Hippies

[kenv1950]

The real Hippies might have the right idea . I'm in my 70's so you know I was there (not one though). I have a couple of them living near by . Please , I'm not trying to put anyone down for their way of life.
One of them is a friend for over 30 yrs. nothing of whats going on bothers him at all , kinda like Tao (goes with the flow) lives on the mountain in a shack (it fell down a couple times) it gets cold here , sometimes
25 - 30 below . Doesn't believe in soap (bad for the skin) hasn't shaved or cut his hair since the 60's . I know he hasn't taken a bath in 30 yrs. and he's happy ! although he has been stoned for 60 yrs. . The other couple are country hippies , been living off grid their whole life , a few yrs. ago his wife did shoot him with a 30/30 (he lived)
YES , I'm just sitting around bored . I ramble sometimes to get todays world off my mind for a little while

 

[BillMasen]

Hey , one old dude to another, If you can remember the 60s you were'nt there dude PEACE & LOVE man.

 

[OldButtoni]

LOL. So funny. I confess, I, too, have entered the 70-decade. I was in college in the late 60's. This post brings back so many memories of my UT days. We used to watch the stoners at Armadillo World Headquarters just to hear great live bands. Not sure which was more entertaining. LOL Oh, and the noxious scent of patchouli soaps and shampoos.............a world of unpleasant olfactory memories walking by hippies on the drag by campus. LOL

 

[Jayson]

It’s 2020 and I have hippies living across the street from me. Welfare and marijuana are their hobbies.

 

[OldButtoni]

 

[Oddcaliber]

I was a young kid in the 60's. Hit the teen years in the 70's. Lot of very cool bands back then.

 

[kenv1950]

It’s 2020 and I have hippies living across the street from me. Welfare and marijuana are their hobbies.

And their happy

 

[OldButtoni]

'70 is when I started teaching (high school French) in Texas. I know your peers well.

 

[kenv1950]

I really was there , seen them several times , mainly the party in the parking lot

 

[Robinjopo1]

I am the youngest with all brothers 3 brothers and 4 step. Grew up with 5 of them. I learned a lot about boys at a young age. The main reason I didn't date was watching them in action.

This was in the 70s and I was young but saw the 70s through their shenanigans.

I saw them experiment with lots of substances and they were always in bands so my parents and I went to lots of their concerts.

70s music is the best. Disco sucks.

 

[simpleman]

"I'm just an old hippie that don't know what to do, should I hang onto the old or grab onto the new!" I'm an old country hippie! Often called a redneck also!

 

[kenv1950]

"I'm just an old hippie that don't know what to do, should I hang onto the old or grab onto the new!" I'm an old country hippie! Often called a redneck also!

I'd hang on to the old the new isn't looking very promising

 

[DrHenley]

Well, I can remember what came before the hippies...the beatniks.

 

[Jayson]

And their happy

...hippies on mind altering drugs don’t know what reality is.

 

[Jayson]

Well, I can remember what came before the hippies...the beatniks.

Maynard G. Krebs...or is it Willie Gilligan?

 

[DrHenley]

Maynard G. Krebs...or is it Willie Gilligan?

Maynard G. Krebs on the show The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis. Nobody remembers Dobie Gillis, I can't even picture in my mind what he looked like, but I definitely remember Maynard G. Krebs.

 

[kenv1950]

 

[BillMasen]

LOL. So funny. I confess, I, too, have entered the 70-decade. I was in college in the late 60's. This post brings back so many memories of my UT days. We used to watch the stoners at Armadillo World Headquarters just to hear great live bands. Not sure which was more entertaining. LOL Oh, and the noxious scent of patchouli soaps and shampoos.............a world of unpleasant olfactory memories walking by hippies on the drag by campus. LOL

 

[BillMasen]

When I can look life in the eyes, Grown calm and very coldly wise, Life will have given me the truth, And taken in exchange ― my youth.


From Wisdom by Sara Teasdale


(American poet, 1884–1933)

 

[BillMasen]

In the 60's, people took LSD to make the world weird. Now the world is weird, and people take Prozac to make it normal.