The scenario of Joni singing Woodstock and how sweet her voice sounded then - and all the sour jealousy that sprung up around her - I for one lived in the quite cynical Northeast where all pretend to have heart and soul and fall short, way short with not even the slightest embarrassment and along comes this beautiful woman, fascinated by our dirt I suppose and I can hear all the jealous women - jealous of her voice for it is the extreme of femininity that most of us here in the east has been suppressed by layers and layers of social ambition - each layer an adaptive phase brought on by the latest music/movie craze - so she, being the ever insightful one, wanting love as much as expression, changed........... then came the voices wanting the old Joni back, that wonderful trusting sweetness from a land surprizingly still holding onto much of its sweetness - blessed be the blasts of winter for it indeed curtails the business of changing for what ... i digress... the sake of nostalgia over what was lost?... It is refreshing to realize that along somewhere in the mid-70's Mitchell decided to be herself if only within the confines of her own mind - so yes beloved critics the surface is there for all of you to swallow up, spit out, twirl your venom on but again seeing Mitchell playing grandma ( for I hardly think she would perceive herself as being grandma any other way)she still had the child and the sweetness... As to the rest of the Joni on the Heart and Mind production I can only say: Please write a book soon!!!!!!! PS- I seem to remember a rant of mine many many many years ago about questions always unanswered questions - hearing her say these things live, well, I hope she sets out to answer the questions she perceives our own because my interest is not an ember yet S. PSS - First question: Is it intentional that all the different looks were created in time? And if the answer is yes, what is your take on the failure of men to do the same? And then finally, so how is it we let them lead in the first place?
