From: owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org (onlyJMDL Digest) To: onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Subject: onlyJMDL Digest V2014 #443 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 443 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- RE: JMDL Digest V2014 #1613 [Mary ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 25 Dec 2014 10:52:08 -0800 From: Mary Subject: RE: JMDL Digest V2014 #1613 Ingrid, thank you for a beautiful post. Lovely sentiments & ones to live by. GREETINGS FROM THE TRIPLE M Down a gravel road, where the barb wire meets the sky. MARY M. MORRIS > Date: Thu, 25 Dec 2014 04:55:52 -0500 > From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org > To: joni-digest@smoe.org > Subject: JMDL Digest V2014 #1613 > > > JMDL Digest Thursday, December 25 2014 Volume 2014 : Number 1613 > > > > ========== > > 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 JMDL Digest V2014 #1613 > ****************************** > > ------- > To post messages to the list,sendtojoni@smoe.org. > Unsubscribe by clicking here: > mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe > ------- ------------------------------ End of onlyJMDL Digest V2014 #443 ********************************* ------- Post messages to the list by clicking here:mailto:joni@smoe.org Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:onlyjoni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe