![]() ![]() The other women share similar experiences, but mostly we can see how each woman's unique situation formed her into the person she is today, with the core values born in a unique time in history.Īnd no matter what each woman's story is, the bonds of that time connect them and inform their lives in the present. Like so many holidays, the celebration itself has evolved into a celebration of a celebration rather than anything specific." She details how many of the people who attended were not part of the core group from that long ago time. She goes on to say: "When I first heard about the Gathering, I expected it to be like that-a big family reunion, a living memory-something like those half-remembered evenings listening to the Dead through kitchen speakers on that Iowa farmhouse porch. She describes occasionally meeting someone named "Summer" or "Star," and after an exchange of words that identify a common "hippie" childhood, knowing right away that there is some basic part of each other, some true thing that connects them. My memories of this period are pure and sweet: love and music, dogs and garden vegetables, sunshine and songs. My parents were both on the run: my mother from society's expectations for women at the time, my father from the draft and the war machine. My mother spent that summer sanding sixty years of thick white paint off the kitchen window frames.By fall the four frames were natural wood again and she began another project: sewing my father a green felt Robin Hood shirt (I have pictures of him smiling sheepishly in it). "In 1972, I was a naked flower baby on a farm commune in Iowa. What she discovered, of course, is that you can't really go back. In the case of Chelsea Cain, she had the opportunity to revisit that time period by attending an event touted as one of the last bastions of sixties-style counterculture years later: the Rainbow Gathering. Sigman, River Light, and others.we can almost experience their lives along with them. With a foreword by Moon Zappa and essays from various daughters of the "hippie" movement, such as Chelsea Cain, Rain Grimes, Diane B. ![]() And in these essays from "girlhoods in the counterculture," we can visualize what it was like and hear the songs and the beat of this unique subculture. Nothing captures the spirit of a social movement more than stories told in the voices of those who were there. I salute them for their beautifully told stories. ![]() I am a contemporary of many of these women, but our childhoods could not have been more different. Many of the authors loved the counterculture and the freedom of their childhood, others were damaged by it.Īll in all a fascinating look into a childhoods so diametrically opposed to my own. Some of these parents didn't protect their children from predators. I don't just mean having balanced meals, clean underwear and a bedtime when I talk about safety. Getting high, making groat muffins and exploring love with many partners wasn't always compatible with raising children safely. ![]() Some of the parents, in their enthusiam for tuning out, turning on and grooving to their own beat, abdicated their responsibilities as adults and parents. Liked the book but found many of the stories bittersweet and a couple downright painful. Postecoglou looked to his bench and summoned Rodrigo Bentancur and Oliver Skipp.Short essays by women whose parents were hippies in the groovy days of free love and moving back to the land or onto the commune. Spurs began the second half well, but they were reduced to nine men at home for the first time in the Premier League when Udogie was shown a second yellow card for hauling down Sterling. Romero is sent off for using excessive force.Ĥ5+11 mins: James avoids a red card on VAR review after raising his arm into the face of Udogie. Goal is disallowed for handball.Ģ8 mins: Caicedo finds the net from range but the goal is disallowed with Jackson standing in an offside position and interfering with Vicario's line of vision.ģ1 mins: After a lengthy VAR check, Chelsea are awarded a penalty for a foul by Romero on Fernandez in the build-up to Caicedo's shot. In the build-up Romero swipes at Colwill but avoids punishment. It was two-footed but he avoids a red.Ģ1 mins: Sterling drives into the box and shoots at goal, the ball hits Porro and then the hand of the Chelsea winger before he converts. 13 mins: Johnson feeds the ball across from the left and Son sidefoots home, but the flag goes up.ġ8 mins: Udogie goes into the book for a rash challenge on Sterling. ![]()
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