Where Have All the Flowers Gone? |
Tuesday Aug 11 2009
By Jim Selman | BioThis week is the 40th anniversary of Woodstock. Can you believe it? It seems not so long ago that we were all about “peace, love and music”—a generation that was going to change the world. And in many ways we did! In CBS’s Sunday Morning retrospective on Woodstock, the theme came through that the ‘spirit’ of that memorable event lives on in our children at outdoor rock concerts across the land. Historians, of course, work hard to understand and explain what happened there and why. But at the end of the day, it was just a ‘happening’—an unexpected and largely unplanned convergence of human beings celebrating life and the possibility of a better world.
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Written by eldering at Wisdom in Action
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