From: owner-mad-mission-digest@smoe.org (mad-mission-digest) To: mad-mission-digest@smoe.org Subject: mad-mission-digest V3 #38 Reply-To: mad-mission@smoe.org Sender: owner-mad-mission-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-mad-mission-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk * If you ever wish to unsubscribe, send an email to * mad-mission-digest-request@smoe.org * with ONLY the word unsubscribe in the body of the email * . * For the latest information on Patty's tour dates, go to: * http://www.spectra.net/~ducksoup/pattyg/patttyg.htm * OR * go to http://www.amrecords.com * then click "tour" and fill in the blanks :) * . * PLEASE :) when you reply to this digest to send a post TO the list, * change the subject to reflect what your post is about. A subject * of Re: mad-mission-digest V3 #xxx or the like gives readers no clue * as to what your message is about. mad-mission-digest Thursday, February 11 1999 Volume 03 : Number 038 Today's Subjects: ----------------- MM: Kicking [diamondmask@juno.com] MM: Favorite Patty songs [Dana ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 18:02:11 -0800 From: diamondmask@juno.com Subject: MM: Kicking >*sigh*...i'm still kicking myself that i didn't buy one of those when i >first saw patty...*sigh* >i can't even remember if it was too small or not....i just remember >thinking..."do i NEED another concert t-shirt?" of course i did!!!! what >the heck was i thinking, anyways?!?! >*still kicking myself after about 3 years!!!* You must really, really be tired...... :-o john in sumner wa ___________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866] ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 21:56:13 -0500 From: Dana Subject: MM: Favorite Patty songs Dana wrote: This is a letter I just wrote someone from another list who is going to see Patty with Lucinda, but has never heard Patty before- so I am sending off an emergency Patty care package- it ties in with the discussion at hand, as I try to explain my passion for Patty's music to the uninitiated. My step-daughter, Jaime was 19, and had never heard her > before. I got her the CD and she remembers that whole summer now by that > Living With Ghosts CD. Sweet Lorraine is her song- my husband being > alcoholic and our home life just like a few lines in that song at times. > He is in rehab for a month right now, and hopefully things will get > better. I want to say that I am not the mother in that song- I would do > anything for my kids- but I feel for Jaime. It is just like that. At > times, Let Him Fly has been my song, but I somehow can't quite do it in > reality. > Another anecdote. When Flaming Red came out, June 24, we were leaving > for North Carolina to visit my brother's family. Jayne, now 20, Mike, 15 > amd Arielle, 11, and my Shi Tsu and Jayne's Maltese and piles of luggage > filled my Voyager- We left about 10:30 at night to get past New York > City with less traffic- Jayne brought a new tape for me, James- which I > quickly learned to love on that trip- and then when the kids fell asleep > somewhere on the other side of Pennsylvania, I put in Flaming Red with a > sigh of contentment and just cruised along soaking in all these new > Patty songs. When I ever got to Mary, the tears just started streaming > down my face- that song just gets me every time. For one thing, it is > amazing to me that Patty could write a song like that about her > grandmother- two generations away- like she knew her grandmother as a > real person, just living in a different time and space.- Not just an old > lady- a real person with hopes and personality and everything- I feel > the same about my own grandmother who died just before I got pregnant > with my oldest daughter, Jayne- I know we would have been kindred > spirits had we been the same age- we were, even with a fifty year > difference in age. I still think she is with me sometimes- especially if > I am out hiking or in a flower garden- she gave me the love of the woods > and flowers. She is the reason I am a nurse, like her. I must have > played that song repetitively 15 times or so in the dark on that drive, > until I knew it by heart. I don't know how Patty can even sing it > without crying. > Enough- Dana I hope my kids feel that way about me in the end- What a tribute. ------------------------------ End of mad-mission-digest V3 #38 ********************************