Hippies is FREE this week on Amazon (Kindle).
Go on. Do it. Release your inner hippie.
Click the cover below to link through. (Read some excerpts below that.)
So get your copy now. Or if you have a copy, gift a copy or two to friends. Just tell them to be polite and write a brief and honest Amazon review in return for the freebie 🙂
Excerpts
Magic mushroom head shop and dry cleaners
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shakemyheadhollow 
Official hippy here, love, peace, the whole thing for at least 50 years or more
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That’s pretty official, Michael! I’m not too far behind. I can claim 50 years, too, if I can count being a little kid watching Woodstock live on the news, secretly cheering for the hippies while my grandma cursed at the TV. Anyway, a few years later, when I hit 17, I was off on the first of many cross-country hitchhiking trips. Now I’m back at it, having hitchhiked 12 countries since turning 60 (most recently Mexico, as you may have noticed via my “hitchhiking” blog posts).
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The hippies free
in the past
are now maybe
a little conservative!?
What a blast!
🤔
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Maybe. But you might like the clarifying light cast on this issue by my fine blog entry on the topic 🙂 , “Did 1960s liberarls become today’s conservatives?”: https://shakemyheadhollow.wordpress.com/2017/12/17/did-1960s-liberals-become-todays-conservatives/
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I heard that from a couple of students talking about their parents. And a neighbor or two!
I did include a ???
Do 1960s liberals become conservations? Yes! Quiet a few!
Not me!
No set worldview or politics for me!
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Another anecdote that tells a different tale. Back in the corporate office, before I quit to go vagabonding (12 countries hitchhiked since turning 60), I recall some of us who grew up in the 1970s laughing about our old pot and LSD days, and the junior engineer who came up in the DARE era was aghast. There we were, sandwiched between our parents’ generation and a younger generation, both a little mortified at our prodigal hippie freedoms 🙂 . Also, some of my young progressive friends think that old 60s hippies who spurn wokeness have therefore gone conservative. Not so. Lots of us just think the woke Left has turned back to the right, mimicking the old conservative authoritarianism, cultural policing, etc. It’s the young wokers who think they are being liberals who are too conservative for us old hippies! Three cheers for your resistance to fixed world views and politics! https://shakemyheadhollow.wordpress.com/2018/05/25/buckling-and-curling-in-the-us-political-spectrum/
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And you are not buckling and curling in your own political spectrum!?
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No. Writhing maybe, but no buckling and no curling 🙂
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whatever…
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I got my copy! 😉
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Gracias, amigo! Drop a brief review on Amazon if u get a chance.
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Always do. 😉
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🙂
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Long long ago in Puerto Vallarta, Alan and Jano Watts and my former wife and I were guests in an elaborate house overlooking the Bahia de Banderas – one day Alan sent word to the village (and it was a village then, long before the jet port came) that a group of young people staying there was welcome to come by on Sunday for a visit. Come Sunday, the visit featured a fully-robed Alan conducting a Japanese tea ceremony, followed by an “American tea ceremony,” as Alan put it, with all of us stoned.
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Wow! Quite a tale to tell! That comment alone makes good on the title of this blog entry – a “memorable fancy” worthy of Blake himself. Well, I never had tea with Alan Watts, but at least I can say that I recently hitchhiked across three states in Mexico, including a stop in San Miguel de Allende, where Neal Cassady died beside the railroad tracks. That’s as close as I can come. Call it post-publication research for my”Hippies” novel 😊
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You’re brave, hiking in Mexico now – in past years, it was a pretty safe place – moreso than the USA, sometimes.
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Hi Terence. Having hitchhiked both the USA and Mexico in the past couple of years (and 50,000 US miles in the 1970s-90s), my limited recent experience is that the bad parts of Mexico are very bad, with large swatches that are safer than the US.
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