First of all, let me write that I am now in a new place. Physically, emotionally, spiritually, etc. Places I should write. My computer is lost somewhere in that postal world. Remember-I want my MTV. Well, I want my Outlook Express.
Epiphanies--With Joni I suppose one could have one of these often, each different. With the words and music of the albums I have been taken many places, introspective treks throughout the realms of my mind and soul. Yet, at those times I was awakened to things that I had already known, in some way or another, she made some of them clearer, solidified others. DED, as I wrote at the time, was the album that opened my mind to avenues, thoughts that I had not traveled, known before. It was then, as my eyes welled up, that I realized that I was no better than anyone else and that my ideas of my own superiority were not only dangerous but pitiful and made me even less than those that I had labeled as of a defective nature, standing, importance than my own. It was 'Good Friends' that will forevermore, in my mind, be a tune that reminds me of that incomparable one from Ohio. It was there that I realized that I not only did not have all the answers, I didn't have most of them. It was there that I knew that I had not worked hard enough for others, had not done enough to make the world a better place. It was there that I finally knew that Joni Mitchell is a genius, in more ways than this mind can explain in words. It was there that it came to me that I had not been generous, not forgiving enough, not a man that I was proud to be. Despite what is said about this album, I found it to be one that told me to try harder, to examine further, and to give others more than the benefit of the doubt. mack -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ .
