From: owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org (onlyJMDL Digest) To: onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Subject: onlyJMDL Digest V2006 #77 Reply-To: joni@smoe.org Sender: owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk Archives: http://www.smoe.org/lists/onlyjoni Websites: http://www.jmdl.com http://www.jonimitchell.com Unsubscribe: mailto:onlyjoni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe onlyJMDL Digest Wednesday, March 15 2006 Volume 2006 : Number 077 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- [none] ["Marianne Rizzo" ] Re: South by Southwest Music Festival [Patti Witten ] Re: Half Baked or (SJC) [LCStanley7@aol.com] Re: 5:12Pm thoughts [Catherine McKay ] Terrific Tuesday....sunny, somewhat warm [Peep Richman Subject: [none] written on your spirit this sad song written on your spirit this sad song written on your spirit this sad song from joni to us to patti to me and bree to you _________________________________________________________________ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today - it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 07:15:18 -0500 From: Patti Witten Subject: Re: South by Southwest Music Festival Julius wrote: > I fly out to Austin, TX at the crack o' dawn tomorrow to attend the huge SxSW > music conference and showcase. I'll be there for a week. Julius (and anyone else going to SXSW) you must check out Alexi Murdoch, my newest favorite songwriter. Sat March 19 Town Lake Stage at Auditorium Shores 5:00pm http://www.aleximurdoch.com/ http://myspace.com/aleximurdoch Patti - -- http://pattiwitten.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 09:04:42 -0500 From: "Bree Mcdonough" Subject: Half Baked or (SJC) Something about Marianne... While polishing off the last we have in the house of Ben & Jerry's ice cream this morning...(sorry..babe)..flavor..half baked (chunks of brownies mingled with cookie dough)...oh so good and way early for me to be eating ice cream...anyway..I thought I would relay a little story/incident from last night. Marianne was at her job yesterday...an exhausting job..teaching inner city school kids...then after leaving school she goes to see her father at hospice . Something she has done everyday since early January...the woman is physically..emotionally drained. She got home about 8:15P last night ..I was upstairs in the bedroom watching the repeat of American Masters...The Music Of Joni Mitchell. In her need to relax ..to unwind..she proceeds to have a few glasses of wine..and possibly a few tokes of smoke? She comes upstairs.. sits at the foot of bed and proceeds to write down some of Joni wisdoms...and grooving to the music. Next thing she's up..and downstairs she goes..which I follow... I hear her dialing the phone...I ask her ..who you calling..."I'm calling PBS to pledge some money." (I forgot to mention the station was having a fund drive with breaks in between American Masters) SHe told she wants to give money to them for showing Joni ..BUT DOESN'T WANT ANY MORE MAIL..junk mail..to come to the house..not even from PBS. SO she finally gets to speak to a volunteer at the station ..gives her name,...address..phone #..then I hear her say to the person on the other end of the phone the following: "I want to give but I don't want any more mail to come to my house..no more junk mail!! Now if I could be assured you wouldn't send me anything ...I would donate." I heard Marianne saying again.."Are you sure I wouldn't get any?" Then incredulously I heard her tell the volunteer ..."Send me a letter telling me that you won't send any mail to my house and I'll send you a donation." "I want it in writing!" With that...Marianne hung up. ................................................ I said to her..you realize.... you just told that woman to send you MAIL telling you that they won't send you any mail ???? We'll see if that piece of mail arrives. This is the same woman who asked the cloistered nun ...IF she had hair under there..meaning her habit. The Dominican nun said ...yes...and took off her habit to show us. I kid you not!! When Laura visited us last summer she wanted us to drive with her on a little day trip to Elmira ,NY to see a friend of hers..who happens to be a cloistered nun. That was quite an experience ..there was even a partition ..the three of us on one side and the sister on the other. Thought I share...thanks for reading.... little things I will always remember...it's the little things.. Love... Bree ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 10:01:47 EST From: LCStanley7@aol.com Subject: Re: Half Baked or (SJC) Bree wrote: While polishing off the last we have in the house Hi Bush woman, You polished something else recently too didn't you? Lady bugs ring a bell? Ladies and gentle bugs on this list, be it known that Bree polishes lady bugs with Pledge before spraying them with Raid. She does she does she does she does she does she does! of Ben & Jerry's ice cream How gay. In her need to relax ..to unwind..she proceeds to have a few glasses of wine..and possibly a few tokes of smoke? So that's how she unwhines? She comes upstairs.. I thought you said you weren't going there. ASIDE: I just got the strangest phone call. We always let the answering machine get it so here's the message: Ring, ring, ring... hey this is Les, I'm underneath the house, are you there? Hello... "Send me a letter telling me that you won't send any mail to my house and I'll send you a donation." "I want it in writing!" With that...Marianne hung up. Thanks for the good laugh. I've heard of people using creative ways not to give donations so they don't feel guilty but this is the best! I think she's been watching too many penguin movies lately... got that wobbling down good in her head now. I said to her..you realize.... you just told that woman to send you MAIL telling you that they won't send you any mail ???? We'll see if that piece of mail arrives. I bet Alan will deliver it certified mail while she's in the shower... and that won't stop him will it? This is the same woman who asked the cloistered nun ...IF she had hair under there..meaning her habit. The Dominican nun said ...yes...and took off her habit to show us. Bree? She took off her habit? Do you know what a habit is? This might be wishful thinking on your part, but she only took off her veil if I remember correctly. I don't think even Marianne would be brave enough to ask her if she has hair under her habit. I kid you not!! When Laura visited us last summer she wanted us to drive with her on a little day trip to Elmira ,NY to see a friend of hers..who happens to be a cloistered nun. She's a dayayay tripper... That was quite an experience ..there was even a partition ..the three of us on one side and the sister on the other. Yeah she was behind the partition for protection from people who eat chunky Ben and Jerry ice cream in the morning, spray Lady Bugs with Pledge before Raid, make harassing phone calls to PBS, and ask nuns rather personal questions about hair... Love, Laura ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 11:51:48 -0500 (EST) From: Catherine McKay Subject: Re: 5:12Pm thoughts - --- Peep Richman wrote: > Just read the Digest (today's I think) and I have > some thoughts, etc. to share. > I can't wait to see "March of the > Penguins"....soon. Thanks for the beautifully > written, descriptive and insightful sentences, Bree. It is a lovely film. I never knew anything about penguins before. In fact, I had never even thought much about penguins. I was surprised at how tiny they are. I can't get over the fact that any creature can exist in the inhospitable climate of Antarctica. > Kira, I am really a child of the 60's and found > your thoughts so very stimulating. Oh how I agree: > we MUST stop competing (ALL generations) and work > together toward continued and consistent positive > change. After Kira posted, the words to a song started coming in to my head, but it took me all day to figure out whose song it was. Mike and the Mechanics' "Living years" was the song. "Every generation blames the one before, And all of our frustrations come beating on your door, I know that I'm a prisoner to all my father held so dear, I know that I'm a hostage to all his hopes and fears, I just wish I could have told him in the living years." I googled the first line to get the rest, and whaddya know - the website I came to includes a couple of extracts from Joni songs too. http://www.edchange.org/multicultural/arts/age_songs.html Apart from that, that particular website isn't all that great. I suppose it's meant to be a jumping-off point. There are many more songs I'm sure we all could think of that fit the generation gap/wars theme. Many of Joan's songs certainly fit the bill. Anyone that wants to take up that thread is welcome to - I've got to get back to my friggin' house painting. My father, who died on March 24, 1981, > lived in "The Greatest Generation"...the mighty > depression and the unmentionable horrors of World > War 11. I never realized, until you wrote, Kira, > that, indeed, I live in that generation's shadow. > My father was a simple man; a man of so few > possessions. Yet, after his death, my mother and I > discovered, hidden deep within his closet, a huge > oblong box of approximately 40 pairs of brand new, > never worn shoes. Certainly this speaks to the > immense poverty imprint of the Depression. My Dad hung on to everything too and he kept very good care of all his things. He still had the suit he was married in, and it still fit him (sometimes - he would go up and down in weight), but it never looked out of style either. He was very good at recycling and in thinking about the future and the ramifications of what we do now on what comes later. > Upon reflection, there were some/many of the > baby-boomers who appeared to protest for the sheer > "enjoyment" of protesting. I wasn't one of them. I > protested...attended every March....with Martin...oh > what a memory...I was extremely serious. Yet, I > gladly let my bra fly out the car window one > afternoon, got caught in the feminist's exploration > of their thoughts, and dare I say, complex > feelings?! I tossed my birth-control pills off a > cliff in Big Sur one August afternoon. Come to > think of it, I have so many very, very complex > feelings about my generation. Kira, you ignited my > immediate exploration, that has been stagnant, I > fear....and I thank you. There are a lot of things about the "boomer" generation (of which I am part) that piss me off. For one thing, the word "boomer". (Let's not get started on "words we hate" again!) It has always annoyed me the way "we" think that "we" are the be-all and end-all and somehow more special than anyone else. It may be that previous generations thought that way too. I can see how younger generations might be resentful that we lot seem to be constantly in the spotlight. I live in fear of growing old with so many others and feel for the younger ones that are either going to have to take care of us or... take care of us. I also resent the fact that so many one-time idealists turned into capitalist pigs. (Some of these pigs were never idealists, it's true.) I'm not condemning capitalism per se. It's the utter magnitude of the greed of some that disgusts me, as in the Walmart (but you know, there may be more) discussion. I don't think any of us needs to be that rich. There's plenty to share. And there's that constant apparent need to have more of everything. Thanks, Kira, for bringing this up. My daughter was born in 1987 and my son in 1990. Based on their friends I've met, and other young people I meet through work, I have a lot of hope for your generation. There are lots of very kind, very good young people out there, and I like them a lot. Catherine Toronto - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 09:05:34 -0800 (PST) From: Peep Richman Subject: Terrific Tuesday....sunny, somewhat warm Hi Joni-soul-mates, Just finished reading yesterday's Digest. Dearest Cassy, I am so sorry for all your medical and related horrors. What a brave soul you are, my dear. An inspiration, too!!!! And very insightful. I think I saw James Blunt on Oprah....but I'm not sure. The song I heard was magnificent, as was the harp playing. The CD had the word "sacred" in it. Is this James Blunt??? David, as far the NYC Sopranos....agree COMPLETELY. Em, try this..."an early bloomer could have given birth to a late BLOOMER!!!!!! DRAT....just got a phone call...TROUBLE in someones life and I'm off and running. I need Paz' e-mail address. Marianne and Bree...will write later. Had some thoughts to share but the trouble is urgent.... later, Bo - --------------------------------- Yahoo! Travel Find great deals to the top 10 hottest destinations! ------------------------------ End of onlyJMDL Digest V2006 #77 ******************************** ------- Post messages to the list by clicking here: mailto:joni@smoe.org Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:onlyjoni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe ------- Siquomb, isn't she? (http://www.siquomb.com/siquomb.cfm)