From: owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org (onlyJMDL Digest) To: onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Subject: onlyJMDL Digest V2014 #566 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 Saturday, April 4 2015 Volume 2014 : Number 566 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Fear not for Joni [Miguel Arrondo ] Re: While we're waiting... [lcs4bike@yahoo.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 04 Apr 2015 00:58:18 -0300 From: Miguel Arrondo Subject: Fear not for Joni Hello, friends. Trying to catch all the possible news on Joni Mitchell4s health condition, but there are so scarce. And in the process, regaining the habit of reading these mails os yours... Stories like that of Steve Danielson are really amazing, I honestly envy you, man Found this, too, in the web: "I saw Joni sitting at a Coffee shop on Hornby, sitting outside, smoking like a bog fire. I barely recognized her. Her hair and the sad cast of her face, was haunting." Not so encouraging... My humble way of managing this situation: have no fear for Joni, she4s above health troubles or even the inevitable end we all must face. Her words and music will be sounding in this world long after we4re all gone and forgotten. She will not. The last two days, I just try to play her songs and think about those lyrics that really made a difference in my life. I hope she gets well soon, but it`s not her I fear for. She4s inmortal. She4ll live for ever. Best wishes for Joni and for all of you, big bunch of unknown-but-close-to-me people, scattered around the globe. Miguel - --- El software de antivirus Avast ha analizado este correo electrsnico en busca de virus. http://www.avast.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2015 01:53:39 -0500 From: lcs4bike@yahoo.com Subject: Re: While we're waiting... My favorite Texan wrote: It's been one of those can't keep off the turntable when I'm not playing Joni albums. Hi Happy Tex, The truth struck me in what you said about the turntable. The visual of the reality of still spinning Joni's music like the Circle Game after all these years... Yeah... Joni really is THAT good!!! And even if the LP or CD isn't actually spinning, as the seasons go 'round and 'round so do Joni's lyrics and unique emotional cords in my head and heart. Her auditory art never fails to strike a chord with me in my daily living experiences. Joni might be retired and she might be sick right now, but she is very much present to me in her recorded music. I never got to see her perform in concert, but I was able at Ruby Lake to look deep into her beautiful blue eyes and tell her I think the world of her. And each time I spin one of Joni's albums, I get the same effect as the motion (moved with emotion) I'm left with after having looked at the visual message of the picture and the brush strokes left in the paint on an incredibly textured Van Gogh painting. There is one visiting here in Arkansas right now at Crystal Bridges, a Walton family (Walmart) free to the public museum in Rogers, Arkansas. Van Gogh's presence and message in his painting was life changing for me. Recorded music is the painting we have even when the guitar is no longer actually being stroked as the performing art is no longer being performed. The artist is still there for us in the stroke marks of the sound. I wish I could see Joni's paintings. If I had one wish to be granted, that would be it. To look at Joni Mitchell's paintings like I was able to look at Vincent Van Gogh's recently. Life is for learning only because of the incredible sharing of these artists. So much gratitude and a heart full of prayers for Joni... Love, Laura in Arkansas Sent from my iPhone ------------------------------ End of onlyJMDL Digest V2014 #566 ********************************* ------- Post messages to the list by clicking here:mailto:joni@smoe.org Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:onlyjoni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe