Where are the hippies?

Where have they gone?

Have they given up?

Has the Establishment

taken its toll?

Has the snake gone to sleep,

curled up in the sand?

Has the Rainbow faded

in a whitewash sky?

A voice inside me tells me

"We are still here,

maybe sadder,maybe happier,

not always wiser,

not always smarter,

still fighting for this or that,

still refusing to conform,

We`ve still got our pride!

Let the Rainbow shine again,

let the snake wake up,

the desert is still warm,

the sky is still blue and silver

and full of diamonds...Elizabeth Aldam.

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Thank you,it si so good to learn not all is lost ,that love and harmony still matter to at least some people and that they don`t give up...Love.

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I keep telling CARE2 they need some HIPPIE emoticons.

This will have to do...

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Just a thank you to Elizabeth and Brad. I needed that. Peace, Deborah

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I became a hippie at 15 (35 years ago ) and now, living in my *upscale* suburban home, am still one!  If only my neighbours knew what went on behind our closed front door .

I still wear a peace sign around my neck, my hair is down to my waist, we listen to "our" music, and generally still live a kick-ass hippie lifestyle.

Hans, my hubby, works for a large Garden Centre, which he loves, as it affords him the opportunity to work outside and with plants.  I stay at home due to problematic health, so I bake, cook, garden in summer, take care of the house, and do whatever I want to do.

I am able to be fairly active on Care2 since joining, as I have lots of time on my hands.  Lots of our friends are still hippies, and I don't think we'll ever die out ~ until we really die for good.

This post probably doesn't make a lot of sense to you ~ in rereading it it doesn't make a lot of sense to me, either.  But I'm still going to post it.  I just wanted to let you all know that hippies are alive and well in Ontario, Canada.

peace and love

Lizzzie

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Torrey ~ I have to agree with what you say.  Hans and I have a niece, who is 24 now, and is definitely and old spirit and a true hippie.  She listens to music from the 60's and 70's, shops at flea markets and second hand stores, is the kindest, most gentle person one could meet, and works with autistic children and teenagers. 

She has been smoking with us for 3 years now, and her mother, my sister (who is 50 now), tried for the very first time just last summer.  We didn't let on to either of them that the other had smoked with us, too.  But at our birthday party in January it all came out, and there were the four of us, Hans, my sister, my niece and myself, all out in the backyard puffing away.  It was so great to all come together like that.

I'm finding that a lot of her generation are like her ~ at least her friends are.  And a lot of the people who work with Hans are the same.  It is a joy to have them over for a visit, and really quite funny when they realize that in some cases we are older than their parents ~ they think we are so !!!!  My best friend's daughters are the same, come to think of it, and they are 21 and 24.  It's so nice that the values we really cared have been passed down to our children, and are now being passed down to their children.

peace and love

Lizzzie

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YES WE ARE STILL HERE,YOUNG AT HEART,MAY BE NOT IN BODY ANY MORE,BUT WE STILL BELIVE IN LESS GOV,FREE LOVE AND MORE POWER TO THE PEOPLE.

GOD I LOVE THE 60'S THEY WERE GREAT IN ALL WAY'S,THE ONLY THING I DON'T LIKE ABOUT THE 60'S WAS THE WAR,I LOST A LOT OF GOOD FRIEND'S,BECAUSE OF THE GOV.AND THE RICH TRYING TO GET RICHER WITH THE COST OF US YOUNG MEN IN THE SERVICE OF OUR GOVERMENT.

THE MUSIC WAS GREAT AND ALL THE PARTYS WERE THE BEST LASTING FOR DAY ON END,WHAT CAN I SAY ,I MISS THE 60'S AND GREAT TIMES I HAD,AND MANY FRIENDS I MADE ALL OVER THIS GREAT COUNTRY OF OUR'S.

NIGHTHAWK.

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Plenty of us younguns out here!

All you have to do is walk down Hawethorne in Portland, or go to Beltaine in Seattle, or hang out downtown in Bellingham...We're here...we're trying to keep up the good work so to speak.

I'm 20, hair to my hips, loathe fabric softener, love organic, trying to protest and make change in the current ragime...and if that doesn't work myself and friends are builiding an intentional community (the apGaia Tribe http://www.care2.com/c2c/group/apgaia_tribe, we're here on Care2) in order to be able to live our beliefs without fear...

Love the music, love the ideals, we call ourselves hippies with pride even when people tell us "we're to young" to be hippies. So don't worry, we're here even when it feels like all the twenty-somethings are punks or barbies...we're still here, canvasing for our state PIRG's or the Sierra Club, going barefoot whenever we can, and sometimes even dancing naked in the sun ...getting by and trying to make a difference.

Thanks for the wicked cool group!

GoddessBless-

Nuala

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I was in the haight/ashbury section of S.F. 1966 off and on till 1969.  I've lived in California most of my life since 1953.  I migrated with fellow hippies from S.F. to Big Sur, Laguna Beach, etc.  Lived in communes,crash-houses, etc.  Finally migrated to Hawaii in 70.  Been to Maui and lived in Banna Patch, Big Island, Kona side.

Now in San Diego with some really great memories to warm my thoughts....

p.s. don't let the picture fool ya...who uses their own?

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You host some pretty wicked cool groups yrself!

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I do, too.  Mine was taken on New Year's Eve.

peace

Lizzzie

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where we all end up

screwed up

blown up

blown away

still blasting

night & day

to the sounds

the very special

sound

of the

universal magik

that lives

on

and

on

and

on

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  www.hipforums.com    and

  www.rainbowfamily.org   Annual rainbow festival is going to be in West Virginia/western VA this year first week of July.  Its incredible. People of all walks of life and all ages gather in the thousands throughout a lush forest and camp, and drum, and dance, and sing, and are brothers and sisters of the earth together once more.  The exact location is to be annouced, you can check on the festivals link to see when they announce it.

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Not rainbowfamily.org ---> it is www.welcomehome.org

sorry 

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Good Morning too you

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COOL!

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WERE HERE as my co-actress told me last nite leaving final dress rehearsal for Agatha Christie's "And Then There Were None". She says, "Ron you're the epitomy of a hippie" I had my tiedye earth shirt on and I have 40's Cary Grant haircut for my part.

Peace earth brothers and sisters,

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That's so groovy!  And so far out

   FLOWER  POWER  

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I have somthing I just have to share with you Hippies

http://tracyjones.net/tfteisyf.html

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My name is Cassie, I'm 20 years old and I have a problem.... I'm Triple J... Janis Joplin Jr. as some of my friends at work call me and love every minute of it.  I just wanted to say how goes it and I'm glad to be proud of the hippie pride group! 

And by the way I thank my dad for making me hippie!  He and my mom was both, mom kinda got out of it, but my dad is still hippie at heart, at 60 years old!  Me and him listen to Janis and Abba many many times as we work on moms old Plymoth!

I know someone up there was talkin about living a diverse lifestyle... dont feel bad me also.  First I was gothic/punk  for a few years in school, then graduated and realized I really couldn't get a respect or a job for who I was because of it so that kinda died out.  Then here came the hippie out of me that I always loved.  And now hippie I still don't get much respect 1 because of the happiness in me (hippie) and 2 because I'm 20.  But after people get to know me they really do like me, you just gotta give me a chance. 

So I hope I get to know everyone here, and hope you all get to know me.

Love&Light,

Cassie

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I think you chose the correct lifestyle if what you want is JOY PEACE and LOVE

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Hello I am Dixie!

I would label me hippy any day of a week. Not middle-aged! Not, divorced...! Not "old"... definately HIPPY is a frame of mind - it's wonderful! I'm here!!

I am coming back!

Dixie

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You said it, Donna!!! Yes, I'm still here and still a hippy--hippies live forever, didn't you know?!!

And still anti-establishment (tho not in a cardboard box!!)

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In the words of Johnny Winter -----

"every now and then I know it's kinda hard to tell -- but I'm still alive and well!"

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Just wanted to stop in and say hi and where is ev1

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felix, just because we are few and far between doesn;t mean we are in the dark, (flowerchildren, outcasts and hippies) we ARE the light!!! all else is in the dark, our hearts are full of light!!

And don't worry about labels. They are what you make of them. Hippie is a feeling, or lifestyle, not a label or stereotype.

I am a 20 year old female from Vancouver Island, BC, CANADA where being a hippie is SO widely accepted that I couldn't live anywhere but here! I've always been different, but lately I've just opened myself up to the world, and feel more at home and comfortable than a lot of people.

Just writing to let everyone know that the hippies are definitely alive and well, growing, evoliving, and spreading like crazy over here on God's Garden of Paradise!!

Come and check it out, you'll never want to leave!

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I think I may have just stumbled on a visional way to end war. Yep accomplish transport with out energy and resource consumptions. No petroleum dependency, emissions, accidents, or congestion. All the while removing the greatest part of our societies exhaustive energy and resource consumptions who are taking out ecological and environmental systems.

A purely minor investment in a distributing structure will allow transport to be carried out with no energy or resource consumption. Accomplishing a cost and speed which will allow the average person to afford the time and expense to travel globally.

Funny thing though George W. Bush and company isn't interested in saving millions of lives and loosing billions of bucks.

There is something fundamentally wrong with a society when it is continually prevented from achieving a far greater level of well-being by corporate interest who want to preserve the reliability of thier investments in antiquated processes.

Any one interested in working on a conceptual view of achieving that very large change which is needed in order to accomplish that greatest potential level of social, economic, environmental and ecological well-being possible.

There is much which needs to be done and the time taken could not be more important.

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well hiya dudes and dudesses --

well i have never considered myself a heap eye, although many ppl looking at my appearance, do.

Since the advent of heap eye ism in oz trail eea, i have admired some of the philosophies of the heap eyes, but have consistently failed to see many who walk the talk.

even one girl i knew in the 60's who dropped out to nimbin, like many other dropouts of the 60's -70's still lives in the same tent she moved up there with.

and has populated this starving planet with another 10 consumers, three of whom have also started building their own breeding factories. -- all on 1 acre -- when vegetarians need about 20 acres each to bio sustainably exist -- thats 300 acres of sustainable production land that comes from where? -- love , peace, forget the rest.

So i dropped out too and have continued living on the edges of society, and have continued to bite at the edges, sometimes so much the core has collapsed. hehehe

during this time i have caused governments to conserve many thousands of hectares that would have otherwise been stripped of its native vegetation and be razed for housing, i have grown distributed and planted millions of native trees , shrubs and grasses, and havent purchased any new tools or materials for maintenance of myself or the land for years -- all is recycled or second hand.or 'donated by the government.

when i last visited the nimbin shire i was astounded at the shocking state of the environment there -- a virtual weed vista -- but lots of happy heap eyes still sitting in smoke hazes on the street benches, whilst the single parent kids hit up in the alleyway.

Having said that, i am in awe of the effect of the heap eye generations mind set in spreading the effects of lysergic way into mainstream flim, media, the arts and life -- its a better world on many spiritual levels now for many people simply because of the heap eye drive for rejection of traditional religions and the lies the church stands for. [ i still have a 60's lapel badge that says "question authority" ] 

the concept of gaia would never had happened

ok -- so thats enough for a monday morning rave in the rain --

i will enjoy watching threads in this group, but not being cosmetically enjoined to my pc, there may not be many posts lol

have a kewl week, month, year -- and for your sake, and that of the future inhabitants of this planet, get active.

:}

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from oxfordshire ......if you want to know what the hippies do around here check out my msn blog page on eirwenmitchel@hotmail.com  which is called 'the world according to snow white' i am so please to have this connection

peace and love , with love and light eirwenxxx

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ALIVE AND WELL DOWNUNDER

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The hundreds of millions of people who participated in peace protests around the world against the Iraq invasion gave me hope that there will be a better future.

Most of the world is against the illegal invasion, but there are still a lot of "Cold War and old world mentality" leaders who persist in doing the opposite of what a majority of the people want. Someday the majority will RULE, and peace will prevail.

Come on over to the Peace Think Tank and hang out... share a poem or two, spread the peace.

Eric

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I just wanted to chime in and say that yes we are out there. I too have been told many times that I was born in the wrong time. I'd have to say that it's not true. The 60's may have been the hey-day for the hippies but we are still needed in this world now. When the world finds peace and togetherness then we can all rest but until then we must lead the lives we do and keep fighting toward peace.

It took me a while to find the hippie path but in doing so I have found many amazing free spirited souls out there. I'm so glad to see all of you here.

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Alive and still kicking in Colorful Colorado! So very happy to see so many kindred spirits!

Peace and Love

Iambeatle

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I'm here & representing the future generation of Hippie (us tennagers)!

With ManySmiles,

      Kristine C. 

P.S. !!!

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you can find a lot of us on sorryeverybody.com.......

even us country boys... 

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Still here, Never Left! Although for some of us during the 60's our minds did leave periodically when we were(ahem) seeking enlightenment!  I still have all my albums (yea vinyl) lol from when I was like 14 on.....! About 300 albums. Met Jim Morrison and helped pick him up from the mud in the rain...at our local Hippie gatherings on Friday nights here (Florida)

So much good times to remember, so pure of heart were we Hippies, and most of us still are. "don't ever change" was what we all promised to each other around the world...and deep down I know, we have all kept that promise.  I am proud to say I brought my two ( now grown) kids up with the mindset, of Peace, Love and harmony....and they both live the life of light in their hearts as well.

Thank goodness a lot of my hippie friends still live in and around, to where we are still doing yearly gatherings.  So much fun.......brings tears of joy when we do get togetgher......Thank you for this site! Will come back often 

Peace

Deb

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In 72, I graduated from college, a while after storming the chancellor's office (& probably getting an fbi file).

I've kept a lot of the good values from that time. Today, as I was leaving the market w/ my canvas bags, the young cashier commented on how nice it'd be for the environment if everyone did that. She was amazed when I told her that one of the bags she was looking at was from the early 70's. Imagine, how many plastic & paper bags this one bag has kept out of the landfill!...Imagine if more people took their own canvas bags to the stores (I take mine even when shopping at the mall)...

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                                            Peace

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I want to premote , , &  Power throught thee Earth!

~*~"MAKE PEACE; NOT WAR!~*~

~*~PEACE-UT & HAVE A GRVY DAY!~*~

~Kristine C.~

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Hi from an English Hippie!

Lots of us over here, especially where I live in Suffolk.  I've just spent a glorious couple of weeks living with nearly 500 other old hippies at a wonderful community event called Dance Camp East. A friend took some photos ... http://www.flickr.com/photos/seyfang/sets/342997/

So much positive energy I'll be flying for weeks!

  Sally

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Hello What's happening man? Where is it  at? May you all find yourselfs. I'm still looking for ME. PEACE--STANLEY---

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www.ruigoord.nl

barry

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The hippies have not gone away,

Nor have they go to sleep.

They've gone to smell the flowers

And to share a love that's deep.

They've raised up all their children

And climbed life's mountain high,

To pin their dreams upon a star -

Forever in the sky.

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Still in Spain and more of us all the time from all over the place it's so laid back here we are all practically horizontal so come find us!!

love the poetry it's really cool and listening to the monkees? we are listening to george harrison and uriah heep at the moment !!!! Hugs all

Sharon

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just wanted to add that i, too, use my real photo on this website, no matter how good/bad i look...it's on my profile...so, jb, what's there to hide? this is a site of like-minded people with lots in common...relax and share...

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hippie turned disco queen back to spiritual hippie

Where are all the hippies, we are still here, carrying forwards still changing the world and it's cares.

Many bands come to mind & still have, Blind Faith, Cream, Ten Years After, Hendrix, Beatles, Stones, White Bird Is Flying , Cat Stevens, Crosby Stills & Nash, Ram Dass!!..... Creedance Clearwater, Morrison (oops sorry the Doors) , Joplin (Miss Pearl) saw her live, and didn't make it to Woodstock but make it to Stawberry Fields Jethro Tull, Iron Butterfly, some great memories....... and a few not so great, lol. If I had known that a persons frontal brain is still maturing until you are 25 I would not have done so much acid, good old electric koolaid, or maybe I would have, we were young and indestructable, or so we thought until are own 1 by 1, sucummed.

Some memory sites, and some for old hippies

http://members.aye.net/~hippie/real.htm#groovy

http://www.rockument.com/links.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippie

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I'm new to the group and wanted to say Hi to all.

Being born at the end of the 60's, most would assume that I am in the in between hippie years. That is what I thought for quite some time also. But I have found out differently.

When I started planning to open my store I thought I had a vision of how I wanted it to be and look. Well, it didn't exactly turn out the way I planned. It turned out way better.  

Let me know what you think

Is it Hippy worthy?

This was trade show #2

Well, like, hey man, uhhh, where didja look, cuz like ummm, I'm right here.

Pffffffffffft!           Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!

Oops! heh heh

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everyone around me calls me a hippie, so that must mean something.  my brother says, "why do you have to dress like that?"  his son says, "oh my lord, she's wearing tyedye again, why do you always have to wear tyedye?"  i'm proud to be a hippie mom, hippie crocheter, hippy daughter, hippy native american sister...my long haired 21 month old is going to be a hippie too.  he looks so adorable in tyedye, and he has his trusty granny square afghan.  love and peace! thank you so much for this groovy club.  oh, i try to tell my family, hippie is not how you dress, it's a way of life, a philosophy...d'uh,  yes, it is!

tamimarie

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I AM AN UNREPENTANT HIPPIE-YIPPIE FLOWER CHILD DIRECT FROM THE 60'S...I USED TO HELP FOCALIZE THE GRIFFITH PARK LOVE-INS IN LA WHILE WORKING W/GREEN POWER..WE FED THE STREET FREEX AND WE HAD A FREE STORE IN VENICE BEACH..... SOON I CAME EAST TO JOIN THE YIPPIES AND THE RAINBOW FAMILY.....

I BECAME THE MAD YIPPIE PIE THROWER...FEEL FREE TO VISIT http://www.pieman.org

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I used to do Tie Dye a few years back. I was known as the Tie Dye Lady. People used to come knockin on my door when I hung out a fresh batch to dry on my lanai. It was like they smelled pie and were attracted to it from all over the neighborhood only it was visual pie.

Do you Tie Dye your crochet work?

Yr right, Hippie is a state of mind tho, its our spirit whether we dress the "part" or not.

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I am so honored to have you as a member here (and on Protest Songs!).

Your reputation precedes you. You are a LEGEND in your own time. Not many can say that!

Your website has always been de rigueur for the anti-Fascist, Pot Legalization Movement. I`ve spent hours upon hours there and highly recommend others visit right away if they have not already done so.

Pot is an herb. Bush is a dope.

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we are still everywhere!!

all fascist infiltrators need to be pied at sunrise!!! and forced to listen to the likes of david peel, mc5 and pink floyd

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Love your site. Lots of great links!

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here i am i might be a little late but im here. almost missed the bus

in my family we had a cowboy, a school girl, a budhist and yey i got to be the best one of them all. I was the hippie and still am. nobady will ever tame this free spirit.

just a lil hippie chick from georgia here. hadda join this group! and i'm honored to be the 600th member! look forward to talkin' to all yall! hope everyone is well!

Tami-Rose

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hey we are everywhere!!! george shrub!!! whether you and your fascist clowns like it or not!!!

%#&!*% YOU VERY MUCH MR.BUSH

aron pieman kay

http://www.pieman.org

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What the he!! are all these long hairs doin' here? Freakin' hippies!! hehehe

[see my picture to get the humor]

Sex, love and Rock & Roll, baby. That's what it's all about.

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Just wanted to say high to the group. This hippie is currently in Alabama. Not a real good place for an 'old native american hippie nudist pagan' - LOL. Was traveling the world from 1974-1978 thanks to Uncle Sam and settled down in Hawaii (Oahu) until 1986. Got to love the Kona Gold, Maui Wowwie - LOL. But after living in 43 different countries there is no place like home - USA.

Walter

I know it is 4:20 somewhere.....

Hello Everyone

You just have to look for them, high and low, everywere.Love, light

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If you've ever been to Byron Bay, The Channon, Uki, Mullumbimby, Nimbin you will ALWAYS SEE HIPPIES were-ever you go. there everywere.

lots of themLove, love and Divine Being, Quaelyn

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Hey all, I liked the reference "Peace Out", made me smile and I know exactly what you mean about oops...hahaha kool.

See Ya!...Angelmouse

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Every smile makes the the world a better place to live in

Love, light and peace and Harmony to all.....

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Hello Ann S,

I know the message you sent out was directed at Krystal, but also helped me to as I'm also knew to care2 connect (the connect part) So thank you it helped me too.

Krystal,

Hello and Wellcome

Love and light to all.....peace out...

from Quaelyn

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I wish you...

Peace

In your journey through life.

I wish you...

Joy

In your quest to become the person you were ment to be,

(cnt)

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I wish you...

Courage

To face the difficulties that come into your life.

I wish you...

Freedom

To follow your fondest dreams,

I wish you...

As Much Happiness

as you have brought to me.

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This thread rocks!  Love the poems, pics, and discussion!  I'm a 28 year old hippie (and proud of it!) from Fort Wayne, IN.  Many of my friends are hippies too- we are alive and well, even in the conservative midwest!  At this moment, I'm listening to Cat Stevens' Peace Train and wearing my waistlength hair in 2 braids under a green doo-rag.  Peace and love to everyone!  Let's spread it to the rest of the world!  

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Believe it or not, the Moody Blues are still touring and recording. Talk about Hippie Music: WOW, Dudes and Dudettes.

http://www.moodyblues.co.uk/home.htm

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Just checkin' in to say there's still hippies way up here in the

Last Frontier.

peace to you all

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Did you ever stop and take look around?
When I think about the past it only brings me down
Everyone I thought was cool is six feet under ground

They tried to get me lots of times and now they're
Coming after you I got out and I'm here to say

Baby you can get out to I'm Still alive and well
So everyone will know

I'm still alive and well
I'm still alive and well every now and then its kind of hard
To tell I'm still alive and well

Johny Winter

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I'm back from my trip,

from Bellingen.

peace out....

from Q

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http://www.thefarm.org/

Here is a place!  I use to live here for many a years!  A beautiful place!

Peace and Love

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Cool website!

Please do add that to the redpinned Cool Webpage thread ?

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1. One of my first grade notebooks reads, in messy pencil writing "I hate the authorities!"

2. I was always an outcast

3. I hate war, racism, unfairness, injustice.....

4. I have been to numerous peace and human rights protests

5. I had my picture taken with Cindy Sheehan (april 29, NYC)

6. I am somewhat acquainted with Yippie Party co-founder, Dana Beal (he gave me some marijuana legalization posters) and he is on my email address list

7. The cops put my name in the local books for tresspassing at a school when I was trying to hang up signs for the pot-legalization rally I was organizing (they called it an inappropriate topic for a highschool). Next time, I get arrested.

8. I wear flowers in my hair.

9. I own classic rock CD's

10. I believe in anti-war principles, legalize pot, equality, gay rights, down with huge corporations....

11. I always got in trouble at school for questioning the authorities (which I don't believe in!!)

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Loved singing 'Imagine' as one of my songs in a Karaoke Competition, last Friday. Made to the finals, on Friday, the thirteenth (13). Also, by that time, my CD of original music should be ready, as well. Love & Peace to ALL.

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Well I am right here!!!

I was so very elated to find this site via my friend Lizzzie so hugs to you Lizzzie.  I may only be 44 but I have been a hippie since I was a small child, mindset and all,have  always been a nonconformist, and wouldn't eat meat haha, drove my parents nuts (lol).  Ever since I saw my first hippie and I was about 4, I had an instant connection to what they were all about; peace &  love, flower power and being kind,  and it shaped me to who I am today. 

My first Grateful Dead Show was the clincher though.  All my life I had been searching and living a peaceful, pretty groovy lifesyle....I was very natural, into organics and was and still am a vegetarian,

 but I had been working at our local city arena and The Dead were to play for 2 magical nites and thinking back on it now OMG I got to see them for FREE!! ...When the doors opened I could not believe my eyes?

 The people that flooded into the corridors and restrooms and the seating area blew my mind... AN ENTIRE COMMUNITY OF HIPPIES!!! 25,000 of them!!

They were so cool and well mannered, the music was totally groovy, the spirit and aura of the nite was so happening and peaceful, the vibe so real!  After that nite I rushed home and told my husband "you wouldn't believe what and who were at the coliseum this evening?" he asked who I said The Grateful Dead  and he said "really I didn't think they were still around"

I said baby they are still around and they were smokin tonite!!

Well needless to say my life changed from that night on. I got connected through the grapevine and then took my 3 kids and my husband the next year to see the Dead and we were hooked, My husband and I followed them until Jerry's untimely demise...

 What A Long Strange Trip Its Been ?  But I wouldn't have it any other way.  Perhaps my story isn't all that amazing to you but it is my story and it is how I became one with the hippie culture even though I was hip to it at such an early age!! And I am ever so glad to be here and connected to y'all today.  So  I am so happy to be here

Peace, love, and light 

 Mary-Ann B...I am also known on the internet as Sunshinedaydream

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to Hippie Pride!

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Even our children will be hippies only they may not notice.

Welcome.

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May you come from the sun,

may you come from the snow...

may you be big,may you be small...

I`m happy to see you blooming,

shining in the lights,the sweet lights

we once stole from the Dawn...

I`m happy to be among you...

my friends today,my friends of Old!Elizabeth Aldam.

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Highly

Intelligent

Person

Pursuing

Infinite

Enlightenment

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Thats great.

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This hippie went to see Arlo Guthrie earlier this month and the Whitney Museum's retrospective on the "Summer of Love."  I'm still here!  "You can get anything you want from Alice's Restaurant."

Peace, Luv and Understanding

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  I am still here,,,, I am borned Hippie, will stay Hippie till my end.        all

A special thanx to my brother Hippie who send me here.

Hippie Marie   

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Whoo hooo...yep...just checked...and I am still here after all these years. Burned the bra too, hippie chic to the core. My son came out hippie. He couldn't help it.  We have experienced a lot together, including a trip across country, and the Rainbow Gathering.    Us ole hippies will NEVER EVER DIE, we won't just fade away....and nor will our beliefs!!!! I sure am glad I have my GOOD morals!!!!     

Peace Out, Love and Light.... SummerDaze on the NC Coast 

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Know these hippies from Aussieland??!!!

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If there are peeps out there who still can't find any hippies, try looking here......the home of the hippies online and.............HAVE FUN!!!!

http://www.hipforums.com/forums/showthread.php?p=3734881#post3734881

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When I came back from Viet-Nam I marched on Washington.

I'm 60 now and a bit slower, but I won't stop marching until we stop killing people for our ''King George's'' and their greed for Tea , Slaves and Taxes.

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I'm here!

Started as a child of hippies - that makes me a flower child - I am my mother's daughter and always a hippie at heart.

Thanks for the invite Donna & WildOne

Peace Out

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I have no doubt whatsoever that you are a Hippie, Kim because I know you. Your kids are so lucky!

We should do a thread on Hippie parenting....it's sadly lacking in this world.

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Glad you're here!

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Your silly Donna.

Yeah, hippie or unconventional parenting.

I know I grew up very unconventional - it was fun and interesting. I remember my mom and her boyfriend were growing pot on the roof our beach house and ended up getting arrested and none of my friends parents would let them play with me.

It's not easy to have a free lifestyle these days or even to let your kids be free - too much corruption, over crowding, too many people with perverted motives, selfish motives, traffic, etc.. I would love to live on a farm where everyone could just run around, eat off the land, not go to conventional school but learn from home, no conventional jobs but be self suficient just doing enjoyable things and working in the home and yard etc.

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Yes, we should have a thread just for this topic!

I have witnessed teen & adult students who made it on to Honor Rolls because pot help their focus, their creative thinking, & their initiative, et al. Plus, kids -born to pot smokers- who are obviously intelligent, creative, & artistic, virtually from birth!!!

PEACE~

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Being a Hippie is a state of mind, A belief that all men and people of the world have a right to live in PEACE and Harmoney, That loving and caring about the man next to you and putting out a helping hand is the right thing to do. We all realized back in the sixties that it was time that our generation stud up and made a stand. We told our government that the Vietnam War must end. That Peace is prefered over war.Our generation could prove that by just treating each other with respect and kindness that the world could be a better place.

I am 60 years old and from the time I came back from Vietnam got out in the streets an marched. We as a generation did this to save our country. We got beaten and in alot of cases we where thrown in Jail. Yet we keep going until that War ended. Today our Generation the ones that didnt sell out are still out their Marching, talking to the younger generation the Iraq generation. We must use all of our experience to teach these kids what is right and wrong. Their are thank GOD alot of these kids who are bright enough to see the writting on the wall. Like we said in the sixties to our then war like Government UP AGAINST THE WALL MOTHER F--KER.

I believe we are out their alive and well and will continue to fight on to see our dream come ture, Imagine all the people living in a world of PEACE

Jim  

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I know this is 3 years old but strangely I made this same type of topic at another forum I visit after watching the woodstock video.

My entry in my thread:

The artists and people are mind blowing. You see the artists mingling and walking around in the open fields and no one bothers them for autographs, they're laughing and smiling and talking to strangers. There's no jewelry and name brand designers draped around them, they made their own style. And their personality's are admirable. They don't care about fame or fortune. You can tell they put everything into their music, their soul and strength. They wrote songs for people to sit and listen to and contemplate on issues. And it's awesome how the audience actually does listen! The fans don't scream at the top of their lungs during the music, they wait patiently until a song is over.

And the people . Oh my, everyone was a natural beauty. I don't know if it was their personality that came through, but practically every man and woman is beautiful no matter what age or race they were. And it wasn't just hippies. They showed the "preps" of the 60's, nuns, mothers, etc. The acceptance from the community was amazing as well. I still don't get where all the hippies went though? There were so many and I don't get why they stopped being that way. Was it a "phase", did they realize they had to conform and grew older and bitter, or did they just give up on the mentality and the chance for peace? Or was it all the drugs? :/

I'm honestly jealous of this time period! Could you imagine a music festival today that would spend $2 million+ for everyone to just get in free? I don't think so! Money is everything today and it's sickening. I'll even use Zeppelin's last concert as a source for this, they could have made it an event for every fan to attend but they didn't.

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Hi, Birdie... I'm here! How's it going? 

Judy C.

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i am here in queensland australia in a tiny country area where everyone does their own thing anyone else from queensland or aussieland still here

Love Peace and Harmony to all

love ya!

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Này, Ê! (hey, friend! in vetnamese )
I am but thirteen years old, and living in a house with a father whom I call a routinist.. he's got his every day written down, and believes that in order to be successful, you need money and power.
I was slowly slipping into his 'trap', when I realized there are already too many of those people... so, I became one who believed strongly in floccinaucinihilipilification... this, at first was fabulous, except for the fact that my family began to drift from me. Of course, family is most important, because they teach you love, no matter what form it's in. After about a year, I realized I needed to change. Now, I am a happy hippie, much for animal rights, peace, love, freedom, and understanding. My hair is very close to my waist, a few more inches and I'll be there. My father is starting to understand, and he's no longer the 'routinist'.. he's my best friend, and he has taught me so much.
Not to mention, my mother was an amazing person, and taught me almost everything I know. Sadly, this amazing woman passed on June 20th, 2005.

Tôi yêu bạn!
Peace and love,
SarahButterfly.

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Sarah Butterfly, You're only 13?  How did you become so wise?  Maybe your good parents helped you?

Re. rainbows:  yes, we have circular ones here in Saskatchewan:  but they are not regular rainbows - they are extensions of sundogs.  They are sundogs that got so big they grew together!   

The weirdest thing I ever saw was a rainbow arc that crossed another rainbow arc.  And it wasn't even raining!!!!  

Peace love and light.  Rachel

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 so glad I found this group. I'm 15, and am really into trying to live a hippie lifestyle . I'm really into the environment,   some of my friends call this site imahappytreehugger.com......yeah, sometimes i think they just don't appreciate the world . Anyway, really inspired by hippies  and those poems were so class, btw

Peace,

Aoife

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Aoife

And we are inspired by you, the youth of today who carry on the Hippie tradition!

Donna

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The world so desperately needs us now!  It's excellent to see some neo-hippies, especially if they go beyond the fashion statement and get into the hippie spirit. 

Peace and Love,

Judy C.          

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Awww thanks guys! I feel so welcome

Hugs to everyone!

Peace,

Aoife.

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not sure if this counts as advertising.. but i just joined the couch surfing project..

people come and stay on your "couch" or wherever.. almost like hostelling.. and you can go sleep on theirs..

havent had anyone sleep here yet, but i would advise discretion of course..

but a cool idea none the less.

couchsurfing.com

anyway.. hope everyones summer is going well.. ive been busy moving and havent stopped in to read lately..

hope care2 is still going strong.

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We are at concerts, festivals, hempfests, Bobby and Phil shows to name a few.

We are a small hippie family that is starting our website.  Currently we are looking for input and feedback from fellow hippies.  We are offering free shipping for our grand opening.  Please check it out:  sewmanycolors.com.  Also please use this code: hippie   and you'll receive a 15% discount.  Thanks!!   PEACE AND 420

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we are here!

establishment has taken our streets and parks away so we can't dance and laugh in them  anymore.

they have been taken over by stresssed out buisness people who dont take the time to appreciate the trees and colors around them.

they say we must conform and act like everyone else who is trapped inside of themselves,not knowing who they are and screming to get out of the mainstream.

but look around and you will see a bright arrangement of colors out of the corner of your eye, or maybe youll see a long skirt flowing with a rythm, you will even hear a guitar strumming in the background.

because we are here, refusing to conform, living the ways we were taught by our parents, or learned in the generation itself.

spread the love!

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living in amsterdam
and enjoying it

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 Did they melt, like the last spring snow???
Did the party grow cold, as the Hippies grew old???
 Nixon came and went, Vietnam, we just quit!!!
Woodstock, was a dream, that became a capitalistic scheem!!!
Even though we were right, we've forgotten how to fight!!!
We bought into their lies, and hung up our tied dyes!!!
 They flipped the disco switch, and money became our bitch!!!
Instead of peeing in a bottle, we snorted up our smiles!!!
We allowed the law, to wage war against the unchanged/ non-conformed, and did nothing when they were taken away in chains!!!
 The 70's became a thing of the past, until our children, found our tied dyes, peace signs, and our stash!!!

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I'm still here and groovin'! For those who don't know me, my name is Toni.  I'm enjoy nature. I love art, too.

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I`m happy to see my poem keeps getting replies...Love to see hippies around,old and new!

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