From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2014 #1903 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 1903 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- RE: JMDL Digest V2014 #1902 [Mary ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2015 12:38:52 -0700 From: Mary Subject: RE: JMDL Digest V2014 #1902 Lindsay, thank you for this passage. It is very meaningful. I like the juggling of sensory skills. GREETINGS FROM THE TRIPLE M Down a gravel road, where the barb wire meets the sky. MARY M. MORRIS > Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2015 15:08:46 -0400 > From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org > To: joni-digest@smoe.org > Subject: JMDL Digest V2014 #1902 > > > 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 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2015 11:51:59 -0700 > From: 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 > ------- ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2014 #1903 ****************************** ------- To post messages to the list,sendtojoni@smoe.org. Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe -------