Mamikin,
For the sense of hope and idealism to make this a much better world/USA read THE GREENING OF AMERICA, I just plain fell in love with that book around 1977, my Sociology teacher knew how involved my friends and I were with the movement (I am talking about a foreign university, but she knew that my friends and I could read and understand English, so we got pretty much into discussions out of that book). The Beattles were also my favorite group, got several versions of MICHELLE, by them and other singers, instrumental and also sang in other languages, last I remember was that MICHELLE was their song with the most translations and most varied versions. I wonder if it still is. I think so, because IMAGINE became popular after they were separated and it did not have the world popularity that MICHELLE had.
As for being a goody two shoes I guess I was one you would call that because I did not smoke pot. Several of my best friends did but I never saw peer pressure to do so. They knew I would say no and stick to my Parliament cigarrettes, and that I could have as much fun as they did, if not more, as I always full control of my senses. I got high on a lot of things, from discussions with teachers, to reading Robert Frost and Allan Ginsberg, to Herman Hess to Walt Whitman, I never thought I needed pot to get high, plus I danced a lot also, now THAT gave me a high!!! A saying in Spanish goes something like: TO REMINISCE IS TO LIVE AGAIN... Thanks!
See Steady, you are making us all relive nice memories...
For the sense of hope and idealism to make this a much better world/USA read THE GREENING OF AMERICA, I just plain fell in love with that book around 1977, my Sociology teacher knew how involved my friends and I were with the movement (I am talking about a foreign university, but she knew that my friends and I could read and understand English, so we got pretty much into discussions out of that book). The Beattles were also my favorite group, got several versions of MICHELLE, by them and other singers, instrumental and also sang in other languages, last I remember was that MICHELLE was their song with the most translations and most varied versions. I wonder if it still is. I think so, because IMAGINE became popular after they were separated and it did not have the world popularity that MICHELLE had.
As for being a goody two shoes I guess I was one you would call that because I did not smoke pot. Several of my best friends did but I never saw peer pressure to do so. They knew I would say no and stick to my Parliament cigarrettes, and that I could have as much fun as they did, if not more, as I always full control of my senses. I got high on a lot of things, from discussions with teachers, to reading Robert Frost and Allan Ginsberg, to Herman Hess to Walt Whitman, I never thought I needed pot to get high, plus I danced a lot also, now THAT gave me a high!!! A saying in Spanish goes something like: TO REMINISCE IS TO LIVE AGAIN... Thanks!
See Steady, you are making us all relive nice memories...
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