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"Both Sides" - Joni Mitchell I heard a snippet of this song forever ago and loved it instantly. It played on an episode of the Wonder Years and has carefully tucked itself away in my heart. I wanted to find it again, but I didn't know where to begin and yet every time I've blogged, the memory of it never inched its way forward to remind me. It came to me yesterday morning while in passing. It was playing softly in the background of too much sound and I asked around to get its name. Someone told me "California," but sadly they were wrong. I couldn't sleep last night so I took my phone through my quiet home and sat patiently on the sofa until the sun came up. The whole room appears cold at first, sending off a fluorescent glow that bounces off from the mirrored wall's reflection against the beige paint that surrounds it. In minutes, the beam of the sunlight hits through the blinds and onto the wooden floor. Its reddish tone pierces through the subtle ...