San Francisco yesterday AND today.
IN A TRIP
OF HIPPIES A RISE OF MINI SKIRTS
dares you
to put a new beat in your life with Santana the Carpenters, and Young Bloods who see themselves in a 5th
Dtmension all Blood,
Sweat and Tears of
the musical world.
LOVELY
GIRLS WITH LONG SHINY HAIR
alongside
the boys, they march, right on, to change the world and establish colorful new meaning
for old words: hip, cool, bread, mini, bad.
SOME
PEOPLE DIET WHILE OTHERS STARVE
we walk on
the moon while on earth help to the needy is curtailed for "lack of
funds." And Vice-president Spiro Agnew's infamous term in office makes us
realize, next time we vote we must by-pass the candidate with unusual
vocabulary for the one with good morals and integrity.
MORE POWER
TO THE PEOPLE. WHAT IF GOD IS BLACK?
memories
of Camelot make us immensely proud, unconsolably sad. And a 20 year old speaks
for all idealists, eradicates the "generation gap," when in
confidence of being perfectly understood tells us: Sometimes, I wake up in the
morning wishing it was all a bad dream and the Kennedy brothers were not really
dead.
DISCONTENTED
CHILDREN IN THE MIDST OF PLENTY ...
the public
high school disembowels children entrusted to its system, as illiterate,
uncaring young adults. And to the parents who want to find out WHY? comes the
realization that the maladies that afflict their sons and daughters has no name
no face, no address, no phone number. And prevails in the tired faces of the
school counselor, the young teacher and the principle who to justify their
position produces a document full of digits. Statistics don't answer any
questions, only make fear grip at your heart and impairs communication, after
all points of contact have been exhausted but no answer has been found. Yet, in
spite of, not because of the system, the young often triumph. They march on to
make their dreams come true.
SAY IT
WITH FLOWERS
urges a
popular slogan but in the latest build shopping center a metal tree spreads its
arms to the sky. You moan, wishing for green blue grass, velvety moss, real
life flowers. Progress is extinguishing us from the face of the earth.
Leaving——as proof of having inhabited this planet——our souls, imbedded in the
concrete, glass and steel buildings.
YOUTH FOR
PEACE. ECOLOGY DAY
you read
in your local news paper. And, war is not healthy for children and other living
things. Invigorating solutions for long ignored problems come in headlines: Smith
Town Citizens revive their river. Concerned voters aided by 200 High Schoolers
clean Sunshine,USA. Then
hope rushes through you once more. Elation, as you read on and find a
Commencement Day Speech of a local High Schooler that answers the vice
president's bad opinion of the young people of the United States with beautiful
and heartfelt words: We are not "a corps of impudent snobs" we are
your children, you are not "the establishment,” you are our parents. Open
your hearts, we promise not to close ours. Peace.
NOTICE:San Francisco hasn't changed at all,do U think?
