From: owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org (onlyJMDL Digest) To: onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Subject: onlyJMDL Digest V2007 #370 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 Tuesday, November 20 2007 Volume 2007 : Number 370 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: which joni constellation? ["Mark Scott" ] Re: which joni constellation? ["Kate Bennett" ] Spirit of the water ["Eric Taylor" ] Re: which joni constellation? [Mark-Leon Thorne ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 18:17:17 -0800 From: "Mark Scott" Subject: Re: which joni constellation? - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marianne Rizzo" > Now. . > if you had to pick ONE joni line that BEST reflects YOU what would > it be? > okay you can choose more than one if you want. . because it is hard > to > choose. . > > > > > Which Joni line best reflects you? > Over the years I've often thought this describes me. Lately it has been feeling particularly apt. I'm just living on nerves and feelings With a weak and a lazy mind Mark in Seattle ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 21:03:56 -0800 From: "Kate Bennett" Subject: Re: which joni constellation? "Well I'm learning, It's peaceful, with a good dog and some trees" That one sums up my attitude these days very nicely too! So does, the very simple "I think I understand" & "I am a woman of heart & mind" is the beautiful song I've been singing to myself these past few days. I'm heading off to Maui for thanksgiving & its going to be a full moon this weekend so I'm sure I'll be singing "once in awhile in a big blue moon there comes a night like this" ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 01:07:03 -0500 From: "Eric Taylor" Subject: Spirit of the water SHINE has restarted me thinking. What if every source of C02 was taxed according to the how many trees it would cost to plant to offset the carbon it produces? For instance one incandescent light bulb can add a ton of carbon to the atmosphere in its lifetime. One SUV can add millions. A redwood sapling costs under $100, can remove 50 pounds of carbon from the air every year and can live for thousands of years. Presently we weak humans spew 8 billion metric tons of carbon into the sky every year and it will hit 16 billion by 2020 if not much sooner. It requires about 40 redwoods to 'sequester' one ton of carbon from the atmosphere every year, converting it into oxygen and H20. So it would cost about the same amount of money to plant enough redwoods to reverse global warming as it is costing to fight one war in Iraq. Yeash!!! ET 'Spirit of the water Give us all the courage and the grace To make genius of this tragedy unfolding The genius to save this place.' ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 17:05:46 +1100 From: Mark-Leon Thorne Subject: Re: which joni constellation? I don't know if I can be summed up by one Joni song but what drew me to Joni's songs is that every time I heard one of her songs, I was blown away by how it described a situation in my life so closely. Here was a songwriter from the other side of the world, a female and 20 years older than me going through the same situations (no pun intended) as me. When I was about 20, I had a secret affair with a married man who lived a few streets away from me. He was a school teacher whose name was Richard. It was the wrong thing to do but I felt that I was totally in love with him. He had a good life with his partner and a good job at a Catholic girls' school and knowledge of me could have ruined his life totally. I protected him by remaining discreet but it never sat right with me. I felt that the song, Rikki Don't Lose That Number best fit my situation until later when I finally did the right thing and quietly departed. Years later, I ran into Richard and found he was still in the same relationship, living a blissful married life, renovating his old Victorian terrace and spending all his nights at home. His partner was unaware that we ever met. I was happy for him but, I, myself, was alone. That was the last time I saw Richard. Mark in Sydney ------------------------------ End of onlyJMDL Digest V2007 #370 ********************************* ------- 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)