just don;t get her and don,t even > want to try. Sometimes it,s lonely loving Joni but it is worth it ! Sorry > to go on but your post brought it all back to life. Oh I love Hejira. > > > - -- "An artist can show things that other people are terrified of expressing." - ---Louise Bourgeois ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2011 #845 ***************************** ------- To post messages to the list, send to joni@smoe.org. Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe -------