Dave, that dessert is outstanding! Joe, for a moment I thought I read "hash brownies" and did a quick double-take. I love Wednesday since its my comp day for working Saturdays. Cloudy here all day. Might have rain tonight but temps are mild.
@Lara Moss , @Ruby Begonia , Hmmmm!!! Seems there might be a few more hippies around than I thought. Did you ladies wear flowers in your hair too?
Yes, Ina. I was moderate though, never went overboard. I liked brownies though if ya know what I mean.
I wore daisies in my long straight hair, beads and bangles, and attended a Peace Rally in DC but that's about it Ina. No drugs for me. I missed out on that fun lol. I do have some hippy memorabilia from that era though.
@Lara Moss , I was in Boston, Mass. in '69 and '70, so I too was in a few demonstrations as well. I was lucky never to have been arrested. Remember sit-ins? @Ruby Begonia , Althought I was considered a hippy, eventually most ended up and still do call me an earth mother. My first name even means mother/female. I studied Horticulture for three years. Can you guess what plant was the most fun? I had the coolest teacher.
Ina I am truly impressed! 3 years of horticulture, I wish I had done that. There was a time long ago that I wanted to be a landscape designer and thought after my son got older I'd begin some courses. Funny how life gets in the way.
@Ruby Begonia , My father took me out of school when I was 10, and in the fifth grade. I finally got to go back when I was 35, and a grandmother of a three and two year old. After taking academics for two years, I finally got to study Horticulture. That was the my first subject of choice to studied, and I kept on studing different subjects for 19 years. I loved it so much that I never took less than three courses, and I went summers too. People would ask me how I cound work fulltime, raised my children and grandchildren, much less how could I stand school. Well it is easy when those are the things you want out of life. So it is never to late.
Ina, I wish you could talk to some of my clients. You would inspire them with your attitude. Earth mother, yes, but I would also call you a healer. Namaste.
@Sacheen BrightEagle , My Indian grandmother use to clasp her hands and nod her head, but I never knew what that was called. It was a blessing when she did it. I think she would have like the taste of that word Namaste. Words have color for me. When I was young, and I told my father about the color of words, hr decided it was the devil showing in me. Now there is a word for this. I think it starts with a S.
@Sacheen BrightEagle , I studied Phycology for three years as well. I needed to help myself accept my first sons murder, and I couldn't afford the cost of counseling at the time, so I study it. It help immensely.
Ina, I have never heard words being referred to as having colour. It has caught my imagination. I can feel the inside prickle of the beginning of a new poem. Thank you. I also appreciate hearing of your grandmother's secret blessing. Every spring my Welsh grandmother spread fresh herbs she had grown indoors over the newly dug earth of our garden, then whispered a blessing in Welsh. All she would tell me was, she was reminding the earth to smile. At her suggestion, I held the warm earth in my little hands, and asked it for the gift of green. I feel an affinity with plants, most will grow for me if I ask.
Ina, I am so pleased studying psychology has helped you. For myself, understanding something makes it easier to accept it. Acceptance makes me feel less helpless. I don't do helpless well.
Sacheen, my favorite colors are different shades of green. For me it means life and grow. When I hear words, they each have colors, and a persons emotions can dull or intensify the colors. And for me different people respresent different colors. Yvonne has pink and purple colors as her general rule all colors. Music is a blending of colors. Oh I remember the word for my condition, it is synesthesia.