--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Dear Listers, > I always look for opportunities to spread the Joni > word and my greatest > triumph was hearing Joni quoted (after a comment by > me) by one the leading > experts on Domestic Violence. Judith Herman, author > of Trauma and Recovery, > is presently at work on a book on Justice. I was > interviewed by her because > of my lengthy court odyssey when trying to extricate > myself from my abusive > relationship. > > I couldn't resist telling her that, as I would sit > in court watching the > machinations of the various players in our criminal > justice (or maybe > injustice) system, I'd sing Joni songs to myself. My > then-husband's case once > got continued being bumped by an Ethiopian case > since Ethiopian interpreters > are harder to come by than Japanese ones. So, I'm > humming "Ethiopia" walking > out of the courtroom. The ADA says, "Joni couldn't > have a song about that!" > > Even though my ex-husband was found "not guilty" at > his jury trial, I felt > there was "poetic justice" of a sort when Judith > Herman opened her talk on > Justice at Radcliffe with the Joni quote from "Sex > Kills"...."Is Justice Just > Ice?....."
Have you found that there's a Joni quote for just about every situation in life? I have; moreso since I joined this list. I don't want to start up the Church of Joni thread again, as some found it offensive (I'm not that easily offended, but I'm a Canadian and therefore a wimp, or a weenie, I suppose); however, I find Joni quotes spring to mind and trip off my tongue much more easily than Bible and Shakespeare quotes. I'm sure that, at least once a day, I throw out a Joni-quote, sometimes deliberately, sometimes not; but when it's deliberate, I always wonder whether anyone will spot it. So far no one has. Sigh. Maybe I'm not being obvious enough. Maybe I need to use the really common ones like "both sides now" or "paved paradise; put up a parking lot." On the other hand, when I had my Joni screensavers on my PC at work (before they made us sign those documents saying we wouldn't download anything and we wouldn't alter anything & so on), everyone that spotted them on my computer said, "Oh! Joni Mitchell!" So, there you go. ===== Catherine Toronto ______________________________________________________________________ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca
