North of 49

Ah the summer of love! Of course I was born as the Hippies were integrating back into society disguised as work a day types who were raising kids and from a viral ascent the "hippy" hit it's apex and in a glorious shower of its own comet tail "the movement" came falling back to earth. It was for good reason, it became increasingly obvious that the ideals of the hippy could only be fully sustained by the grace of the establishment that they rebuffed and very cheap drugs such as LSD and marijuana. A strong minded person would see, after child number two was on the way, that kids preferred food to pot so Daddy was off to work and part of the system. I am not being cynical I'm just using a silly narrative. Truly I know people who lived the life of the hippy, I'm even old enough to say I had met the last of the true hobos down in a Calgary train yard and what I have seen is that the reformed or modified hippy would have a liberal attitude and a natural a...

So this yet another piece of thread that unwound (funny how the word wound can mean 2 things with a totally different sound, see another thought off of a thought which came from.............come to think this body of mine was created from a thought.....oh crap!) You can see why it takes so long to make a post sometimes!  It is the way my thought process goes its like my thoughts are not arranged in a well ordered grid, I'm not methodical. My thoughts if charted would look  like a winding (another one of "those" words) boulevard snaking through the streets and avenues of information sometimes connecting to neighboring sections sometimes forming an overpass from one neighborhood to another going over yet others that are irrelevant to my apparent destination. OK! Back to the original post. We are so used to Money . The whole concept of currency is unquestioned by most and thought about by very few. We tend to believe that it's what makes the world go around...