by Jonathan Reisman

“Don’t it always seem to go,

That you don’t know what you’ve got ‘til it’s gone?”

-- Joni Mitchell (Big Yellow Taxi)

Freedom Studies is going on hiatus while I ponder Joni Mitchell’s lyrics on my 69th birthday,

Including:

“I’ve looked at life from both sides now,

From up and down, and still somehow

It’s life’s illusions, I recall

I really don’t know life at all.”

-- Joni Mitchell (Both Sides Now)

I hope to return soon.