‘Songs To Aging Children Come’ This is the title and a line from an early Joni Mitchell song I heard in the late sixties. In the song she says in beautiful language and this is a paraphrase: there is all this beauty around and don’t you see it. I do. And she ends the song saying: ‘songs to aging children come. This is one’. Back then and now I identified with the song. Another line was ‘people hurry by so quickly, don’t they hear the melodies…’
I saw all this beauty around me as a young adult and others were not seeing it. I could not understand that. Even today. I starting writing back then to the present to record this marvelous world before me and slow down my pace so I could capture this beauty. Then she ends the song: ‘Songs to aging children come. This is one.’ I had to grow up and still be child-like so I understood her song perfectly. I was not all alone.
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I have thousands of LP’s, CD’s and cassettes but always return to this one. My nerves are ragged and when this happens I “pull out” this 60’s album “Clouds” by Joni Mitchell. I did put it on cassette years ago.
The music is soothing and I will play it over and over and also search for other quiet music until this phase of mine passes. I can’t listen to uptempo music right now. I don’t think my episode will last too long. I am still sleeping whole nights so I am not overly concerned. I will play it by ear. The more I can soothe my nerves the quicker I will return to normal.
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