hi everyone. i love this thread.
my strangest seasonal joni association is "hejira," which for me will always be a *summer* album. i know, i know, despite the wintry cover and the chilly emotional tone and "thaw out or freeze"...but i discovered hejira right when i needed it, which happened to be the beginning of a long, hot, airconditionerless summer in brooklyn--when i'd left a man i had been living with for a while and moved, heartbroken, to a great apartment in a wonderful old school brooklyn neighborhood, fort greene. hejira got me to come out swinging again--i would play it on my crappy discman as i walked through fort greene park, and on the D/Q train stuck over the manhattan bridge, and on my tiny player in the kitchen, as i figured out all the joys of cooking for one again! "song for sharon," especially, that new york song, was like a gift joni had wrapped up and sent to me--honestly!--RIGHT when i needed it. so, despite all the iceskating visuals, for me hejira will always conjure summer--and brooklyn. and a tough but strengthening time. actually, though, because hejira was written on a long, lone cross country road trip--maybe i'm justified in the summer association-- don't know when joni took hers, but all of my own long road trips have come in the summer (and, of course, were ALSO airconditioner-less!) -- emily, in chicago
