All of a sudden there it was in my Instagram feed, this clip from 1969 of Joni Mitchell and Johnny Cash harmonizing on “I Still Miss Someone” in front of a live television audience. The video quality is a bit hazy, the audio has an almost mono feel to it, and the background orchestration carries that Lawerence Welk lilt. Gosh I loved it. I wondered if my father watched that when it first aired on ABC? Dad had lots of favorites when it came to music, I mean lots. But he loved Johnny Cash.
It's freeing how honestly you take 'need' into account. I always say that we need to be loved - everyone does. And Donald Miller says somewhere that he needs heaven to be real despite people makign fun of him for believing that. He just needs that. Period.
So true. Even with how needy my grandfather was in the last year of his life, we needed him still. Everything has been harder with him gone. Nothing got easier.
Thank you for naming this. And for including the birds-in-a-tree imagery just to cinch it.
It's freeing how honestly you take 'need' into account. I always say that we need to be loved - everyone does. And Donald Miller says somewhere that he needs heaven to be real despite people makign fun of him for believing that. He just needs that. Period.
Beautiful, John. Thinking of those I love and need.
So true. Even with how needy my grandfather was in the last year of his life, we needed him still. Everything has been harder with him gone. Nothing got easier.