Tag: Who is Joni Mitchell?

  • Joni Mitchell’s Both Sides Now

    Joni Mitchell’s Both Sides Now

    First a note about the painting, Botticelli’s Birth of Venus, that serves here as a symbol for Joni Mitchell’s song. Both speak of life, love and beauty. For Plato – and so for the members of the Florentine Platonic Academy – Venus had two aspects: she was an earthly goddess who aroused humans to physical…