Both Side Of Life

I’ve been playing this song a lot lately. I don’t know if my mom liked it cause I never got to ask her. But, I feel like if I asked her today, she would say, “yes sweetie. I like this version of this song. I like this version because I think Joni understands this song from “Both Sides, Now” - now that she has lived a full life. Now that she’s had time to really see both sides of the clouds, both sides of love and both sides of life. It’s almost as if she wrote this song back in 1969 for her future self.” This is the conversation that I imagine my mom and I would have in the car while I was driving and she were at home. Then we would hang up and we would both listen to the song again and the line where she says, “somethin’s lost, but somethin’s gained In livin’ every day” is the line that would resonate most with us. This conversation that I’ve imagined doesn’t feel like an illusion, maybe this is the way we converse now because I know my mom never left me, I know our souls are blended and we really don’t know how this works now that she's gone away.