Name only One - one only - the best only!!!! (page 5)

mrsjones5

I appreciate your kind words Scully. If Purps what trying to make Backed Away feel better she didn't have to do it at my expense. But it's OK, I'll be alright.

moshe

Two out of three ain't bad

by Meatloaf

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purplesofa

yuck
Message Im really sorry you saw that.

those kinds of images stay with me a long time.

you did the right thing.........dont NOT tell stuff like that

purps

MrsJones,

I apologize for offending you. I got an IM from MsMcDuckett and I thought it was from you........above is the response I sent her that I thought I was sending to you.

She told me what the image was........and for me, I would probably have nightmares........and saying you might need therapy was in a joking manner. I don't think you need therapy at all. I was only implying that seeing something gross has a lasting negative effect. I thought you would be relieved as I am that backedaway would not intentionally post something offensive.

Probably the hardest thing is to be misunderstood. And no matter what is done to mend things it can't be done. I surely hope we can mend this.

We are close here and have alot in common. backed away is new here, shares his joy of his grandchild......has been encouraging to me. I did not want to see him leave........but believe me, I would not want it at anyones expense and neither would he.

I will watch how I post things from now on.

Sincere apologies,

purps

Terry

BOTH SIDES NOW----Joni Mitchell.

This song completely knocks me out.

A little story here......

I was 30. She was 25. I was the General Manager for RnR Graphics (an art company and etching studio). I'd put an ad in the newspaper looking for artists. We wanted designs we could turn into fine art etchings to pull on our press and sell to art galleries around the country.

It was 2:10 in the afternoon on a Friday. I know because I had just looked at the clock wondering why the 2:00 o'clock appointment wasn't there for the interview.

She walked in. She was frazzled and apologetic. Being late is no fun. Especially when you want to make a good impression. She had a large portfolio case. It unzipped and she laid out her designs for me to look at. I liked one of a boy on a swing. I offered her money for the plates and asked her if she could turn it into a multicolor print.

She agreed. I hired her.

Here's the thing.....all this is very clear in my mind now. Nothing short of head trauma could remove it. I see her as she was then. She wore a scarf around her hair. She later told me it was because she was so late she didn't have time to do anything with her hair.

I felt nothing in particular that I was aware of at the time. But, I remember talking to somebody a little later about the applicants. A strange thing came out of my mouth when they asked about this particular lady. I blurted out (much to my own surprise: "She's the most beautiful woman I've ever seen in my life!")

This stunned me because it came out of my own mouth and I didn't recall even noticing her looks!!

Three weeks later it is then end of the day at the studio and I ask her (her name is Ann) if she wanted to have dinner that night. She agreed and we set a time.

I arrived on time and she hadn't even started getting ready! It seemed rude, but; I realized she had never been on time in her life.

We ended up talking. Instead of her getting read for dinner we were talking. She took a record off her shelf and played it on her phonograph. It was Joni Mitchell's BOTH SIDES NOW.

The record ended up playing over and over and over and over....as we talked.......

I hated Joni Mitchell! Why? Well, it wasn't MY music. I was a music snob. I sneered at anything I hadn't discovered. But, Ann loved Joni Mitchell and especially this song.

"Listen to the lyric" she said quietly in the most wonderful voice my ears have ever heard.

I did.

"Rows and floes of angel hair. Ice cream castles in the air. Feathered canyons everywhere...I've looked at clouds that way."

I didn't like it.

But, the music played and we chatted.

By the next morning my life, my world, my sense of time and space were turned upside down and I didn't know who or what anything was anymore.

There was as though a rift in the very earth.

It took me several weeks to sort through it. I was completely unconscious of what was happening. Every part of me knew what was going on except my brain!

Then, one afternoon as Ann and I were having a bowl of soup at her favorite restaurant a brief walk from her house the Muzak started playing BOTH SIDES NOW and the sunlight poured through the window and spilled onto the tiled floor right up to our table. I looked into Ann's eyes and I started crying with such overwhelming happiness as I'd never known could be possible!

She looked at me and completely understood what had happened. She smiled at me and Joni Mitchell sang:

"Something's lost and something's gained in living everyday. I've looked at life from BOTH SIDES NOW; from win and lose and still somehow....it's cloud illusions I recall. I really don't know life at all."

She was the love of my life.

So I can't ever really start listening to this song. I mean; I try. Every once in a while when I need to punish myself I'll put it on and try and listen and the tears will overwhelm my soul. I am filled with the rush of memory so vivid and electric I cannot breath.........

That song. That one song says it all to me. It says everything there is to say.

BOTH SIDES NOW by Joni Mitchell.

I feel differently than when I heard it that first time. I can hear it from a different place now that there is a crack in my soul large enough to fit it in.

Rows and floes of angel hair
And ice cream castles in the air
And feather canyons evrywhere
Ive looked at clouds that way

But now they only block the sun
They rain and snow on evryone
So many things I would have done
But clouds got in my way
Ive looked at clouds from both sides now
From up and down, and still somehow
Its cloud illusions I recall
I really dont know clouds at all

Moons and junes and ferris wheels
The dizzy dancing way you feel
As evry fairy tale comes real
Ive looked at love that way

But now its just another show
You leave em laughing when you go
And if you care, dont let them know
Dont give yourself away

Ive looked at love from both sides now
From give and take, and still somehow
Its loves illusions I recall
I really dont know love at all

Tears and fears and feeling proud
To say I love you right out loud
Dreams and schemes and circus crowds
Ive looked at life that way

But now old friends are acting strange
They shake their heads, they say Ive changed
Well somethings lost, but somethings gained
In living evry day

Ive looked at life from both sides now
From win and lose and still somehow
Its lifes illusions I recall
I really dont know life at all
Ive looked at life from both sides now
From up and down, and still somehow
Its lifes illusions I recall
I really dont know life at all

FlyingHighNow

Only Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young fans will know this one, from their LP Deja Vu:

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Country Girl Medley: Whiskey Boot Hill / Down, Down, Down / "Country Girl" (I Think You're Pretty)

One that most of you have heard would beCrimson and Clover by Tommy James and the Shondells.

Maybe Purple Sofa was thinking you'd been so traumitized by the graphic that you would surely need therapy?

Name only One - one only - the best only!!!!

mrsjones5

moshe

drew sagan

Gary1914

purplesofa

Terry

FlyingHighNow

caligirl

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	yuck
Message	Im really sorry you saw that. those kinds of images stay with me a long time. you did the right thing.........dont NOT tell stuff like that purps