Letters from Quotidia Weekend Supplement 12

People of my generation remember Joni Mitchell’s Both Sides Now, I’ve looked at clouds from both sides now, where she uses clouds as a metaphor for change and life’s bittersweet nature. The Rolling Stones’ Get Off Of My Cloud, I wore done as a 45-rpm single where the line, Hey you get off of my cloud/ Don’t hang around cause two’s a crowd emphasised the 60s elevation of personal freedom as a guiding principle of life. More