really nostalgic
Feb. 20th, 2002 05:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pywacketFound a picture of one of my favorite bars in Fayetteville
http://www.georgesmajesticlounge.com/pages/panoramic.htm
it's now run by a friend of mine...someone I hung out with for years. Looking through the pictures on the site, I was struck by
1)how clean cut a lot of people were
2)the ones who weren't were hippies
3) we've grown up...some of us are actually um...old now.
I swear there weren't that many hippies when I lived there. Oh there were a lot, and actually they were some of the coolest folk around--not like the fake hippies or yuppie hippies or strident hippies I came across in SF and Berkeley--but real people who lived by their principles. Hell, my best friend Amy was pretty much one herself. Guess we were all just freaks then. And what the hell am I talking about...I do ren faire (or I will again soon and did for a long time) and that's pretty damn hippy. Heck I'm listening to steeleye span.
I found some of my other old friends online and sent some emails...Folks I haven't talked to in a while, others I'm just curious about.
I'm having bouts of this off and on. I'm happy in Chicago. Heck I was pretty happy in SF, all but that last few years (and still happy with parts and people--just not the city). I'm wanting a smaller quieter life with a yard and Fall Festivals and friends playing guitar in the living room and kids running around. And it's not likely I'll have that--something approximating, but not that, because I'm not sure that exists anymore. And the me that used to be a part of that life doesn't either, or really deep down. I've been tired, so tired for a few years. I'm hoping that will lift and my creativity will return, my drive. Of course I'll have my hands full in the next while and I'm good for that--but I'd like to rediscover the person in me that made things happen, that had a drive to accomplish creative acts.
http://www.georgesmajesticlounge.com/pages/panoramic.htm
it's now run by a friend of mine...someone I hung out with for years. Looking through the pictures on the site, I was struck by
1)how clean cut a lot of people were
2)the ones who weren't were hippies
3) we've grown up...some of us are actually um...old now.
I swear there weren't that many hippies when I lived there. Oh there were a lot, and actually they were some of the coolest folk around--not like the fake hippies or yuppie hippies or strident hippies I came across in SF and Berkeley--but real people who lived by their principles. Hell, my best friend Amy was pretty much one herself. Guess we were all just freaks then. And what the hell am I talking about...I do ren faire (or I will again soon and did for a long time) and that's pretty damn hippy. Heck I'm listening to steeleye span.
I found some of my other old friends online and sent some emails...Folks I haven't talked to in a while, others I'm just curious about.
I'm having bouts of this off and on. I'm happy in Chicago. Heck I was pretty happy in SF, all but that last few years (and still happy with parts and people--just not the city). I'm wanting a smaller quieter life with a yard and Fall Festivals and friends playing guitar in the living room and kids running around. And it's not likely I'll have that--something approximating, but not that, because I'm not sure that exists anymore. And the me that used to be a part of that life doesn't either, or really deep down. I've been tired, so tired for a few years. I'm hoping that will lift and my creativity will return, my drive. Of course I'll have my hands full in the next while and I'm good for that--but I'd like to rediscover the person in me that made things happen, that had a drive to accomplish creative acts.
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Date: 2002-02-20 05:49 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2002-02-20 08:47 pm (UTC)I'm just not sure small town kinda things happen anymore...or happen where I can find them. Heck even Fayetteville is a 'big' town now. I'm thinking we'll find some approximation, but wondering if what I'm longing for is only in my memory.
Guess we'll know about that in a couple of years.
and excuse me YOU in a relationship with a GUY? never happen!! :-)
Wow...
Date: 2002-02-20 07:41 pm (UTC)Fake hippies/strident hippies. Oh yes -- we'll have LOTS to talk about tomorrow.
Can't wait to meet you.
Steeleye Span. Good stuff. I've been on a real Linda Thompson kick lately myself.