Saturday, January 30, 2010

oh joni

I never get tired of it, thank you Joni. . .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bFgxKov8Ts
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  1. mkendrick24January 30, 2010 at 7:49 PM

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6d2RG2Rl64&feature=related

    And here's a version with really nice newsreel footage.

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  2. mkendrick24January 30, 2010 at 8:01 PM

    P.S. I've been listening to this song for more than 20 years and still can't figure out what the lyric, "Amelia, it was just a false alarm" means. Any ideas?

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  3. rose duncanJanuary 31, 2010 at 6:16 AM

    You know, it's so evocative . . .sometimes I think that it has to do with making the wrong choices at a crucial moment . . .sometimes I think it has to do with falling in love with the wrong man . . .sometimes I think it just works as a larger statement about how we misread our life lessons. We think we can control things, and can't at all. So the exigencies we prepare for are those false alarms. Whenever she sings it, I think of what might have happened between Lae and wherever Amelia ended up. Thanks for the other link.

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  4. mkendrick24February 1, 2010 at 10:14 AM

    I've been thinking about the questions posed in the "Sorry" post. It seems to me that the most important element of a genuine apology is an explanation of "why". Not "why you made me do it", but "why it was wrong". The "why" needs to demonstrate that the perpetrator now understands his faulty thinking or his hidden-even-to-himself motives. I think we quite often don't recognize our own reasons for doing things, and that's what makes a real, true apology so difficult. But the demonstration of this new self-insight is the only assurance the apology recipient has that the offense won't happen again.

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  5. rose duncanFebruary 1, 2010 at 12:12 PM

    Yes, I've been thinking about it a lot because it's a plot point. I'm writing the pertinent scene over and over again and wondering how to make it work, or work as well as possible. Amazing how much we overuse 'sorry' and how little it ends up meaning, yet how much a genuine apology can change a relationship for the better.

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  6. Colleen LoehrFebruary 2, 2010 at 2:16 PM

    This was hauntingly beautiful and moving...thanks for posting it.

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