>Far-out :o)

Just realized that particular chapter was written almost exactly 20 years ago. <s>

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>>>In those years my family had a little band. We used to get together with friends at our house and play all that old music (that and a lot of blues and jazz). (That was in my Boulder, CO new age religion, vegetarian, no sugar, health nut phase)
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>>Not sure if the rest of the book would be your cup of herbal tea, but you might enjoy this http://headhunterjazz.com/hippies.htm
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>>I thought that was normal until I realized that none of my friends my age were doing the same thing. I went through the guitar, flute, piano, and kalimba phase :o) I switched from the guitar to mostly piano when every finger on my left hand had calluses and I couldn't have long fingernails :o) The one thing I did do when I became a parent was make sure my daughter took piano lessons so she could read music. She went through the piano and violin phase and then became a teen and it was all mp3 and then ipod after that :o)
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>>>The cool thing is when a new friend of hers comes over (one that doesn't know we play music) we will play a duet on the piano for them. They always get a kick out of that. It apparently doesn't embarrass my daughter because she is usually the one to ask (surprising since everything I do seems to embarrass her now) :o)
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>>>Does anyone remember the macrame wall hanging days? I probably made a hundred of those things... That and batik and decoupage... gee, maybe we were hippies... but we drank mostly (if not only) herbal tea...
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>>>>>It's been a LOT of years since I've heard Don Quixote... :o)
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>>>>And a lot of years since I've played it. ( calluses gone - piano doesn't like them ) But now the guitar is out and it wants to play Jim Croce and I fear before the day is over I'll be into the Leonard Cohen Songbook ...
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>>>>>>>I guess you weren't a big fan of the movie Jonathon Livingston Seagull then? I read the book probably 10 times before the movie came out. I thought Neil Diamond was the bomb back then. We all thought his writing was more conciously aware - sheesh, that was the 70s afterall. I listened to too much Gordon Lightfoot.
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>>>>>>Reaching for his saddlebag
>>>>>>He takes a rusty sword into his hand
>>>>>>Then striking up a knightly pose
>>>>>>He shouts across the ocean to the shore
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>>>>>>See the wise and wicked ones
>>>>>>Who feed upon lifes sacred fire
>>>>>>See the soldier with his gun
>>>>>>Who must be dead to be admired
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>>>>>>(oh God, now I have to go find my guitar ... )
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>>>>>>>>>>>Now you've gone and done it. The only way I got this song out of my head was to replace it "OOO OOO OOO Looking out my back door"
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>>>>>>>>>>Dangerous territory for those of us of a certain age and geographic location circa early 70s. Memories of elephants ...
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>>>>>>>>>( and now I can't get Yellow River and Cracklin' Rose out of *my* head )
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>>>>>>>>Ok. That does it! From the guy who quoted "Do You Hear the People Sing", we now get "Cracklin' Rosie"????? Jeez. Man, I'm beginning to think you alone were separated at birth. The mere idea of Neil Diamond makes me want to run and hide. Big fan too of I Am, I Said? Stupidest song ever written... well, ok, maybe not counting MacArthur Park.