From: owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org (onlyJMDL Digest) To: onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Subject: onlyJMDL Digest V2014 #438 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 Thursday, December 25 2014 Volume 2014 : Number 438 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- a toast to talent [ingrid lochrenberg ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 25 Dec 2014 11:53:53 +0200 From: ingrid lochrenberg Subject: a toast to talent A toast to talent seems such a sensible choice for a toast. Lets realise for our own futures that talent is something that can grow out of an exploration of the outer and inner worlds....that it possibly arises out a spirit of discovery....and that it requires keeping a belief that new awareness can dawn on one....and that there will sometimes be unexpected changes for the better in our lives. I am also reminded that Joni described artists as being connoisseurs of beauty, and I think that truths have an esthetic quality to them. Not that truths cannot and don't make one angry at times. I just want to encourage everybody here with creative ambitions, and its probably every single one us, to remember that unexpected turns to our lives could evoke incredible advances in our creativity, whether artistic/ intellectual or in our awareness. I am so thankful for this discussion forum, and for getting to know everyone. I will meditate on Joni's emphasis on love as I surmise that she might consider it (like Jane Austen did) as pivotal and central to creativity...one wouldn't differentiate between expressions of existence if it weren't for this. "the book of life is brief, but once the pages read....then all but love is dead, ...and that is my belief"....-don maclean. I LOVE the jmdl-ers! But, for the sake of love, may our lives and Joni 's life be not-so-brief, but carry on and on and on.... Sent from my Windows Phone ------------------------------ End of onlyJMDL Digest V2014 #438 ********************************* ------- Post messages to the list by clicking here:mailto:joni@smoe.org Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:onlyjoni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe