Hippies Never Die — Free Verse
Take Me Back To Tie-Dye…
“The 60s were a leap in human consciousness. Mahatma Gandhi, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Che Guevara, Mother Teresa — they led a revolution of conscience. The Beatles, The Doors, Jimi Hendrix, created revolution and evolution themes. The music was like Dalí, with many colors and revolutionary ways. The youth of today must go there to find themselves.” Carlos Santana
Maybe this morning, sitting in my treehouse, I figured it out. Well, for myself anyway. The hippies had some things right. I am a bit younger but heard the call to action from them. It still permeates my thinking. Catholic school education could not blaze it out of my system. Thank God.
My ex-husband used to say- “ No one cares what you have to say.” Well, thankfully 22 years ago, I divorced him and have had much to say and many listen- or pretend to — lol. I thought of him today and how my life and that of my grown children would be so different if I stayed in that insanity. I would not have come to the happiness I have at this moment. Funny, how life is.
If what Santana scribes are truths — that the 60s were a leap of human consciousness — then haven’t we been lost ever since? Introspection, feeling “high” ( I am not referring to marijuana) in life/ with life seems to be so distant. Sure, we have had the…
