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<p>mythmom, you’re inspiring!</p>
<p>Hmmm… not sure that I can trust any of these stories. I bet you’re all over 30.</p>
<p>Speaking of The Doors, has anyone read Wonderland Avenue?</p>
<p>If not, it’s a must for all hippies, hippies-has-beens and hippie-wanna-bes!</p>
<p>btw, hippies still exist. My son is living at a student-run co-op and it’s full of genuine hippies. (Except, instead of Bob Dylan posters, they have Rage Against the Machine.) If I didn’t know better I’d think I was having a flashback!</p>
<p>If you were a New York hippie (especially if you remember the Catskills in their glory,) you’d probably love the movie, “A Walk on the Moon” if you haven’t seen it.</p>
<p>My exchange student D was telling me why one girl in their crowd of foreigners was her best friend. “We’re the only ones with hippie parents.” Apparently there is another generation on the rise. </p>
<p>And I thought I was the model of convention in my parenting life. </p>
<p>I am sad for the current generation of kids coming up, as public nudity was so commonplace at that time. Not a big deal. We’re all beautiful, right? Despite plunging necklines, and far too low back of the pants exposure, these kids are far more circumspect about actual naked bodies. Something has been lost.</p>
<p>“… a first edition Moosewood Cookbook and Vegetarian Epicure.”</p>
<p>VEG EP!! I have my copy of The Veg Ep right here, with the pages still marked for that scrumptious Savory Cheese and Onion Pie and half a dozen other favorites.</p>
<p>I spent my two weeks back then at Twin Oaks (“a Skinnerian behaviorist commune”) in Louisa, VA, making hammocks and building up labor credits and using Community Clothes. Marty and I were going to finish school and get a little farm where we could go back to the land (probably in British Columbia, that’s where all the good farms were said to be) using all that good information in Mother Earth News, and raise Josh and Terra, the puppies.</p>
<p>Didn’t work out.</p>
<p>mootmom: You definitely qualify.</p>
<p>Vegetarian Epicure is great- I didn’t buy it till the 90s though.</p>
<p>But I have a first edition of Laurel’s Kitchen & the Tassajara Bread book.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.hoboes.com/Diner/revue/tassajara.shtml[/url]”>http://www.hoboes.com/Diner/revue/tassajara.shtml</a></p>
<p>[however, I never heard anyone ever use “groovy” except sarcastically](<a href=“Hippie Books and Videos - Hippies From A to Z by Skip Stone”>Events for January 2024 – Hip Planet)</p>
<p>Oh! Oh! Oh! </p>
<p>And not only did I learn and practice TM, but I worked at the center where new initiates received their mantras.</p>
<p>And I still have quite a few of my wallpaper print cotton peasant skirts and a fringed suede vest and several pairs of Earth Shoes. (The new Earth Shoes are great, but those old lace-up suede Earth boots, wow, those were mighty fine.)</p>
<p>Hey… didn’t we go down this road before once? Deja vu, man…</p>
<p>Well, I became a hippie publisher (the largest pacifist publishing house in the world) which exists to this day, and does several million dollars of business each year, mostly books on sustainable everything:</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.newsociety.com%5B/url%5D”>www.newsociety.com</a></p>
<p>My older d. lives in a hippie coop at school, and Monday she went to see Elaine Brown (if you know who she is without looking it up, you’re hip!)</p>
<p>I know that I am almost double 30, and having enough experience of the world, I am absolutely sure that the maxim is correct.</p>
<p>Veg cookbooks? That’s all I have in my kitchen. Been vegetarian for 26 years and my 19-yo son has never had a bite of meat in his life.</p>
<p>mini: You are the hippie king! Like in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, our Oberon.</p>
<p>And as I said earlier, dear friend in Green Party, so not really that hip, but somewhat in the know.</p>
<p>^^ Oberon in tangerine and lime green striped pants and an unbuttoned lime shirt, as I recall… :D</p>
<p>Straight out of central casting mootmom.</p>
<p>Don’t forget the blue silk paisley handkerchief - it was my trademark when I went to Oxford. 
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<p>Oh, we won’t. It’s in the movie, definitely.</p>
<p>I always got a kick out of the girls at my northeastern boarding school who wore rags, smoked pot and chanted, “Up the Revolution!!” as they ran to cash their trust fund checks! Even at 15 I noticed a serious disconnect!</p>
<p>Hippie child here. I was a baby at anti-war rallies, “hey hey LBJ, how many kids have you killed today?” Addressing ash-filled envelopes to Nixon in crayon. Tie-dyed dashikis, organic gardening, and a very young awareness of the drug use that went on after we went to bed. I have my mom’s tattered copy of the Moosewood cookbook with her fabulous notes about how recipes went over or adjustments she made. It all seems so sweet in my memory. The reality was it wasn’t easy at the time because we were so very different from the other kids at school. The other moms had perms and polyester and processed food. We had handknit sweaters from homespun wool and stuck out like sore thumbs.</p>
<p>Yeah, I remember one classmate who said he was a communist but wouldn’t let anyone touch his guitar.</p>
<p>I still wear beautiful Indian dresses–got a fresh batch in India 4 years ago. I even had white Earth shoes that I wore as a hospital nurse.</p>
<p>If you want to see major hippies go to a Rainbow Gathering.</p>
<p>Time to shovel out my car so I can get to my yoga class.</p>
<p>great lakes mom</p>
<p>There is no shortage of public nudity on today’s college campuses. Not to worry.</p>