From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2014 #1119 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, August 20 2014 Volume 2014 : Number 1119 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Both sides now something's lost, something's gained [Marianne Rizzo Subject: Both sides now something's lost, something's gained SOMETHING'S LOST and SOMETHING'S GAINED in LIVING everyday Well, I was talking to patti about this. "something's lost and something's gained in living everyday." This truly, profound statement was written by a special 23? year old person? I am so touched by this statement. I think of this often. . So many times I have found this in life. . . . Something's lost and something's gained. . . . I pour some concrete in my barn to repair the ground and perhaps closing up some habitat for toads and for a while, I no longer saw the toads in my barn, and I thought, something's lost and something's gained in living every day. I thought perhaps I had cemented over habitat. ( they came back, later though!) But, we lose one thing in this continuation of life, and we hopefully gain another thing. . . THIS is the cycle of life . . . . continuous, yet broken. WHO sees this at 23 years old, 21 years old? WHO arrives at this and is then able to express it? I don't know if I would have come to this myself. What other profound thoughts/analysis are found in this mind/heart of joni? A very smart, intellectual, contemplative, creative one. A gift to us. Thank you joni. How else has joni inspired us and given us words for our experiences? We are better for it. Marianne ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2014 #1119 ****************************** ------- To post messages to the list,sendtojoni@smoe.org. Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe -------