Hi, I am new here so allow me to introduce myself. My name is Cliff, 57 years young, and a country boy at heart. Hail from the Adirondack Mountains in NY and currently live at the Jersey Shore. I am married 32 years, two children, two grandchildren and one on the way. I was born in the 50s, raised in the 60s, lived through the 70s, and survived after that. I miss fresh mountain air, communing with nature and living free with her as well. I am a part of nature and nature is a part of me, no matter where I am at. Over the years of so called civilized living, I have become desensitized with my grass roots and long to get back to the basics when free love, peace, harmony, and fellowship with like minded people. I lived in the "Hippie era" and enjoyed every minute of it. Met and lived with many hippie friends and events that will stay in my heart and mind forever. I miss the good old days and enjoy chatting with people who have shared the same experiences as I did. Would love to find and become a lifelong member of a hippie commune again to finish out my golden years with. It appears these are far a few between places though and some I have researched have become to "modernized" and corrupted by society. Places like this I have visited and lived in before did not care about the politics of the world, money was not a priority, and true fellowship with each other and nature were paramount. Living off the land and giving back that which she provided us was the ideals. Civilization and society has poisoned, corrupted, and endangered our brothers and sisters of our time and places like this helps us to reflect and revisit memories of a long gone quality of life. Even if we cannot find the fellowship we grew up with, we can take a dream trip back through memory lane and get back some of our pride and dignity we shared in a better part of our lives.
Hi Cliff, I was born a little late for the hippie era but my step dad lived through it like you did. We milk cows for a living and am still very close to the land and living a pure and simple life. Here is something he wrote that I think you might enjoy; I started out being a hippie and I guess I still am one cuz there's no way that I know of to stop being one. You can become other things but if you really lived the hippie life deep down you'll always be a hippie. I'm not saying this is good or bad I'm just saying you walk through life with a certain mind set that you can't hide or shake off. When I was young it was cool to be a hippie, now it's hard to live the hippie life. But it's still better than being straight. Being straight is not a good trip. You start off going to school to learn how to turn your mind over to the control and power freaks. Smoking dope helps to stop this from happening but you still have to figure out how to keep yourself alive without turning your soul over to these assholes. Smoking dope will show you that you have to be free but it will never bring you freedom. Without freedom, before you know it, they'll dress you up in a suit and you'll be knocking at my door trying to sell me life insurance.
Irsis, I can relate to this all to well. I may have conformed to the materialistic, political, poisonous society to survive, but my heart is still true to the way I lived in my younger days. Even though I have aged out from modern societies usefulness I still have a lot in me am not ready to lie down just because society tells me to. Would be nice to find a good old fashioned hippie community to join where we all have something in common. LOL You keep milkin those cows and care for nature. You care for nature, she will take care of you. Blessings.
I am also new here and as "cliffnorthupjr" mentioned in his info like "Adirondack Mountains" just a beautifull place for me to visit::
The Adirondack Mountains... well, compared to actual great, big, rocky mountains, they aren't much, but they will always call to me more. It's beautiful... the mountains, the trees, the valleys carved out with crashing rivers, as a gust of wind sweeps down it and rustles the leaves as if a great wave of green were rising and falling back again to rest in peace and serenity... no, I doubt I could love another place better. I especially love it when the low flying clouds drift through the middle of the valley, rising up gently over the sides sometimes. It gives the mountains such a serene vibe... then, so does blue sky.
Hey cliff, The american dream is over rated. There is an entirely different way of perceiving reality. You know it's there, now you just have to believe in it strongly enough to bring it into existence. Lots of luck
