We were gonna change the world...what happened?

Sloth Outta Here...

 

good advice voided, look within yourself, be the best person you can, don't lie to a loved one or a friend/be honest, don't pollute, work for world peace (no matter how bad it really is), treat yourself and other's with respect, love your higher power, oh ya and follow the golden rule

 

HAHA Sloth I cook them alot of different ways.
Alot of the time it comes down to what I happen to have to flavor them up with.
I love black beans. Ilove black bean soup too.
When I serve it I put a spoon of sour cream and chopped green onion on top.
Alot of times I cook them with a bit of ham or kielbasa.
And sometimes chicken.
In the summer I use what I can out of the garden fresh. I plant tomatillo's and use them with celery,onion.peppers (all kinds) and garlic for a base. Add cut chicken and let that cook covered ,then add my cooked beans. Pinto's, black,or red.
Then serve over rice. We only eat brown rice.
I love red beans and rice also. And we eat that with tomatoes,onion garlic and broth. I like to use ham or sausage in it.

I also like bean soup...navy or pinto. Pinto beans over rice with grated cheddar is something I can eat 3-4 times a week. Larry likes more of a variety but that with some corn bread and I am in gastromic heaven....

 

Mmmm..I just ate dinner, and I want to eat again, Teepi!

 

SUS!!!
So happy to see you!!!

HAHA we just ate too...no beans tonight.
Braised chicken with a ton of garlic.
Onions.carrots and red potatoes with a wine gravy.
Homemade buttermilk/flax bread.
I drank wine...apple we mage this summer and Larry had tea.
Pumpkin pie for dessert.

I just love to cook....a blessing and a curse..hahhahaha

 

Oh dear...I'm becoming faint... I'm immediately heading north; do you have any leftovers???

 

Godd morning teepie,
I am for sure coming over to eat...lol
I read my husband your post,he said yep~
She's Cuban~Nice!
So far I like everything about you as a person~
Love how you incorperate your cooking,painting,and gadning skills
to reflect who you are and where you are coming from on this mb~
A lovely lady and a nice friend to have~
P.S. My husband and I enjoy each and every painting you post for us~
Gabba Gabba Hey~

Hey Steve~
Be careful,you are making me jelouse~
I cook good too babe~
I guess me and teepie will have to share you~
LMAO and only joking around for some light hearted fun~

 

Are you sure that this might not be the BEST solution? Thousands of lives lost to this war, in this picture only one would die - not bad, not bad.

I was about 9 when I went door to door getting signatures on a petition to halt the deportation of John Lennon. I was there in the 70's peace movement. I walked out of my classroom with all of my classmates and we sat in silence on the front lawn of the school in protest of the war. We thought we were so cool. We wore love beads and painted flowers on our cheeks and believed in all these infantile concepts that were idealistic and pretty and fairy-tale-like. But, all these years later I look back and realize how ignorant and naive we were. Overconfident. We believed so strongly in peace and love and freedom all being able to exist side by side and felt that if we waited and chanted and sang long enough, loud enough and strong enough, someone would listen and the rest of the world would catch on. We were overconfident but it worked.

The next time you see the news reports of the war in Iraq, notice that the women soldiers are right there next to their male counterparts. We wanted to be equal (women) and we're damn close. We've helped to open up all those doors for women. A woman can be a doctor, a lawyer, an astronaught, a high ranking polititian. WE DID THAT, KIDDIES! We helped that cause along - yes - the hippies along with the blacks and the space aliens and anyone else who wanted to follow along. It was very hip to have a "cause." It was like, all of a sudden we realized that we were the same and that no one color of the rainbow was any more brilliant than any other and yet, that's what was all around us - separation - we wanted to come together and we did.

The results of our actions have dominoed slowly over the years. The sexual revolution, the make love not war mentality, don't even know you're name but I think you're cute so let's make love, gave us VD, Aids, children who didn't know who their fathers were, babies named Moonbeam and Sunshine who had to live with that for the rest of their lives. Overconfident. We loved the name Moonbeam, why would we think that Junior wouldn't be happy with it?

The 60's was great but we've grown up and hopefully we've learned something. But we're still waiting for someone else to start the movement. One day it will happen and hopefully the kids of today will be a little smarter than we were and a little less stoned.

Drugs. There arn't many that I didn't do, there arn't many that I did that I didn't abuse and that didn't abuse me! They were just man-made chemical solutions to problems we didn't even want to admit we had! Why do people take drugs? To feel better. Why do people need to feel better? There's a question to look at. What's wrong with us that we need to feel better? The only drug I believe in is mother earth's drug - pot. Man didn't have mix it or chemically change it or whatever. Pot alone is the Creator's little gift to us. The rest of it is garbage, absolute poison. But when was the last time you heard of someone dropping down dead from smoking weed?

The power of peace is not in the white house, it's in you. It's in me. It's in the guy living next door and the lady working at the desk next to you. The 60's taught us how to swim, we tried it out in the 70's and nearly drowned, the 80's were placid as well as the 90's. The turn of the century has come and gone. We know how to swim...so let's jump in. Why don't we just do it?

Simplistic solutions don't exist. Once we chanted peacefully "Give Peace A Chance." Now, we must DEMAND that we Give Peace A Try.

September 21, 2006 - National Peace Day

We need to use our minds, our spirits and focus on forward-looking and figure out what to do and what exactly to peacefully yet loudly demand. Let's not make the same mistakes we made when we were kids and certainly, let's not lead today's kids down this same old road, although it was pleasant and fun and crazy, we could have accomplished so much more than we did. Overconfident.

We need to be leaders, all of us, young, old, rich and poor. Let's take back our country. We've got our hands full right here on U.S. soil sorting out the war mongers. Then, when we've conquored that we can move on to the rest of the world. It's easy to sit in front of your computer and type cute little posts but what YOU need to do is to take action.

We need something to focus on. Not the definition of hippy or whether they bathed or did drugs and had crazy sex but focus on what YOU'RE GONNA DO today, tomorrow, on September 21, 2006. It's time to work together and give the power back to the people only this time, let's use that power a little more wisely, shall we? But let's not forget to be overconfident. It works. If you live a peace filled life full of love and compassion and allow everyone to live their own lives as they please as long as it does'nt hurt anyone else - it will catch on.
Give Peace A Try

 

"Are you sure that this might not be the BEST solution?"

Guns are never a solution. I'd be willing to change my mind if I thought the outcome of Sick Georges offer in the picture could lead to an end to the fighting. Unfortunately the hate in the Middle East is passed to the children. Thereby continuing the madness there ad infinitum. Too bad Jerusalem can't be turned into a world owned city.

As for our own madness, the President fails to see and confront the truth about the war in Iraq. He refuses to acknowledge that the Iraq war has nothing to do with the 9/11 attack on our country by al Qaeda, and it has diverted us from our appropriate response to that attack which was to go into Afghanistan and hunt Osama Bin Laden. He refuses to acknowledge the fact that our long term presence in Iraq is fueling the very insurgency that the President vows to end. He refuses to acknowledge that any mistakes were made and that this war was based on false pretenses. He ignores the tremendous financial burden on our citizens, and he completely ignores the thousands of wounded that need to hear that they will not be forgotten and that they will receive the care they need. Finally, the President even refuses to acknowledge that Iraqi government officials believe that we can withdraw within a two-year time frame, and he continues to demean those members of Congress who disagree with him.

What an arrogant asshole. I wouldn't mind seeing him duel it out with Sodamn Insane though, in the hopes that Hussein could get off a quick shot.

Oh and all that moonbeam sunflower stuff? You forgot Grace and Paul's baby, God. Aside from that, nice post.

Love like you've never been hurt,
and dance like you do when nobody's watching

 

Sloth Outta Here...

 

The best answer to this question is answered with the obvious.
Way too many of us (Including myself) spent way too much time getting high!



If our lives at the time would have been centered around social reform only; lots more stuff would have been changed for the better.



Sadly……..our lives at the time (at least mine) were centered around drugs, alcohol, parties, & music. People high on drugs generally don’t get a lot of productive stuff done.



We made our choices, now we all gotta live with the outcome.

 

Sloth Outta Here...

 

Invited, am I? Well, well, well, I could never turn down an invitation to good, positive, inspirational and educational conversations any more than I could turn down an invitation to a party. I'll stop by and introduce myself but I'm warning you I'm a optimistic radical with pacifistic tendencies who occassionally likes to bitch and moan and comes up with all kinds of solutions but the implementation of these ideas sometimes elude me. Am I still invited?

 

Sloth Outta Here...

 

Good Morning Everyone.. I hope you are all keeping warm (burrrr it's cold in texas). We have the fire blazing and had hot chocolate with marshmallows. UMMmmmm..

Welcome to The Garden Hippie Chick, I hope you find a place here with our ever growing family.
Brightest Blessing
sh

 

Hey Sloth!

Listen man........I'm not saying we didn't make a mark.
I'm just saying we could have done much more if we just kept away from the stuff.

Then again........If it wasn't for the stuff it wouldn't have been as much fun!

I'm just happy I made noise when I felt things weren't right. I really believe people had to listen when we yelled, there were so many of us!

I really miss the days when I did as I pleased. Not like that now. Responsibility sucks! What really get's to me is that the same system I spent SO much time complaining about I got sucked into anyway. Oh well..........I fought the good fight as long as I could. Hangovers hurt a lot more today. I don't even want to talk about the other stuff. It's a killer today.

Never had any kids. I always said I would never bring another child into this world & I never did. Sometimes I wish I would have. Too late now........the old lady isn't popping any more eggs & I don't have the stamina I use ta.

 

3 words for ya old sweetie....Horny Goat Weed.....I have an excellent source if ya's interested....

 

Sloth Outta Here...

 

Teepi
Horny Goat weed?
What the flip flying is that?

Sloth
Growing up for me came reeeaaaal slow. I had to come to believe in a life within the same system that I fought tooth & nail against for quite a few years. If I would of been thinking at the time I would of been in school learning something that gave me a position within the system to really make changes.

Sometimes I feel like going back to my old friends and leaning against them for comfort and support. Problem is.........they only offer temporary relief for the things I really need to change within me. All in all it's been a good life so far. Besides.........who knows what wonderful stuff this old life has in store for me tomorrow. Sorry........got a little flippy there..........I run off like that sometimes. :&

Really though.........I make changes in the system today by trying to help others make changes within themselves. People with great minds very often wind up running ragged because they just can't make any sense out of the world they live in. Lot's of em wind up dead because it's easier than pushing. All in all I've found lot's of people on this rock are cool as hell!
So is life.......if I choose to allow it to be.

 

Good word to heal by Old Hippie, Welcome to the Garden.

Every thing is frozen out side.. it looks crystaline, like a ice feairy castle in the land of frozen delites.
The ice makes it hard for the Cardinals to hold onto the Cammilia bush that threy love to twitter about in and the pink and red Cammilias frozen in time sparkling in their icey prison.. If fact I see no brids at the feeder at all, their little wing fearthers must be froze shut. The Donkey did not bray his mornin' greating to us this morning. He must be too confused by the cold white stuff all around.
With the seasons comes change. Change for all living things. Change is a constant and with it comes hope for a brighter tomorrow.
Blessed Be
sh