From: owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org (onlyJMDL Digest) To: onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Subject: onlyJMDL Digest V2014 #567 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 Sunday, April 5 2015 Volume 2014 : Number 567 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- RE: JMDL Digest V2014 #1933 [Rebecca Alexander ] Re: Joni Article in The Guardian (UK) [Garret ] Conflicting stories ["Jim L'Hommedieu" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2015 11:07:22 -0400 From: Rebecca Alexander Subject: RE: JMDL Digest V2014 #1933 Lovely sentiments Laura. I was thinking this morning about the first time I learned about Joni. It was the summer of 1972 in Indpls. A friend played Blue for me & then told me that Joni had written "Both Sides Now" ( I was a huge Judy Collins fan).Over the yrs I just kept listening. I love the layer stuff as much as early recordings --sometimes more.what a creative mind & heart she has. I never got to see her in person or meet her --but I played holes in my old recordings & have a few videos of her concerts.B Get well Joni....Becky Sent via the Samsung Galaxy NoteB. 3, an AT&T 4G LTE smartphone - -------- Original message -------- From: JMDL Digest Date: 04/04/2015 3:03 AM (GMT-05:00) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2014 #1933 JMDL DigestB B B B B B B B Saturday, April 4 2015B B B B B B B B Volume 2014 : Number 1933 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: - -------- B Re: While we're waiting...B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B [lcs4bike@yahoo.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.B 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!!!B 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.B Her auditory art never fails to strike a chord with me in my daily living experiences.B Joni might be retired and she might be sick right now, but she is very much present to me in her recorded music.B 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.B Van Gogh's presence and message in his painting was life changing for me.B 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.B If I had one wish to be granted, that would be it.B To look at Joni Mitchell's paintings like I was able to look at Vincent Van Gogh's recently.B Life is for learning only because of the incredible sharing of these artists.B So much gratitude and a heart full of prayers for Joni... Love, Laura in Arkansas Sent from my iPhone - ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2014 #1933 ****************************** - ------- To post messages to the list,sendtojoni@smoe.org. Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe - ------- ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2015 23:40:14 +0100 From: Garret Subject: Re: Joni Article in The Guardian (UK) Oh gosh. I disagree entirely. I thought thw article summed up my feelings and my experience exactly. Each to their own. Now let's go and listen to the music as that's what brought us all here in the first place :) Garret On 4 Apr 2015 22:17, "Kevin Foehr" wrote: > Hi, > That Guardian article was horrible. B Talking about her death was in very > poor > taste and complaining abut everything from the music biz to Joni herself > was > very tiresome. > To the author I say, give her a break, please! B Love her music, love her > for > her genius and for all the joy and deep emotion she brought to our lives. > B But leave her personal life alone. B Accept her as she is; she could > never > match the exalted status of perfection many of us put her on in our youth. > B > She is unique; she is unlike the rest of us. (And thank god TS is not > going to > play her in a film; what a travesty that would have been, imo!) B I think > she > is an inspired soul, a musical genius,B and, as Aristotle said, B "There > is no > great genius without aB mixture of madness". > B Enjoy the genius accept her "madness" and love her now when she needs it. > Kevin F. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2015 23:00:43 -0400 From: "Jim L'Hommedieu" Subject: Conflicting stories 1. Was she non-responsive or did she just faint? 2. Is she still in intensive care or not? 3. Did she get surgery or not? 4. Does the lack of news mean that she wants it that way? 5. Since she lacks parents, a manager, and a spouse, does she have any support group? You know, is she making her own decisions, or is it Kilauren? Jim ------------------------------ End of onlyJMDL Digest V2014 #567 ********************************* ------- Post messages to the list by clicking here:mailto:joni@smoe.org Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:onlyjoni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe