Were you a hippie?

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<p>I didn’t want to take the debt thread off track with my pathetic tale of economic/educational/social disadvantage, but working on my post- gave me the idea for another tangent.</p>

<p>This is what I was going to post
*I won’t give up our vacation- where my H works, they work holidays- the only ones they have off are 4th of July, Thanksgiving- Xmas & New Years.
They traded holidays to take off the time between Xmas and New years. Since the kids had that time off already & since we are all busy with jobs in the summer, we started taking off that time when my oldest was 6.
It was a good thing we did, because that is the only time that we are sure not to miss. Camping vacations never get taken because of conflicts with someone, We didnt visit D in college as a family- unless you count driving her there at the beginning of the year, which we did a few times.</p>

<p>Im really not trying to make this into a contest- we all decide where we can afford to scrimp- but when my D went to college, was the first time I had stayed in a hotel with my H since our one night honeymoon twenty years earlier. ( #D2 was off at camp)*</p>

<p>I think there is a movement however- to become more independent- reminiscent for me of the 60’s- 70s, when growing your own food- sewing your own clothes was “fashionable”.</p>

<p>I guess I was a “hippie” back then even though I was 10 in 1967,
I had the first copy of [The Whole Earth Catalog](<a href=“Whole Earth Catalog - Wikipedia”>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whole_Earth_Catalog&lt;/a&gt;),
I convinced myself I liked carob,:stuck_out_tongue:
I had several editions of[diet for a whole planet]( <a href=“http://www.smallplanet.org/”>http://www.smallplanet.org/&lt;/a&gt;)
I read [Secret life of plants]( <a href=“The Secret Life of Plants - Wikipedia”>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Secret_Life_of_Plants&lt;/a&gt;) and had houseplants in my room at home, even though my mom didn’t even garden in suburbia.
( I didnt understand the attraction to the Grateful Dead though)
I practiced Hatha Yoga and meditated- or at least tried to.</p>

<p>Im not sure where this interest came from- however I was exposed to other ways of living through frequent babysitting jobs and I attended an “alternative” high school for a while.</p>

<p>But anyhoo- I was at the bookstore trying to find a copy of Great Expectations for D ( library was out- and so were two bookstores) and I ran into this book which made me think of all the people I’ve met lately who are either trying to live off the grid or are attempting to be more self sufficent in some way. [country wisdom](<a href=“Powell’s Books | The World’s Largest Independent Bookstore”>Powell’s Books | The World’s Largest Independent Bookstore) and it made me wonder- what happened to the yuppies?</p>

<p>[Oh- do you want frites with that?](<a href=“http://seattlepi”>http://seattlepi</a>.
nwsource.com/local/349621_needle01.html)</p>

<p>Were you a flower child?</p>

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<p>Oh, most definitely! I was only 7 in 1967, and I remember watching the hippie protests on tv and wishing I were old enough to be a part of it!</p>

<p>I did my best to catch up!</p>

<p>I never understood the appeal of the Dead, either…I was more of a Pink Floyd/Led Zeppelin person!</p>

<p>So what happened to all the hippies? Many sold out, but some went on to become New Agers/Lightworkers/environmentalists…and still working for change in a positive way.</p>

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<p>I can’t remember, so yes, I probably was.</p>

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<p>No long hair, but definitely a free spirit. The Dead, Allman Brothers, Traffic among some of my favorite bands. Still are for that matter though I’ve added Phish, moe., Gov’t Mule, and a few others to the mix.</p>

<p>Only question, how can any self-respecting hippie not be a Deadhead?</p>

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<p>Wharfrat, well, I can answer that one in three words: two-man drum solos. </p>

<p>Although I don’t think I can count as a self-respecting hippie. Like Lealdragon, I was 7 in 1967. My Barbies had cool hippie outfits, though. And my teenage sister and brother didn’t wash much. :)</p>

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<p>That’s why I can’t identify with all the kids who post on CC; they have no concept of taking a gap year for the purpose of following the Dead around the country!!!</p>

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<p>Tangerine with lime green chalk stripes, with a blue silk paisley handkerchief dangling from a belt loop, and a lime chiffon shirt with three buttons open.</p>

<p>That’s was me! (still is inside)</p>

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<p>(swoooon!)</p>

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<p>No, I was a beach bum though. Sort of in the same family as hippie. We wore flip flops, halter tops, and the guys had long hair.<br>
Of course, I’m too YOUNG to have been a hippie (cough). When I was seven, my H was in Vietnam.</p>

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<p>I saw a bumper sticker ‘Where have all the hippies gone?’ which is quite relevant today…</p>

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<p><a href=“http://iclips.swarmcast.net/[/url]”>http://iclips.swarmcast.net/&lt;/a&gt; concert of Dead members playing at Obama Benefit a few days ago. Phil, Bobby, Mickey and a bunch of others</p>

<p>I was 6 in 1967 so I was a late blooming hippie in the 70’s</p>

<p>Phil Lesh will be 68 next month and I love his bands!!!<br>
Bobby needs to shave. Jackie Green is great in Phil’s new band. </p>

<p>Only saw the Dead 27 times before Jerry died, but I’ve seen every Further and TOO and Phil show that has come to town… real deadheads will know what I’m talking about!</p>

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<p>About 20 times for me, caught TOO once and JGB on occasion. I still have yet to see Phil and Friends or Ratdog though I do have a bunch of shows on CD that figure heavily into the rotation. I’m listening to Boston 5-7-77 in the car at the moment. (not literally)</p>

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<p>That’s so cool! sue and wharf, you have my respect!</p>

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I was sort of the opposite - I at times had long hair (mostly too cheap to have it cut) and some might have thought I was hippie-ish looking as a result but I’ve always been fairly conservative. I did go see the Grateful Dead in concert once and was quite disappointed with the whole crowd (except me) smoking pot, people getting carried off the field in stretchers (too much drugs), etc. I also saw George Carlin in concert once and he was awful - he was so stoned out he couldn’t remember any of his lines and had to end the show early (not long after he went to rehab). </p>

<p>But, I remember going to a ‘Rare Earth’ concert at the Air Force Academy. Not a single soul was doing drugs, the air was clear, the crowd was enthusiastically enjoying the band (instead of the drug scene) and the group put on a much better concert than when I’d seen them before at a normal venue (drug scene again).</p>

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<p>16 in 1967. Definitely a hippie. Hair down to my waist, member of SDS. Many demonstrations. Won’t go further because I really shouldn’t. But definitely a hippie, Woodstock and all.</p>

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<p>wharfrat - go see Phil. He has played with various incarnations of Friends. </p>

<p>here is a link to phil shows, he allows shows to be downloaded for free, this is a totally legitimate site </p>

<p><a href=“Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Books, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine”>Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Books, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine;

<p>his older son goes to Stanford (he had his kids late in life)</p>

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<p>Sue, Thanks. I’m already a frequent visitor and downloader on the archives.
In fact I was just on there listening to a moe. show while I grade papers this afternoon.</p>

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<p>It was a very fun time. I don’t know about the idea of selling out. It can also be thought of as becoming responsible, which is what you do when you have kids and want to provide for them. I knew many hippies with trust funds, and those of us without trust funds had to support ourselves somehow! </p>

<p>Check this out. Brings back nuance of that time as nothing else. Disclaimer-written by a friend who was part of my hippie life. He believes in bringing back hippie values. I very much appreciate how some hippie values have become mainstream over the decades. I love that Whole Earth catalogue value of doing for yourself. Gardening, sewing, building. Problem is, our culure has made it less expedient to do so, full time jobs to provide for health insurance and college tuition being necessary. </p>

<p><a href=“http://www.hippiedictionary.com/index.html[/url]”>Error;

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<p>I was at Antioch College in 1969 and not many of us went to Woodstock (I didn’t) but those who did said, “It’was a lot like here, but muddier.” I was totally a hippy and I feel good about it–the combat boots and the great weird clothes and wanting to join the Hari Krishnas in NYC.</p>

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<p>No, not a hippie, but sort of a wanna-be. I did drag my whole family to Vietnam war protests. But I listened to Simon and Garfunkel not the Greatful Dead (learned to love them later though.) I did own the first Whole Earth Catalog. My parents took me to see Hair and also to the Woodstock movie. Maybe my parents were the hippies, in their secret heart of hearts? I didn’t care for A Diet for a Small Planet, but do have a first edition Moosewood Cookbook and Vegetarian Epicure.</p>

<p>Oh and I got yelled at for wearing my Dad’s Marine Corps jacket with my school uniform. :)</p>