Showing posts with label Joni Mitchell. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Joni Mitchell. Show all posts
Thursday, March 21, 2024

Walking / O California (the landscape of my younger days)

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"Walking, ideally, is a state in which the mind, the body, and the world are aligned, as though they were three characters finally in c...
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Sunday, November 5, 2023

Looking both ways, looking up, looking outward, looking inward / Love Has Many Faces

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* Two  timely book recommendations.   A first cousin who lives in Florida sent me a copy of The Seed Keeper, which takes place where our f...
Friday, July 28, 2023

Dreams and Memories and Left Hand

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Last night I dreamed I looked in the mirror and saw Amelia Earhart.  In 1979, I was fortunate to see and hear Joni Mitchell perform this son...
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Saturday, January 15, 2022

A Story For Right Now: Barbara Earl Thomas / More of one thing leading to another

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Barbara Earl Thomas has been an inspiration to me since I first learned about her on the cover of a Real Change newspaper and found that i...
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Friday, December 17, 2021

Joni shining

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SHINE Oh let your little light shine Let your little light shine Shine on Wall Street and Vegas Place your bets Shine on the fishermen With ...
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Saturday, August 14, 2021

"... you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone ..."

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Sitting inside with the air cleaner on, along with an air conditioner, what came to mind was Joni Mitchell's song that I first heard in ...
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Monday, July 19, 2021

Early morning in July with almost finished mandala / "... the enormous invulnerable beauty ..." / Painting Dream / The horse I drew when I was 5 years old / "Wild Things Run Fast"

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  This early morning I suddenly remembered a poem I first read when I was 18 or 19 years old, at which time I had determined that I was deci...
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Monday, May 17, 2021

Mujer de corazon y mente

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A few days ago, a friend texted me a photo of Joni Mitchell while I was taking a long walk with another friend.  My startled first thought w...
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Wednesday, December 16, 2020

Born 250 years ago / Judgement of the Moon and Stars (Ludwig's Tune)

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Tuesday, June 2, 2020

"It's Dark Outside" (Yiddish love song) / "Shadows and Light" (Every picture has its shadows and it has some source of light) / "Dark Eyes" (the falling gods of speed and steel)

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Friday, November 8, 2019

Recuerdos de noviembre

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Monday, May 13, 2019

Mandala #42: For Deven (Affirmative!)

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"... Those crazy crows always making a commotion ..." (from "This Place," by Joni Mitchell) Back ...
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Tuesday, February 26, 2019

"... before the last revolving year is through..."

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Thank you to  Sabine  for bringing this heartening photo to my attention: "... There'll be new dreams, mayb...
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Wednesday, July 18, 2018

Spirit

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Spirit of the water Give us all the courage and the grace To make genius of this tragedy unfolding The genius to save this place. © 200...
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Friday, January 13, 2017

Self-Portrait with "you" / the mystery of encounter and relationship

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A few days ago, I started re-reading a book  written by a Zen teacher with Jewish roots.  He had v...
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Sunday, May 1, 2016

Journeys / Being of use

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Journeys bring power and love back into you.  If you can't go somewhere, move in the passageways of the self. They ...
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Thursday, April 14, 2016

One Week In April Meditation

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Saturday, November 7, 2015

Joni Mitchell is 72 years old today

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Make sure to listen to:   Love Has Many Faces: A Quartet, A Ballet, Waiting To Be Danced Happy Birthday, Joni!
Friday, July 3, 2015

"Give us all the courage and the grace"

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Sparkle on the ocean Eagle at the top of a tree The phrasing of the first two lines of "This Place," written by Joni Mitche...