From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2014 #1902 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 Tuesday, March 17 2015 Volume 2014 : Number 1902 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- =?windows-1252?Q?Hey_=85_wait_a_minute?= [Lindsay Moon Subject: =?windows-1252?Q?Hey_=85_wait_a_minute?= Nina McLaughlin, The Making of a Carpenter -- My sister's friend's daughter wrote this book (about leaving an unsatisfying job and learning carpentry) and just had a book signing. In reading an interview with her, I found this passage which sounds very similar to what Joni talks about when switching back and forth between music and painting. NM: What Ive found: after a stretch of writing, I get antsy to get out of my head and back to the satisfaction  physical and mental  of building. I get antsy to leave the screen, leave my apartment, joke with Mary, use tools, forget about words. And the same is true in the opposite way  after a bit of time goes by (usually a matter of about three days) where I havent written, I start to feel an itching in my head, and all I want is for some time putting sentences together. It feels a little like a hunger. A deep need. And it can be satisfied by writing a blog post or a book review. The best days usually involve some combination of the two. Theres something about putting your brain where you hands are that frees up the word-centers of the mind, maybe a bit like meditating. It could be knitting or cooking or playing guitar or drawing or whatever. Letting that part of the brain go quiet allows things to cook in there without the grinding at the desk and the deliberate footfalls of one word after the next. Bodywise and brainwise, I feel so lucky to have these two pursuits in combination. Yay, Nina! ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2014 #1902 ****************************** ------- To post messages to the list,sendtojoni@smoe.org. Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe -------