From: owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org (onlyJMDL Digest) To: onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Subject: onlyJMDL Digest V2014 #434 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 Monday, December 22 2014 Volume 2014 : Number 434 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- "Wild" [Michael Sentance ] re: Joni's Christmas tree [c Karma ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2014 11:38:58 -0500 From: Michael Sentance Subject: "Wild" Several reviews of the film "Wild" cite Joni Mitchell as part of the film's soundtrack. But there's no Joni on the released CD/soundtrack. Curious. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2014 03:56:25 +0000 From: c Karma Subject: re: Joni's Christmas tree Well, you have to love this google machine. Magic. You type in Joni Mitchell Christmas Tree, and this pops upfrom her recent NPR interview in mid-December: Part of your time in the hospital as a little girl was being told you could never walk again. Well, not exactly told, but intimated. Here's the way it went down. You know, it's coming close to Christmas. I got my tree in my room and everything, and a doctor  young doctor who got polio, so he's in a wheelchair  comes into my room. And I say to him, "I want to go home for Christmas." And he says, "You can't." And I said, "Why not?" "Because you can't walk." I said, "Well, what if I walked?" He said, "You can't even stand up." I said, "Well, what if I stood and walked?" And he did this: He looked at the ceiling, he heaved a big sigh, looked at his knees, and rolled himself out of the room. Right? He's like, "I'm not going to argue with this kid," you know? You know, 'cause he was never going to walk again, so  but I didn't give up. I could not accept that I was going to be a pretzel for the rest of my life. It just was  and my back was severely twisted and, you know, I had no balance, so he was right. I couldn't even  I was a broken doll.You did it on your own, as a kid.On my own, with just my Christmas-tree light on. So Christmas to me is all about the tree. I have to put up a tree. And I have two ornaments off that polio tree left, from the original ones. They're papier-mache, and so every year they fall apart more, but I've got two left. To me, that's the best part of Christmas, is the tree. 'Cause I  and I just kept working my legs, working my legs, and then one day I said to them, "I want to try and walk." So they wheeled me into this corridor, and they lifted me up and I put my arms on these chrome bars, and I pulled myself along to the end. I turned myself around, I came back, and then I said, "Now can I go home?" "Well, you'll have to wear braces. You'll have to wear," you know, "metal-lined boots. You'll have to have a wheelchair." I said, "Look, my bedroom's on the second floor. My parents are going to really  I'll be a nuisance to them," you know? "I can't be a nuisance to them," you know? "So I'm gonna have to drag myself up those goddamn stairs, one way or another." So I did. So that kind of attitude, you know, it's the fighting Irish, eh? I guess that's what it is. ------------------------------ End of onlyJMDL Digest V2014 #434 ********************************* ------- Post messages to the list by clicking here:mailto:joni@smoe.org Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:onlyjoni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe