Sasha Weiss

I love you right out loud It was an incredible thing to witness. I mean, there's a beautiful line in that song. Something's lost and something's gained. And the way she phrased it in the performance I saw, she really elongated the word gained.

I love you right out loud It was an incredible thing to witness. I mean, there's a beautiful line in that song. Something's lost and something's gained. And the way she phrased it in the performance I saw, she really elongated the word gained.

But something's gained In my living every day

But something's gained In my living every day

I felt like she was taking in the riches of experience right there on the stage in front of all of us. And it was incredibly transcendently moving.

I felt like she was taking in the riches of experience right there on the stage in front of all of us. And it was incredibly transcendently moving.

Yes.

Yes.

No, I'm just, like, re-inhabiting it. Yeah, I mean, it just felt like the profundity of life right there in the Hollywood Bowl, you know?

No, I'm just, like, re-inhabiting it. Yeah, I mean, it just felt like the profundity of life right there in the Hollywood Bowl, you know?

I can't believe we're lucky enough to experience living on Earth with Joni Mitchell. Who is still able to interpret her own music 60 years later. Yeah. In a time of doubt and turbulence in the world. That got absorbed into that night, too. The personal and the kind of national and political meaning in all of that, in that song.

I can't believe we're lucky enough to experience living on Earth with Joni Mitchell. Who is still able to interpret her own music 60 years later. Yeah. In a time of doubt and turbulence in the world. That got absorbed into that night, too. The personal and the kind of national and political meaning in all of that, in that song.

Like, I just feel like she's a distiller and processor of our collective experience in a way that... kind of like none other and it's all there in the timbre of the voice it's all there i just couldn't believe my good fortune we'll be right back Can we talk about the laughter? She laughed through that whole show. She laughed after every applause.

Like, I just feel like she's a distiller and processor of our collective experience in a way that... kind of like none other and it's all there in the timbre of the voice it's all there i just couldn't believe my good fortune we'll be right back Can we talk about the laughter? She laughed through that whole show. She laughed after every applause.

She has a great laugh, and she laughs sometimes on her recorded songs. She has this kind of musical, slightly antic laugh. To me, it evokes—this is very Jewish—it evokes the biblical laughter of Sarah. Whoa. Who, when she was told in her 90s that she was going to be a mother— Isaac laughs. And Isaac is the name for laughter in Hebrew.

She has a great laugh, and she laughs sometimes on her recorded songs. She has this kind of musical, slightly antic laugh. To me, it evokes—this is very Jewish—it evokes the biblical laughter of Sarah. Whoa. Who, when she was told in her 90s that she was going to be a mother— Isaac laughs. And Isaac is the name for laughter in Hebrew.

And it's this deep story of renaissance, of creation, of surprise, of fertility in old age. And I felt like the laughter was an ancient laughter of generativeness that came from someplace really deep. I heard that in the laughter. I think that's it.

And it's this deep story of renaissance, of creation, of surprise, of fertility in old age. And I felt like the laughter was an ancient laughter of generativeness that came from someplace really deep. I heard that in the laughter. I think that's it.

Me too. Thank you, Wesley.

Me too. Thank you, Wesley.