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Remington Stevenson's avatar

Beautiful piece! The last few sentences really drove it home for me.

The phrase I found myself saying in my head (after finishing the piece) was “Do what you want to do. And stay present.” I’ve found that the two phases you touch on (“hoe phase”, celebrate era) are both imperfect remedies for trying to control my life and circumstances without the discomfort of simply Staying Present and Trusting Myself. I’m curious if our desire to label ourselves and what “era” we’re in stems from a desire to gain some level of certainty/direction for the near future

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nick's avatar

Really good. It's been years since I've read it but I think there's some excellent retrospective oral history of the free love movement in England from the mouths of the women in it published in Jonathon Green's "Days In The Life: Voices from the English Underground 1961-1971"

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