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A week late repost for the survivor's of "The Nation"
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A week late repost for the survivor's of "The Nation" |
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icebox Member Elite
since 2003-05-03
Posts 4383in the shadows 
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I Dropped Thirty Four Years And A Pair Of Rose Colored Glasses From a cleared hilltop on Yasgur’s farm I watched the tribe arrive. In four days time a nation’s children joined and came alive. We all made a statement, I’m sure that it was true, but I never saw it translated into any language I knew. Expanding like a universe, I watched us grow and die right before my eyes, four days of mindless sex, even screwing on manure piles under lightning drugged out skies, darkness in the hilltop camps, running out of water while drowning in the rain, four icecubes for a quarter chanting for the storm to pass, all the chants in vain, burning out the vendors after stealing all the food, eating with the Pranksters, grateful to be laughing with the uninvited Dead. We stayed alive on constant music, rain and mud and sullen skies sound bites and denial, later on what we read in lots of newspaper lies. © 2003, 2005 by icebox |
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serenity blaze Member Empyrean
since 2000-02-02
Posts 27738 |
and jealously, they seeded the clouds...  I want to hear all of your stories. (chuckling a bit at the mindless sex tho--is there any other kind?)  and  |
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iliana Member Patricius
since 2003-12-05
Posts 13434USA |
In some ways, I can't believe it has been 34 years...in other ways, I can. Tho' not there myself, we had our own small version of Woodstock, as I'm sure many of our generation did. I liked the song that Kenny Loggins did a few years ago, "Conviction of the Heart," addressing what we wanted then...and what we did or did not do about it. It did make a difference; it did. Whether the difference is good or bad, I have to believe it is going according to plan. And though I wasn't there, you have confirmed the feel of it for me.  ....jo |
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Martie
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-09-21
Posts 28049California |
icebox We are all survivors of something...I know I am....but it wasn't like this...it was more like hell. |
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Midnitesun
since 2001-05-18
Posts 28647Gaia |
"We stayed alive on constant music, rain and mud and sullen skies sound bites and denial, later on what we read in lots of newspaper lies." but this refrain remains the major chord of the day we still surround sound ourselves in bits and bytes, let only the notes we choose to hear reach our ear |
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Honeybunch Member Rara Avis
since 2001-12-29
Posts 7115South Africa |
icebox - Wow! "We all made a statement, I’m sure that it was true, but I never saw it translated into any language I knew." Makes one wonder what it was all for but I'm sure it all gets translated somewhere or other even if just in the clearing fields of soul. |
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LeeJ Member Patricius
since 2003-06-19
Posts 13296 |
to me, this is an example of man's dark nature...and yet, after being faced with such, you have implied through out PIP of your steadfast kindness and love for mankind...this is no exception...hugs and thank you |
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littlewing Member Rara Avis
since 2003-03-02
Posts 9655New York |
No matter the messed up times - which were many, of that era, I would give anything to have been a part of it, than the senseless garble I grew up in. Just read "The Acid Kool Aid Tests", icey and oddly enough, I have reached those levels of conciousness without drugs. What does that tell you about me? eh? I like the subtext here, how you kind of put all of the woodstocks peeking through - kind of like the degeneration of society - as it was and how much ideals have changed, the message lost. I am still upset with my mother because she didn't go, I wanted to BE a Woodstock baby. |
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Susan Caldwell Member Rara Avis
since 2002-12-27
Posts 8348Florida |
"We stayed alive on constant music, rain and mud and sullen skies sound bites and denial" Those things are what keeps me alive now. As a matter of fact, put some music on and sling a little mud this way, would ya? I could use it.  Extremely well done and thank you for sharing it with those of us that were only there in spirit. love you. "too bad ignorance isn't painful" |
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passing shadows Member Empyrean
since 1999-08-26
Posts 45577displaced |
I always love your stories |
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vandana
since 1999-10-22
Posts 10463USA |
good read |
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Gentle Spirit Member Patricius
since 2000-10-09
Posts 13989 |
ahh...yes... sometimes, I feel as though I were there, or should have been there although I wasn't but somewhere along the line... I swear I was perhaps in another form or state of mind? You wrote this very well , depicting what was and I am sure will never again be duplicated. and I loved Hendrix's version of The Star Spangled Banner....  yesterday is gone tomorrow doesn't exist [This message has been edited by Gentle Spirit (08-24-2005 08:27 PM).] |
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