From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2011 #847 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 Monday, January 16 2012 Volume 2011 : Number 847 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: Joni Mitchell performs "Hejira," June 15, 1986 [gerard mclaughlin Subject: Re: Joni Mitchell performs "Hejira," June 15, 1986 Thanks for that, T Peckham !... it warms the cockles of my heart ! On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 2:42 AM, T Peckham wrote: > 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 #847 ***************************** ------- To post messages to the list, send to joni@smoe.org. Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe -------