03-13-2020, 05:02 AM
(03-12-2020, 07:38 AM)beechnut79 Wrote: That song, (Gentle on my Mind), although not really thought of that way, was popular smack-dab in the middle of the hippie era when free-spiritism was very much in vogue. Sometimes I think we could usu a little more of that today. Am now in my 70s and still would like as little responsibility as possible. Depressed that most of the bills never seem to go away. Probably won’t be able to retire until death, even though I never had substance abuse issues.
Yes, it was more the norm to be a free spirit during the last awakening. It went with the times. When you were young, a member of a band (such as those who wrote the song) and had not yet put down roots, it was easier. Boomers have sunk roots since, generally. I sympathize with the seeming ugliness of some of those roots. Persistent buggers, no?
That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.