Well, it's official. At midnight tonight, it will be fifty years since the Sixties started.
I was busy in the Sixties. I studied hard, finished high school and started college. I finished junior college and got married. I guess you could say I got my MRS degree. And I started my family.
The Age of Aquarius was a time of diapers. Long nights of partying were really long nights of comforting a colicky baby. I watched the sun come up with her more times than I care to remember. A song by Donovan became her nickname: Jennifer Juniper. Actually, one of many nicknames she had through the years.....
More kids, more songs, more nicknames. My poor son still gets called Rocket Man. And I have nicknamed his son Goggle Boy......so history does repeat itself, I guess. But then, the names are meant as a form of endearment.
So, I guess I missed the Sixties the first time around. But I did listen to the music. And danced with a baby in the middle of the night. I didn't drop out, or drop acid, but I did have many sleepless nights. And glorious, sunshine-filled days with my little ones....later in the Sixties.
I have heard the saying that, if you remember the Sixties, you weren't really there. And obviously, I wasn't wherever “there” was. But now it's 2010. Maybe I will wear flowers in my hair, and long, flowing dresses, and a peace sign necklace. And listen to Sixties music.
Somebody said you can never go home, and somebody else said you can't take it with you. So, maybe I will just savor the moment and put some sunshine in each and every day this year. The Sixties may have started fifty years ago, but the Here and Now is starting.......here and now.
It's a new dawn, it's a new day, and it's a New Year.....
Wishing you Peace.......and Sunshine!
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