Sometimes I wonder about what the odds are for so many of us Ole Hippies to find each other out here

[madokie]

in the cyber-world, after all there seems to be many of us here. Is it just destiny or what? :shrug: ;-):hippie:


I can think of no other word except for cyber-world

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

1. Thankfully...

The young bucks who started this place are patient souls and can put up with us. ;-)

[Sal Minella]

2. Speak up a little, would you?

[madokie]

5. I would but I lost my voice

I seem to only find it when bushitler* hit the teevee screen then its all hell breaks loose. :rofl:

[Joe Fields]

71. Now if we can only change their taste in music. lol

[Ress1]

3. Most of the 'old hippies' I used to know

are now right wing Republicans.

[Le Taz Hot]

95. I call Bullshit!

They were Young Republicans back then, they're only TELLING you they were hippies. Learn to tell truth from fiction, grasshopper. B-)

[lonestarnot]

4. LOL Madokie!

:smoke: :hippie: :evilgrin: :toast: :bounce: :hug:

[madokie]

10. years ago I used to wonder where I would be and what I would be thinking when I was looking 60

in the eyes, well here I am and I'm a thinking I love where I am, in all my hippieness and all. I guess we were just born to protest, huh. :hug:

[lonestarnot]

13. Only when there is reason my dear. I would rather be doing other things.

[madokie]

19. You and I alike

but our love for our Country demands we do it this time, same as the last. I guess the difference between us and them is we wanted to live life to the fullest and let everyone else do the same, where as they only want what they themselves can get and the hell with the rest. I take great pride in who I am, a man of convictions, I might not have much but I do have love, the greatest thing of all. ;-)

[lonestarnot]

90. Amen brother Madokie!

:loveya:

[gauguin57]

6. Whoa ... the patchouli stink is gettin' INTENSE in here!

Everyone who burned a hole in their carpet with ... um ... INCENSE ... during the '70s ... raise your hand!

:thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

[madokie]

11. buy a brand new shirt, first night burn a hole in it, damn

yep, I kept one for posterity

[Arkansas Granny]

18. But, I'm not sure what flavor the incense was. Could have been

patchouli, could have been sandalwood. Just can't remember.

:thumbsup:

[madokie]

24. I go light sandalwood now ;-)

:hippie:

[Arkansas Granny]

30. My daughter got me some for Mother's Day last year that was

sandalwood with a little bit of a citrus background. I've been real stingy with it and just burn it occasionally. I've used patchouli essential oil in a melt and pour soap base and it's a real favorite for people in my age group, although most younger people don't seem to care for the scent.

[madokie]

34. now you're after my heart ;-)

[Blue_In_AK]

60. Oooohhh, I love patchouli

AND sandalwood.

[gauguin57]

35. The carpet-hole-burner was, for me, Hawaiian Lotus.

Talk about STINK!

I was burning it on the back of a metal button (probably said "Dump Nixon" or "HHH" or "McGovern/Shriver") -- tried to pick up the button (to spit on the incense so it would go out) when Mom said, "What's that I smell up there?" -- button hot, fingers burnt, button fell, carpet burned.

[madokie]

38. I just seen it in my minds eye

:hippie:

[Betsy Ross]

40. Use a pipe! n/t

[Seedersandleechers]

62. And I'm still burning holes with those things

Last week I burned a 4" line on my desk from those things.

[Arkansas Granny]

63. Just for the record, patchouli doesn't stink.

;)

[Joe Fields]

72. Hand raised. And I love patchouli...

[Joe Fields]

73. But my favorite brand is Maharani

[CrazyOrangeCat]

7. Is everybody on the bus?

:smoke: :smoke: :smoke: :smoke: :smoke: :smoke: :smoke:

[Arkansas Granny]

65. Is this the bus you are referring to?

[CrazyOrangeCat]

68. The very same, ma'am.

:D

[Arkansas Granny]

70. Here's a picture of the bus as it sits today.

I saw something about this on TV just recently. Apparently, the Smithsonian contacted Ken Kesey about restoring the bus and displaying it, but he turned them down. This was from an interview that was done with him shortly before his death in 2001.

[CrazyOrangeCat]

77. Wow.

I didn't know it was such a wreck. :(

Actually, I remember reading that Kesey did send a bus to the Smithsonian. The ornery prankster sent them a different bus. The curators there actually caught it!

[Arkansas Granny]

78. Once a Prankster, always a Prankster, I suppose.

[Oilwellian]

8. Flower child checking in

We should have an old hippies/flower child convention. I doubt bingo would be on the agenda. :D :hi:

[demnan]

9. I see us out in the street protesting

In front of the White House last night, it was just a bunch of old wimps, none of us knew any songs written after 1963.


What I want to know is where are all the young people?

[seemslikeadream]

12. Old Friends

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WB0nt22Sgi8



Old friends,
Old friends
Sat on their park bench
Like bookends.
A newspaper blown though the grass
Falls on the round toes
Of the high shoes
Of the old friends.

Old friends,
Winter companions,
The old men
Lost in their overcoats,
Waiting for the sunset.
The sounds of the city,
Sifting through trees,
Settle like dust
On the shoulders
Of the old friends.

Can you imagine us
Years from today,
Sharing a park bench quietly?
How terribly strange
To be seventy.
Old friends,
Memory brushes the same years
Silently sharing the same fears

[madokie]

14. Thanks

I never meet a hippie I didn't like, bet theres not many cowboys that can say that. ;-)

[lazer47]

37. Now why did you have to go and bring that up,,

The Cowboys haven't had a winning team in years,,,,

[madokie]

42. and my wife is pissed about it to

big football fan, high school cheerleader who loves her some 'boys. I rib her that there's not a football team who I like to see win as much as I like to see the 'boys lose, gets her fired up too bigtime.:-) I'm a Cowboy fan myself though.

[lazer47]

46. For Christ sake don't let her know it, we will have to live with it

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

15. Cyberworld. It seems that this is another dimension onto its own.

I've often thought that the "internet" was created so that like spirits could find other members of their soul group. I do biz online and it is amazing how many of my customers, sight unseen, randomly?, turn out to be in a swing of 10 years younger to older than myself. Many feel like old friends immediately. :)

As to Ole Hippie! I was more of a Flower Child! I hung out with Hippies, later became a Yuppie (not deliberately) and came back to my roots about 12 years ago. ;)

:hi:

[madokie]

21. come a full circle, what a feeling that must be ;-)

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

27. It feels good madokie. I'm so much more in balance coming back to my authentic self.

It's hard sometimes though. It was much more painless when I was comfortably numb.

Thank you. :)

[no_hypocrisy]

16. Peace, man!

:hippie:

:hi:

:headbang:

[madokie]

20. Peace

:hippie:

[ginnyinWI]

17. I wanted to go to Woodstock.

But I was only 17 and didn't have a ride. :(

[no_hypocrisy]

22. You kidding? I heard there are people still stuck on 17M, waiting to

get within 3 miles of Yasgar's Farm as I write.

[madokie]

23. I was bogged down in a quagmire myself

[lazer47]

39. I was too, it was a rice paddy just outside of Chu Chi

[madokie]

43. If a few of these SOB's who have us in this mess weren't too much of a chickenshit

to have some experience we wouldn't be here in this mess like we are now.

I use the sob phrase literally too in this case.

[lazer47]

48. Look,, the way some of these Repugs think, I am almost glad

they weren't there with us, it kept me and you out of prison for shooting the wrong (right) people.

[madokie]

49. so true,

I guess thats one of the reasons they don't let us oldie but goodies near a battlefield again
:hippie:

[TahitiNut]

51. Tell me about it. 69 .... a year whose number had so much promise (sigh)

Oh well ... we got to see some awesome sunsets. :shrug:

[madokie]

53. yes, that we did

I still see them in my dreams sometimes, I guess I always will. Also I guess thats why WE feel so strongly about this Iraqi slaughter of today.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

25. I was there.

Stinky mud and garbage. Last outdoor concert in an alfalfa field I ever went to.

[ginnyinWI]

29. I guess it looked better from a distance, n/t

[Raven]

26. Groovy!

Light my fiya.

[madokie]

28. just lit 'er up

oh that fi'ar ;-)

[Raven]

31. "Fiya"....with a Boston accent! n/t

[madokie]

33. I should have recognized that

one of my bestest of friends, back when friends sometimes meant survival, was from Boston, sgt herb he went by ;-). How I would love to see the Man today

[sinkingfeeling]

32. Yes, we're still around. Still carrying protest signs. Still dancin' to the music.

[OutNow]

36. Funny you should mention old hippies - Eugene

In three weeks we are moving to Eugene Oregon to retire. My wife went to school there and our 10 month old grandson is there. We've made a few trips there in the past year. I've concluded that Eugene is where the old hippies go. I'll fit right in.

BTW - We're moving from Williamson County Texas - not a place for old hippies, but I will miss our progressive friends in Austin. Molly and Ann are gone, but Jim Hightower is still kicking butt and I am thankful that Lloyd Doggett is still in Congress despite Tom Delay's best efforts to gerrymande him out of a seat.

See you at Saturday Market.

[stubtoe]

41. Make sure you go to the Oregon Country Fair then.

The annual meeting of the hippie tribes. I'll be the one wearing tie-dye :)

http://www.oregoncountryfair.org/

See you there!

[CabalPowered]

58. I love the OCF!

The after hours parties are the most prized invitation in all of Western Oregon. I still haven't managed to get in but someday...

[omega minimo]

44. How was your nap?

[madokie]

45. filled with both pleasant dreams and nightmares

dreams of what could be and nightmares of what is :hippie:

[omega minimo]

50. Dreaming away while the nightmare trap was set

"What is" happened while you were sleeping............................... it took a while.........................................

[madokie]

52. I'm aware of that fore shore

been fighten'ing it the whole time knowing full well where we were headed and ultimately would be.

[Clark2008]

47. Some of us are new hippies

...but we were raised by the "old" hippies and that's why we are the way we are.

:hi:

[madokie]

55. I have two sons there with you too

and I'm sure they would have the same to say as you. ;-)

[leftofthedial]

54. it's all a collective flashback

[saged52]

56. Happy old hippie gal checking in -

this is quite literally one of the nicest threads I have read in a long time. I just got back from the dentist; she asked what that lovely scent was. I answered that is was my patchouli essential oil, of course!

[donsu]

57. cyber world IS better then sliced bread - its nice not to have to explain

what I'm saying/meaning. here at DU the hip know what I'm saying. From the moment I first clicked onto DU I felt at home.

I get my incense from Nippon Kodo.

[Blue_In_AK]

59. What I wonder sometimes

is if some of us didn't know each other back in the day. I did a lot of traveling around back then. Surely I must have known some of you. :hippie:

[in_cog_ni_to]

61. *sigh* Those days were some of the happiest days of my life. Peace, Love and Rock and Roll!

Bell bottoms, macramé, peace signs, bongs, strawberry papers, Boones Farm Strawberry Hill, shrooms, bongs, blacklights, posters and MUNCHIES. Everyone liked everyone else. Everyone was invited to everyone else's parties...sort of an ongoing, endless, moving open house. Huge parties out in the country just hangin' out and smokin' and eatin' and dancin' and smokin' and eatin'...:smoke:. Huge groups of friends would go camping for a weekend and have a 3 day party. I feel SO lucky to have been a part of that whole experience. To this day, I wear my tie dye Peace t-shirts, but changed my earth shoes for Birkenstocks (most comfortable shoes EVER) One day I had on one of my tie dye shirts and had a delivery man come to my door. He had a long gray ponytail ;) and he said, "I really like your shirt! are you an old hippie?" I said..yep, I sure enough am and he just smiled and said, "Yeah, me too! Those days were GREAT!" He was someone I could have spent days with just talking about 'those days.' It's almost like a "bonding" experience we all had....even if we don't know each other personally...we KNOW each other because of those times.

I now find my son (14) completely fascinated by the Hippie culture.;) He has black lights and posters in his room. He's a vegetarian, won't wear leather, is involved in politics, loves mother earth, has empathy for other people and wants to join the Peace Corp after high school. He thinks he wants to get a college degree in Political Science and be a politician or he may work with a Humanitarian Organization, he isn't quite sure yet..:)

I was telling Zidzi last week that I bought my son a PEACE Sign necklace from "Peace Please" that is made from the fence that was around the Max Yasgur's 600 acre dairy farm in Bethel, New York... where Woodstock happened! Is that cool or what?:hippie: He LOVES that necklace and wears it all the time. It's a great conversation piece.

Those really WERE...THE DAYS! :hippie: I wouldn't trade them for anything. Peace!:hippie:




http://www.peaceplease.com/peacefence_necklace_keychain.html

[madokie]

67. and it blew so many of the old bastages away that we could come together

by the tens, the hundreds, the thousands, the hundred thousands with hardly any if any violence or problems except what they themselves brought to us. Yes, I am real proud of the fact I was/am still a part of it all and also the fact we found something that we had never lost in the first place, something I'm not so sure I could have appreciated had I been told that very thing many years ago
to us Hippies, who always knew that there was and or is no reason to have to have violence in our lives ever.:hi:

[BeFree]

100. Yep

And that anti-violence stance made the pukes, well, puke.

They just couldn't understand why we didn't hate. Their whole realm is: War is the Answer, and they never figured out how us 'kooks' could believe Peace is the Answer.

[Joe Fields]

74. I can't help but think about it all just about every day. I think that

these times are so bad, I find myself living in the past more than I'd like. But when I do, I can't help but smile...

[annabanana]

79. Whatever town you hit...

there was a place to stay, some food to eat...Family everywhere..

[in_cog_ni_to]

87. Absolutely. I think about all the nice people/strangers I met and not once

did I feel threatened or afraid of any of them. I use to get into cars with people I didn't know from Adam and I'm still here to tell about it. People were GOOD. TRULY good and kind. Just share a joint and you're friends for life!:7:hippie:

I weep for the world my son has been given now. His life is and will be SO different from the one I had. It's so sad. What a loss.:(

[BlackVelvet04]

85. How and when did the world change so much

from what we had? It's really sad how different life has become. I miss the old days.

[in_cog_ni_to]

88. I know. It breaks my heart. The life I had growing up is NOTHING LIKE the life my son

will have to live in the future. It's SO sad that they won't be afforded the same world we had the pleasure of growing up in.:(

[bdamomma]

97. our kids deserve so much more, we got to get our country back for them.

[madokie]

101. That is it without a doubt so true

our world wasn't perfect back then but we always tried to make it better. When we laid down our swords, so to say, was when the neoCON's started to flourish which has led to where we are today. We have allowed this travesty to happen and its us who has to stop it, as the old saying goes, no one can wagg your tail for you you have to do it yourself, I'm wagging

[proud2BlibKansan]

64. Ah how sweet!

Destiny brought us together.

I knew an old hippie couple who named their daughter Destiny. :hi:

[madokie]

66. I bet many of us do too

I do. :hippie:
Through the years I have found the, or us, whichever it is, ole hippies to be some very pleasant people to be around, thats pretty much so anyway.;-)
:grouphug:

[warren pease]

69. I assume the rest are slinging hatred over at FR...

You remember, the ones who worked on their cars every weekend and still couldn't get a date because it WASN'T THE CAR, STOOPID. They're still resentful and, instead of looking in the mirror, their wingnut radio gods assure them it's all because of the libruls.

Yup, despite for-profit medicine's best efforts to kill us, many of us proved resistant and even seem to have a good percentage of our brain cells intact. One thing that's different for me, though. Back in the day, my political ideological basis was pretty uninformed. It really was "Revolution for the Hell of It," as Abie Hoffman wrote. I hadn't yet read Chomsky, Zinn, Parente, DuBois and others who have since turned me from a mindless brick thrower into an informed brick thrower.

But the other thing that's changed for me in the past year is the addition of my wonderful first granddaughter, who is of course the cutest, brightest, cleverest, most humorous child ever to grace the planet (not to denigrate anyone else's granddaughter with those same traits). She's forced me to think beyond the two or three decades I have left (if I'm fortunate) and made me see the future through her eyes.

I'm horrified by the prospects of a world made nearly uninhabitable by eco-disaster, with another eight or nine billion people competing for ever-scarcer goods and resources, water and air becoming unfit to drink or breathe, constant war over what's left of the oil, happy days for epidemic-class viruses, new mutations of invasive bacteria with fewer effective antibiotics to combat them, desertification in the former farm belts, sea level rises drowning some of the most densely populated areas in the world, rivers drying up, chronic famine, life reduced to a perpetual search for food and building shelter from the omnivores, total breaking of social order and the norms that support it... the litany is pretty awful, and there's no good reason to think that kind of horrific future will be averted by a world still dedicated to self-poisoning through fossil fuel addiction, or even mass suicide while Bushie holds the launch codes.

So my granddaughter has made my commitment even stronger to being instrumental in ending BushCo, all it stands for, and all its slimy tentacles that slither through every single institutional, doctrinal and political entity in the country. I figured I could just lay low and if things really got hot, the Canadian border's only about 350 miles away. But with baby Katie in the mix, new motivation springs eternal. So I've stepped up my personal campaign of subversion -- which I obviously won't discuss here -- and am also working within the system in an effort to nominate and elect a candidate I can be proud of -- and, as a hint, it's not HRC.

So the struggle goes on, but it's become more urgent because of the kid. I will spend my remaining years working to be a significant part of a change that moves America incrementally from its current state religion of unrestrained, unregulated capitalism, where the object is to turn us all into dedicated sociopaths fighting each other over every nickel and dime, because life in America is a zero sum game and I can only win if you lose.

That's simply unacceptable, unless you think sociopathic behavior is the ideal and that 300,000,000 people at each other's throats constitutes a viable society.

Rather, my granddaughter has pushed me further toward activism and further away from passivity. I'll spend my remaining decades (or days, if that's how it works out) working toward the beginnings of an alternative system that pays more than a little lip service to humanitarian values, provides a working alternative to capitalism, doesn't reward people for shuffling bonds and skimming the profits, and replaces competition with collectivism. This would seem ludicrous if some version of this weren't already being successfully practiced around the world, in primitive societies as well as modern states.

So if little Katie's what it takes to get me off my theorizing ass and actually working for the things I believe have the best chance of avoiding planetary ecocide, then I've got the best excuse for sustained, committed activism of all time.


wp

[AnnInLa]

75. Old-Hippie Convention Anyone?

Can't you just picture it? No one under age ? allowed, no hair spray allowed, no modern anything allowed. (Well, except eye-glasses, dentures, blood pressure medicine and corn plasters.) What would be the agenda? What would be the entertainment? What would be the bedtime? Love it.

Where do old hippies go to die?

[conscious evolution]

89. East Coast Hippy conventions

Here are a the ones I go to.
http://www.grassrootsfest.org/
http://www.magmusic.com/suwannee.htm
http://www.magmusic.com/magnolia.htm

[Bluerthanblue]

76. what a wild strange trip it's been

this life has been quite the journey, who'd ever have thought we'd find ourselves here-?

"If I'd ever been here before I would probably know just what to do...... wouldn't you?"...

lines from long ago flash into my thoughts, with a wierd kind of 'sense'.
:grouphug:
peace,
blu

[spanone]

80. Just lucky. Rollllllllll another one.....

just like the other one.

[mitchtv]

81. Hi Brothers and sisters

I arrived in SF June 13 , 1967. in a driveaway from Greenwich Village. (A VW wagon)want straight to the panhandle. I still see a lot of the old Hippies at Demos in Palm Springs.

[Cha]

82. It's

Kismet! NO matter what else is going on in our lives now..we still have that good ol' Hippie Ethic..

"MAKE LOVE NOT WAR" :hippie:

[BlackVelvet04]

83. I think part of the reason why we have found each other

in cyber-world is because we still have the spirit to fight but not always the physical energy to do it the way we did in the old days.....we tend to find the other fighters because it is part of who we are.

[WinkyDink]

84. Still idealistic after all these years! :) Still a rabid Leftie! ;)

[Manifestor_of_Light]

86. We'll have to go back to the communal values.

I was born right in the middle of the baby boomers in the mid 1950s.

I truly believe that with the price of gas skyrocketing, and therefore the price of housing, food and everything else, no safety net, no retirement, we're gonna have to have artists' colonies and some form of communal living. And do all those hands on life skill things that A&M Extension Agents teach, and they write about in the Mother Earth News.

My dad made me learn how to change the oil in a '57 Chevy and jump a car battery; my Mom taught me how to sew and cook. So many people today (I'm thinking of yuppies) seem to have absolutely NO manual skills and have to hire somebody to do everything except possibly wipe their arses. I've heard women say they don't wanna learn how to jump a car battery and I say, "Oh so you wanna stay broken down by the side of the road, huh?".

I'm sick of jobs (can't get one anyway, too old, too well educated) and am going to move to the country to a very old house I inherited. It's in a little town full of rednecks who are into country music and gospel singin' and I think they need a bit of difference in their midst.

And I think we're gonna have a little artists' colony where folks can stay for a while and do their music, draw their art, write their poetry or whatever, and listen to the mockingbirds singing and watch them chasin' each other in the yard.

Drum circles, fire spinning, assorted creative weirdness.

Who wants to join me?

[Manifestor_of_Light]

91. kick

[Le Taz Hot]

98. Sounds like heaven!

My husband and I have been talking about doing the same thing -- going in with a few friends and buying some land, building a BIG solar energy house, (NOT a McMansion, big to accommodate people living/staying there), growing and canning our own food, etc.

Like you, I'm completely out of the job market (also too old -- at 52 -- go figure -- and too educated) so I'm going back to my artistic roots -- making/selling jewelry, playing my guitar, keyboard and autoharp semi-regularly and after quitting smoking, getting my voice back. I'm actually thinking about performing again. After selling my soul to the corporate gods for 30 years this is like a whole new life.

Anyway, I couldn't agree with you more. We had the right idea in the 60's -- communal living. It's the only way we're going to survive.

[Monkeyman]

92. Hey who are you calling old Right on Man

:hippie: :beer: :smoke: :evilgrin:

[uppityperson]

93. Indeed. I remember the 1st time came across a pc.

I thought it was ok for business, but why would I ever need or want one. I am very glad that the Internets were invented and to find you all here too.

[mdmc]

94. not sure...

:kick:

[butterfly77]

96. Wasn't Carter the president during that time?

[Iris]

99. I don't know, but this Tween/GenXer is sure glad you're here!

I'm 39 - not really GenX or Baby Boomer, but I had the privilege of being educated by the hippies who came out of college wanting to change the world. When things seem impossible in our current state of affairs, I often think back fondly to my days in elementary school where my teachers played "Free to Be You and Me" by Marlo Thomas and friends in music class, exposed us to multi-culturalism before mc was "cool" in language arts and social studies, and led us through ecology "work stations" for science class.

If it weren't for the hippies, I wouldn't be here today!