Living at a loss?
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...