From: owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org (onlyJMDL Digest) To: onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Subject: onlyJMDL Digest V2012 #377 Reply-To: joni@smoe.org Sender: owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk Website:http://www.jonimitchell.com Unsubscribe:mailto:onlyjoni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe onlyJMDL Digest Tuesday, November 6 2012 Volume 2012 : Number 377 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- from early days ["Pat Boland" ] Re: Joni & Neil [Anita G ] from early days ps ["Pat Boland" ] Re: from early days ["Pat Boland" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2012 01:58:25 +1000 From: "Pat Boland" Subject: from early days Excerpt from my own comment re: discussing of other artists on Joni Mitchell group: "Ya know, we are right about at the 50 year mark in Joni's career history of which the Cellar and we who were there, Brian S. Moss, Linda Hakes (nee: Barr) and myself are a small part. My view of this phenomenon is a little different than most and, having been a performer myself with zero 'degrees of separation', through the years I have of course paid keen attention to those other artists who flowed through Joni's life as I did. For example at or around the same time that I was seeing her on the occasional weekend, talking and laughing and jamming and playing her interim sets, she was also letting Tom Rush crash at her place in Detroit, running into Jimi Hendrix, Steven Stills and Leonard Cohen on the road and on and on and as the years have passed so many others... and, for my part, I really don't think we can be focused on Joni without including so many artists who shared her journey, every step of which is history. ♥ Cheers ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2012 13:39:17 +0000 From: Anita G Subject: Re: Joni & Neil > I noticed that both songwriters cling to these parental gifts to this day: > Joni to her paint and Neil to his toy trains. I don't know quite what that > means but it seems important. > > Jim L'Hommedieu Jim, I imagine that sense of importance comes from what therapists would probably describe as transitional objects. Forgive me if I am teaching my Granny to suck eggs, but a transitional object is an "object" in that it's a tangible thing, (like Joni's paints and Neil's trains) which acts as a stand in for important attachment figures, like a parent or carer. When children have trouble maintaining a sense that the parent exists and will return (like the traumatic hospital visits that Joni and Neil had) the transitional object represents the continuation of the parent and their love. They can be very important in our inner worlds and can help sooth anxiety. Anita ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2012 02:12:00 +1000 From: "Pat Boland" Subject: from early days ps ps - http://www.angelfire.com/pq2/phenryboland/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2012 11:13:28 +1000 From: "Pat Boland" Subject: Re: from early days Wow! You really ARE a lucky girl! ;o) > On 05/11/2012, Pat Boland wrote: >> > For example at or around the >> same time that I was seeing her on the occasional weekend, talking and >> laughing and jamming and playing her interim sets, she was also letting >> Tom Rush crash at her place in Detroit, running into Jimi Hendrix, >> Steven >> Stills and Leonard Cohen on the road and on and on and as the years >> have >> passed so many others... > > > She may have had Rush, Hendrix, Stills, Cohen at her place, but I've > had Dave Blackburn and Robin Adler at mine. > > Eat your heart out, Almost Birthday Girl....... > Anita ------------------------------ End of onlyJMDL Digest V2012 #377 ********************************* ------- Post messages to the list by clicking here:mailto:joni@smoe.org Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:onlyjoni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe