mitchell garden law
we’ve got to get ourselves back to the garden – joni mitchel
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full woodstock lyrics:
I came upon a child of God
He was walking along the road
And I asked him, “Where are you going?”
And this he told me“I’m going on down to Yasgur’s farm
I’m gonna join in a rock ‘n’ roll band
I’m gonna camp out on the land
I’m gonna try an’ get my soul free”We are stardust
We are golden
And we’ve got to get ourselves
Back to the garden
garden-enough ness
“Then can I walk beside you?
I have come here to lose the smog
And I feel to be a cog in something turning”“Well, maybe it is just the time of year
Or maybe it’s the time of man
I don’t know who l am
But you know, life is for learning”We are stardust
We are golden
And we’ve got to get ourselves
Back to the gardenBy the time we got to Woodstock
We were half a million strong
And everywhere, there was song and celebrationAnd I dreamed I saw the bombers
Riding shotgun in the sky
And they were turning into butterflies
Above our nationWe are stardust
Billion year old carbon
We are golden
Caught in the devil’s bargain
And we’ve got to get ourselves
Back to the garden
legit freedom will only happen if it’s all of us.. and in order to be all of us.. has to be sans any form of measuring, accounting, people telling other people what to do
how we gather in a space is huge.. need to try spaces of permission where people have nothing to prove to facil curiosity over decision making.. because the finite set of choices of decision making is unmooring us.. keeping us from us..
ie: imagine if we listened to the itch-in-8b-souls 1st thing everyday & used that data to connect us (tech as it could be.. ai as augmenting interconnectedness)
need to try the unconditional part of left to own devices ness..
there’s a legit use of tech (nonjudgmental exponential labeling) to facil the seeming chaos of a global detox leap/dance.. the unconditional part of left-to-own-devices ness.. for (blank)’s sake.. and we’re missing it
ie: whatever for a year.. a legit sabbatical ish transition
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[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodstock_(song)]:
Woodstock” is a song written by Canadian-American singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell. At least four versions of the song were released in 1970. Mitchell’s own version was first performed live in 1969 and appeared in April 1970 on her album Ladies of the Canyon and as the B-side to her single “Big Yellow Taxi”. A version by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young appeared on their album Déjà Vu in March 1970 and became a staple of classic rock radio and the best-known version of the song in the United States. A third version, by the British band Matthews Southern Comfort, became the best-known version in the United Kingdom and was the highest charting version of the song in the UK, reaching the top of the Singles Chart in 1970. A fourth version by studio project the Assembled Multitude also became a chart hit.
The song’s lyrics refer to the four-day Woodstock Music and Arts Festival held in August 1969, and tell the story of a concert-goer on a trek to Max Yasgur’s farm in New York State to join in the “song and celebration”. Mitchell, who was unable to perform at the festival herself, was inspired to write the song after she heard an account of it from her then-boyfriend Graham Nash, who had performed at the festival. Mitchell’s anthemic song and the festival it commemorated became symbolic of the counterculture of the 1960s.
Joni Mitchell’s lyrics were based on the description of the Woodstock Music and Art Festival she was given by her then-boyfriend, Graham Nash. She had not been able to go to the festival herself because a manager had told her that it would be more advantageous for her to appear on The Dick Cavett Show. She composed the song in a hotel room in New York City as she watched televised reports of the festival. “The deprivation of not being able to go provided me with an intense angle on Woodstock”, she told an interviewer afterwards. David Crosby, interviewed for the documentary Joni Mitchell: Woman of Heart and Mind, said Mitchell had captured in her song the feeling and importance of the Woodstock festival better than anyone who had actually been there.
The lyrics tell the story of a spiritual journey to Max Yasgur’s farm, where the festival was held, and make use of sacred imagery, comparing the festival site with the Garden of Eden (“and we’ve got to get ourselves back to the garden”). The saga commences with the narrator’s encounter of a fellow traveler (“Well, I came upon a child of God, he was walking along the road”) and concludes with their arrival at their destination (“by the time we got to Woodstock, we were half a million strong”). There is also reference to the “mutual assured destruction” ideology of the Cold War (“bombers riding shotgun in the sky…”), contrasted with the peaceful intent of the festival goers (“…turning into butterflies above our nation”).
Mitchell performed “Woodstock” seated at a piano at the 1969 Big Sur Folk Festival, one month after Woodstock, prior to its release on any album. Her solo performance can be seen in the festival concert film Celebration at Big Sur, released in 1971.
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