HI! I'm a newbie! Peace, Love, Groovey, What's Your Sign, Spare Change?

Hello, to all you old hippies out there! I hit the tail end of the hippie movement, and was teenager when I started to adopt the hippie lifestyle.
I will make a list and you all can determine if I was a true hippie or not.

1) My first introduction to hippiehood was dropping acid at the age 14.
2) But it wasn't until my brother was sent to Vietnam, I really began to change.
3) Soon after I got rid of the makeup, started wearing hiking boots, wore old holie patched & embroidered jeans, macramade belts & old flannel shirts (goodwill).
4) I quit shaving my armpits & legs, but because of my Native American heritage I didn't grow much hair anyway. This was devastating to me.
5) Stopped wearing a bra.
6) Hung out in hippie parks.
7) I sold "Willamette Bridges" & pan handeled in downtown Portland.
8) Began eating & drinking natural foods such as, soy bean patties, goats milk & sprouts.
9) Hitch hiked when hitch hiking was fairly safe.
10) Actually slept in "Goodwill" box & an abandoned house several times, and was homeless but didn't know it.
(basically I came home from high school one day and my folks moved)
11) Began Protesting the Vietnam War.
12) Helped to burn efigy of Nixon outside his hotel in downtown Portland.
"Tin soldiers & Nixon's coming were're finally on our own, this summer I hear the drumming four dead in Ohio!"
13) Attended rallies such as, "Invasion of Laos" & "Free Angela Davis & All Political Prisoners!" POWER TO THE PEOPLE!
14) Lived in an old house with 7 other hippies and 7 dogs!
15) Drank electric wine & dropped a lot more acid.
16) Help to sneek approx. 25 -30 people in to Led Zepplin concert.
17) Listen to the Fireside Theater, Frank Zappa, & all the classic ROCK of that time.
18) I was extremely affected by the movies, "Joe" & "Billyjack".
19) Read "Johnathan Livingston Segal", "Sidhartha", "Hobbit" & Electric Koolaid Acid Test"
20) Wore petulie oil (please excuse my spelling)
21) Attended "Bull Frog" 1 & 2, & Satsup in WA.
22) Wrote poems and painted anti-war images on house walls.

Do I qualify?
Anyway, so much more to share & I look forward to learning more here.

Thanks for this forum!
Rjchinook

 

welcome home your life sounds like mine . we must have went to different schools together . you are a hippie today ,yesterday ,&tomorow.firesigns one of my favs and billy jack is the best movies ever made . welcome ! welcome !!!!!!!

 

Good to be here! I just paid a year membership & I'm still trying to figure things out here. I've enjoyed reading the posts, a lot of caring & intelligent people here both young & a little older

Rockyj