From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2013 #880 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 Thursday, June 27 2013 Volume 2013 : Number 880 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: This Rain, This Rain - the lyrics [Catherine ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2013 12:22:06 -0400 From: Catherine Subject: Re: This Rain, This Rain - the lyrics It's also reminscent of "Song for Sharon," in its comparison of two lives that take diverging paths, innit? Sent from my cheapo tablet thingy. Anita wrote: >On 27 Jun 2013, at 14:37, Catherine McKay wrote: >I can see why Joni would be >> attracted to Emily Carr's persona. She sound grouchy but loveable and now I >> want to read some of her books. > >Cath, thanks once again for all this that you're doing. I was very struck by the Emily Carr writings you included which reveal her longing for a soul mate and her looking at the large woman in the shop and wondering just who has the key to a fulfilled life. Where Emily writes: > >"Does she get more out of life by that >sort of stuff than I do with my sort of stuff? I wouldn't change - but who is >the wiser woman? who lives fullest and collects the biggest bag full of life? >I dunno" > >I then like the idea of the pool playing, pin ball Queen combining with the artist and song writer that Joni is. The ordinary combining with the extraordinary. Sounds a good balance to me, >Anita ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2013 #880 ***************************** ------- To post messages to the list, sendtojoni@smoe.org. Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe -------