wonderful stories. thank you everybody.

it just makes you realise when you look at all these frustrated and difficult lives, how wise the young Joni Mitchell was when she realised that she was the one out of all the generations of wmen in her family whi was going to have her ambitions realised. It involved giving up her child for adoption, but how brilliantly wise to realise the rareness of the situation, when so young.

why do we get it so wrong - estimate our powers and weaknesses so misguidedly.


I suppose the perennial trouble is that we grow up in a world that is totally different from anything our parents experience. the only people who really love us, at our most unlovable age, are blinded by how wonderful they think we are.

all the best

bigalwhittle