{"id":404,"date":"2020-03-27T21:21:38","date_gmt":"2020-03-27T21:21:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marykoladascott.com\/temp\/?p=404"},"modified":"2022-09-13T00:05:15","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T00:05:15","slug":"jonis-both-sides-then","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marykoladascott.com\/temp\/2020\/03\/27\/jonis-both-sides-then\/","title":{"rendered":"Joni’s Both Sides Then"},"content":{"rendered":"\n[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.0.7″ custom_margin=”-47px||||false|false”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”3.26.7″ background_enable_image=”off”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.26.7″][et_pb_image src=”http:\/\/marykoladascott.com\/temp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/joni.jpg” align=”center” _builder_version=”4.0.7″ width=”52%” hover_enabled=”0″][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.0.7″ hover_enabled=”0″]

“I have always thought of myself as a painter derailed by circumstance.\u201d
— Joni Mitchell in a June 8, 2000, article by Deidre Kelly in the Toronto Globe (\u201c \u2018I sing my sorrow and I paint my joy\u2019\u201d)<\/em><\/p>\n

At the holidays, I often listen to \u201cRiver\u201d by Joni Mitchell:
\u201cIt\u2019s coming on Christmas\/They\u2019re cutting down trees\/They\u2019re putting up reindeer\/And singing songs of joy and peace \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t relate to traditional Christmas carols like \u201cWinter Wonderland\u201d and \u201cWhite Christmas.\u201d In Southern California, it\u2019s not likely to snow, although some of the local mountain peaks are frosted during colder winter days. I like this song that isn\u2019t really a Christmas song but one of remembrance and regret and a longing to escape from something you can\u2019t fix.<\/p>\n

Joni\u2019s lyrics are simple but amazing and sometimes they crop up in titles of my paintings (\u201cPretty Lies\u201d is a line from \u201cThe Last Time I Saw Richard\u201d). Like Joni, I consider myself \u201ca painter derailed by circumstance\u201d because writing diverted me from art when I was younger.<\/p>\n

Recently, I bought a copy of her newly released book, \u201cMorning Glory on the Vine,\u201d* that contains early songs and drawings by the singer\/songwriter. It\u2019s larger than I had pictured from the image on the ad but I wasn\u2019t disappointed. I collect art books and enjoy poring over the images and lyrics in her handwriting.<\/p>\n

The book originated from her sketchbook in the early \u201970s. Joni compiled the drawings and her lyrics in a limited edition, \u201cThe Christmas Book,\u201d which she presented to friends for Christmas.<\/p>\n

Her insights are timeless, and her images are remarkable, such as in \u201cChelsea Morning\u201d:
\u201cThere was milk and toast and honey and a bowl of oranges, too\/And the sun poured in like butterscotch and stuck to all my senses.\u201d<\/p>\n

The music takes me back to my teen years but I find it still resonates with me as I age.
\u201cOh, I wish I had a river\/I could skate away on \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

* Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019<\/em><\/p>\n[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”3.26.7″][\/et_pb_section]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kaleidoscope"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marykoladascott.com\/temp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marykoladascott.com\/temp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marykoladascott.com\/temp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marykoladascott.com\/temp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marykoladascott.com\/temp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=404"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/marykoladascott.com\/temp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":408,"href":"https:\/\/marykoladascott.com\/temp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404\/revisions\/408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marykoladascott.com\/temp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marykoladascott.com\/temp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marykoladascott.com\/temp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}