I was thinking as small children think, as if my thoughts or wishes had the power to reverse the narrative, - Joan Didion

Above all, she is the girl who 'feels' things, who has hung on to the freshness and pain of adolescence, the girl ever wounded, ever young. Now, at an age when the wounds begin to heal whether one wants them to or not, Joan Baez rarely leaves the Carmel Valley.

Madness, it became convenient to believe quite early on, came with the territory, on the order of earthquakes.

There was a level on which I believed that what had happened remained reversible