So here we are, my husband and I, on our way to the Summer of Love/40 celebration in Golden Gate Park. None of our seven kids or seven grandkids wanted to go.
We drove in from the Central Valley, where we currently live/work, in a $25k vehicle with built in iPod dock (god, we hate living in Red California, but we need to make more money than we spend, and it isn't easy on the Peninsula)...
Stayed at a Palo Alto Hotel with koi pond outside the room (Palo Alto is home turf and they take our dog at the Sheraton)(Go Ducks)...
Had room service and watched "Meet the Press" (god, I hate Mary Matalin)...
Dressed in our tie-dyes (this is what we wear all the time, we haven't changed)...
Brushed out our (graying) afros and put on sunscreen (flower children do NOT want brown spots on their faces)...
And headed for Speedway Meadows!
We are still young Hippies at heart. It's dismaying to pass a mirror and see a person who is almost 60. We lived on communes, dammit! We're the Woodstock generation.
Truth be told, we would move back to a commune in a heartbeat, as long as it had high-speed internet. My back is a little stiff to live in a tee-pee, but a nice redwood house would be fine. I used to milk a cow, bake bread and make everything from scratch anyway. I'd have no problem doing it again. Except we still have student loans to pay off.
We have an Obama sticker on our car, and we would welcome Edwards, too. Don't like Hillary at all, but will vote for her if needs be.
I want us out of Iraq now. I don't give a rat's ass about the "chaos" to follow. It's all GWB's fault; he can go finish the job himself after January 2009.
We have donated thousands to Dem races all over the U.S. and we look forward to the 2008 election. I want Dems to pick up as many seats as possible, as well as the White House. It must happen and we are willing to work for it. We will host Dem house parties in the Central Valley, in our gated community with lakes and golf courses....
Anyway, I will post more after the party. Peace and Love, my brothers and sisters! The revolution will not be televised (it will be blogged).