Dear Jarkko,
It is so very kind of our friends to remember my birthday.
Please thank them for their warm good wishes and their encouragement.
I cannot put into words how much it means to me.
Love and Blessings,
Leo
Greeting from Leonard
Greeting from Leonard
I posted this in the Birthday thread, but let's copy it here, too:
1988, 1993: Helsinki||2008: Manchester|Oslo|London O2|Berlin|Helsinki|London RAH|| 2009: New York Beacon|Berlin|Venice|Barcelona|Las Vegas|San José||2010: Salzburg|Helsinki|Gent|Bratislava|Las Vegas|| 2012: Gent|Helsinki|Verona|| 2013: New York|Pula|Oslo|||
Re: Greeting from Leonard
Ah, how sweet! I'm glad that we can warm Leonard's heart as much as he warms ours.
Re: Greeting from Leonard
Sweet! Thank you Jarkko for posting this greeting to us
and Thank you so much Leonard....
All the best to both of you.
Mutti/Leslie
and Thank you so much Leonard....
All the best to both of you.
Mutti/Leslie
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1988 Vancouver
2009 Victoria/Seattle/Almost Red Rocks/Las Vegas/San Jose.
2010 Sligo x 2/Victoria/Vancouver/Portland/Las Vegas x 2.
2012 Austin x 2/Seattle/Vancouver/Montreal x 2.
2013 Oakland x 2/New York City x 2/Winnipeg...
2009 Victoria/Seattle/Almost Red Rocks/Las Vegas/San Jose.
2010 Sligo x 2/Victoria/Vancouver/Portland/Las Vegas x 2.
2012 Austin x 2/Seattle/Vancouver/Montreal x 2.
2013 Oakland x 2/New York City x 2/Winnipeg...
Re: Greeting from Leonard
Special! Thank you Leonard and thank you Jarkko for passing it on...
You let me sing, you lifted me up, you gave my soul a beam to travel on. You folded your distance back into my heart.
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Re: Greeting from Leonard
Leonard's words are not significently differnt than those written by others, so simple, but, in a subtle way, they are so very touching to me at the same time.... I guess I am reading his persona into these comments !!! Unexpected nourishment!
Leonard from Montreal
Leonard from Montreal
We're all on one road....we're only passing through....
1967 Montreal / 2008 Toronto/ 2009 New York Beacon /Boston 2x /New York MSG / Chelsea Hotel Plaque Celebration /San Jose / 2010 Las Vegas 2x / 2012 Montreal 2x /Boston 2x
1967 Montreal / 2008 Toronto/ 2009 New York Beacon /Boston 2x /New York MSG / Chelsea Hotel Plaque Celebration /San Jose / 2010 Las Vegas 2x / 2012 Montreal 2x /Boston 2x
Re: Greeting from Leonard
Yes, you can Leonard and have done this in so many, many ways. The feeling is very mutualjarkko wrote:Leonard wrote: I cannot put into words how much it means to me.
Bev
It doesn't have to be perfect, it just has to B4real ~ me
Attitude is a self-fulfilling prophecy ~ me ...... The magic of art is the truth of its lies ~ me ...... Only left-handers are in their right mind!
Attitude is a self-fulfilling prophecy ~ me ...... The magic of art is the truth of its lies ~ me ...... Only left-handers are in their right mind!
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B4real wrote:Yes, you can Leonard and have done this in so many, many ways. The feeling is very mutualjarkko wrote:Leonard wrote: I cannot put into words how much it means to me.
Bev
yes,
it' s some kind of relief that even a master of words feels the touch of speechlessness once in a while!
thank you mr.cohen and jarkko!
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Such a beautiful message! I'm the one who is lost for words now...
"We are so lightly here"
Re: Greeting from Leonard
So sweet.
Thank you Jarkko for posting this message for us.
Thank you so much Leonard.
Marina
Thank you Jarkko for posting this message for us.
Thank you so much Leonard.
Marina
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Thank you very much Leonard for your moving message. I am wordless.....this is just the human greatness. With infinite love: Szilvia
2009 Budapest
2010 Zagreb, Gothenburg, Florence, St. Margarethen, Bratislava, Las Vegas x2
2011, 2015 Ύδρα
2012 Ghent x5, Helsinki, Dublin x2, Verona
2013 Roma, Lucca, Vienna, London
2015 Viladrau
2010 Zagreb, Gothenburg, Florence, St. Margarethen, Bratislava, Las Vegas x2
2011, 2015 Ύδρα
2012 Ghent x5, Helsinki, Dublin x2, Verona
2013 Roma, Lucca, Vienna, London
2015 Viladrau
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Just back from Strasbourg and Marseille I read Mr. Cohen's message and I am in tears. Thank you very much for this message, Leonard Cohen, and for passing it on to us, Jarkko.
Christel
Christel
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I also had tears in my eyes when I read this.
We all know, how deliberate LC is when choosing his words. So every word in his thank you note struck me like a thunderbolt.
I was moved by his paying tribute to our wonderful Jarkko with his inclusiveness, when he wrote to Jarkko and wrote, "our" friends. How so very gracious of him to recognize Jarkko like that and include him as an equal which looks so casual but is in fact a deliberate "our" friends.
Also, to end his thank you note with a personal "stamp", LC could have chosen from among several images he has designed and with which we are all familiar. What he deliberately chose was the image best symbolizing the Blessings of the Kohanim, the four Blessings he used to invoke in his own way at the end of concerts early in the 2009-2009 tour.
LC blessed all of us. And I was moved to tears by this.
---Arlene
We all know, how deliberate LC is when choosing his words. So every word in his thank you note struck me like a thunderbolt.
I was moved by his paying tribute to our wonderful Jarkko with his inclusiveness, when he wrote to Jarkko and wrote, "our" friends. How so very gracious of him to recognize Jarkko like that and include him as an equal which looks so casual but is in fact a deliberate "our" friends.
Also, to end his thank you note with a personal "stamp", LC could have chosen from among several images he has designed and with which we are all familiar. What he deliberately chose was the image best symbolizing the Blessings of the Kohanim, the four Blessings he used to invoke in his own way at the end of concerts early in the 2009-2009 tour.
LC blessed all of us. And I was moved to tears by this.
---Arlene
2009-San Diego|Los Ang|Nashville|St Louis|Kansas City|LVegas|San Jose
2010-Gothenburg|Berlin|Ghentx2|Oaklandx2|Portland|LVegasx2
2012-Austinx2|Denver|Los Ang|Seattle|Portland
Arlene's Leonard Cohen Scrapbook http://onboogiestreet.blogspot.com
2010-Gothenburg|Berlin|Ghentx2|Oaklandx2|Portland|LVegasx2
2012-Austinx2|Denver|Los Ang|Seattle|Portland
Arlene's Leonard Cohen Scrapbook http://onboogiestreet.blogspot.com
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How very thoughtful and beautiful from Leonard. Especially, to read it after that emotional Marseille concert...
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Forever gracious.
Forever a gentle/man.
Forever true.
Yes ~ "our" speaks volumes.
Thank you, Leonard and Jarkko, for all that you are... and for each of you being the quintessential you.
Love,
Lizzy
Forever a gentle/man.
Forever true.
Yes ~ "our" speaks volumes.
Thank you, Leonard and Jarkko, for all that you are... and for each of you being the quintessential you.
Love,
Lizzy
"Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken."
~ Oscar Wilde
~ Oscar Wilde