In my truck tonight I got a flash of that hippie energy of long ago. I was standing in my truck cab, standing is an option looking towards the North when a young woman across the street looked in and I said hi and just like that she said hi back. That was it, that was that flash from the past in the present. That energy exchange lasted me several hours, it rekindled my spirit. I was thinking it would be nice if she would walk by once in a while and we could say hi. It is such a great feeling with nothing else attached, just an acknowledgment of being a friendly human being.
This topic is coming up because I made a comment on Oregon or Portland for safe a safe return to campus on Face Book Group in response to someones comments. Someone made a comment the topic which is CRT which stands for Critical Race Theory and they don't want it t about is drug many take in the book Brave New World author Aldous Huxley that I read maybe when I was 12-16 in my reading addiction before I got into the other drugs. Right around that time. Took my first LSD in 1965s when I was 15. Took quite a bit back then and even have a memory of a capping party in the Haight. I don't know iif it is a real memory or just an illusion. People wearing over the ear and in the ear headphones while out in public are the new turn on, tune in and drop out generations. They are so addicted to that form of having it whenever they are out, they can ignore the rest of us easily and do. It almost like a slap in the face for those of us who want to engage on a up front and personal level as little as saying hi while passing on the street. That was part of what was so refreshing about the energy with the woman who said hi when I said hi, we both present and that is important to me.
