That song “turn turn turn” by the Byrds, the use of the verses from Ecclesiastes, such a profound song. That was actually one of the deepest songs of the 1960’s, with the spiritual underpinning of it. I lived it! Love to you!! Wendy
I always loved that song. I can remember it playing in the house. Plus Ecclesiastes is just a very profound book. I quote verses from it all the time. Much love to you. ox
Thank you again, Deborah. The power of music to offer emotions and capture ideas is so overwhelming at times. Ecclesiastes is a very intense book, kind of mysterious, if Solomon was the author. He, after being King and with power and money and all he could desire in the flesh, now seeing the dark side of only the material realm, as opposed to the Spirit. I have to live for Eternity, this world is not my Home. Bless you, Wendy
I love (and I think it's my tagline somewhere here), "Live for heaven." That's what we are called to do. Eccleasiastes is very intense, like us writers, so perhaps that's why we love it. I've wondered if Solomon was the author and like to believe he was. Hope you're having a peaceful Saturday. We took my mama out for her belated birthday lunch. A blessing. ox
Yep, a good day. Enjoy your family!!! Writers indeed!!! We are nothing if not intense and I am grateful to be in such a great group of amazing writers, as “iron sharpens iron.” Take GOOD care!
‘For we ourselves were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful and hating one another. But when the kindness and the love of God our Savior toward man appeared , not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit, whom He poured out on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior, that having been justified by His grace we should become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.’
Titus 3:3-7 NKJV
I was right there with you, not in San Francisco, but in heart, for a good long while, chasing after the wind in fly over country.
Frogman, thank you! Truly this piece was even more acutely from Holy Spirit, Who is my writing Coach. I love that scripture from Titus, one of my favorites. God is so incredibly merciful to us all. None of us get it right each time but as I say, God wins the race and then gives US the prize ! What a Papa! Godspeed, Wendy
As another "boomer" (not so much used in UK) I am glad our 1960s Prime Minister Harold Wilson told the USA representatives who came to see him in London with a request (an instruction?)to join the Vietnam War,to go do one. He refused to cooperate with the mighty CIA. We know this now due to documents from that era that are archived at our national Public Record Office at Kew becoming available. People used to say that Harold Wilson was paranoid....he wasn't,they really were out to get him! In the mid 1970s in the middle of a very successful leadership he suddenly announced he was standing down,just like that,out of the blue. Some people "in the know" at the time hinted that some nastiness was involved. But wily old Mr Wilson lived the rest of his life in quiet obscurity with his nice wife,a poet,or she wrote poetry which a lot of smartclever people laughed at and made fun of but those sort of people are horrible anyway. It seems that there was a plan to bring him down and disgrace him over some land deal. I don't think there was anything actually illegal but there was scope to represent it as dodgy. But Wilson was a pretty canny operator so they didn't get to do it. I hate the thought of my two fine great-nephews being sent to war,ITS NOT 1914! ITS BLOODY WELL NOT 1914. But I also loathe the thought of being "mobilized" and "evacuated". It seems likely that if they do succeed in fomenting a conflict in Europe,then people like me,non-combatabts will be forced to leave our homes and get bussed to who knows where. Some people (in UK) seem to think it will be just like WW2 of which we have so many cosy images (!),but it won't.
Jane, thank you for the very intense info about Harold Wilson's refusal to join the Vietnam fray, this I did not know. Sometimes the stupidity a d sorrow of human beings is JUST TOO MUCH. WW2 was beyond our comprehension. Britain suffered horribly, as did Europe on all sides. I lost an Uncle from Canada who fell on D-Day and is buried in Normandy . War, the ancient plague of humanity. Hence why I CLING to God and His Son. No other way. Thank you again for responding to my piece and for offering a very deep comment! Blessings to you, Wendy
I’m older than baby boomers… just 80 now. But this is so perfectly said, Wendy… exactly what I’ll say/share with my grandkids. Anyone younger than 30/whatever the fuck gen because I can’t keep them straight! 😂 My heart goes out to you losing your mom and brother so young; finding your way through these awful times. I walked@ SF in barefoot with my toddler by the hand… thinking I could be hippie girl too. But my husband said no … we were grown ups now. my brother came home from Nam amidst riots and hate …he left for OZ and never came back. Our foreigner. My grkids are young adults…. Want to save it all, including democracy. I could not have said it better to them! Thank you so much…can’t wait to read the next lettters. You are a brilliant writer… so glad I’ve found you here! I’m Subscribing! Much love🥰❤️
Joan, many thanks for your kind comments, they mean so much to me! You did not miss a thing by not being part of all the hippie madness. Some of the hippie scene was sincere but got so waylaid by sex and drugs along the way, self included. I pray so much that at least a few young people will read my writing and be encouraged to slow down and “consider the cost.” Blessings to you and thank you for subscribing!! Wendy
"I will say to you, write down your experiences in youth!! Write the good days and the awful days! Write the snarling rage and the rants as well as the awesome and majestic days! Speak and record your voices, your hearts, your sorrows, your yearnings, your street-smarts and your hearts, broken as all of ours were as well."
The.above, is one excellent advice. I hope that not only the GenZs, but everyone heeds it.
Thanks Wendy for generously and authentically sharing with the next generation.
Thanks for the video, Dan! I was there somewhere in that big crowd as we marched down Geary St in the Spring of 1971. I remember the rally later, that unfortunately devolved into chaos on the stage, but the march itself went well. I also lived in San Francisco proper for a total of 31 years. Still an amazing City but gone over the edge, unfortunately. Wendy
Being, well, you know, a girl and all, you might never have seen the famous Bullitt chase.
You’d said you were not a car person but there is a lot of that era’s San Francisco here.
Both cars are unmarked, but Steve McQueen, in the green Mustang, is a cop and the good guy. The gentlemen in the larger car, a black Charger, are better dressed, look like respectable members of society but are very very bad guys
Dan, I saw the Steve McQueen movie and the Bullitt chase, very impressive. For 30 of my 31 years of life in San Francisco, I lived right downtown. I think some of the Bullitt scenes were filmed in the downtown area. The fact that McQueen did his own driving, a HUGE deal. Those SF streets are not at all easy, many of them not that wide and those HILLS!!!! Amazing movie from long ago. While I am not a "car girl", I love cars and respect their ability to get us from one place to another. In SF, me and my faithful little car were out and about for many years as I was a residential leasing agent. I traversed many hills in that car and I considered my car to be my traveling prayer closet! W.E.W.
Wendy, I honestly love you. My eyes are full of tears. I thank God for His calling on you. Turn, turn, turn. ❤️
That song “turn turn turn” by the Byrds, the use of the verses from Ecclesiastes, such a profound song. That was actually one of the deepest songs of the 1960’s, with the spiritual underpinning of it. I lived it! Love to you!! Wendy
I always loved that song. I can remember it playing in the house. Plus Ecclesiastes is just a very profound book. I quote verses from it all the time. Much love to you. ox
Thank you again, Deborah. The power of music to offer emotions and capture ideas is so overwhelming at times. Ecclesiastes is a very intense book, kind of mysterious, if Solomon was the author. He, after being King and with power and money and all he could desire in the flesh, now seeing the dark side of only the material realm, as opposed to the Spirit. I have to live for Eternity, this world is not my Home. Bless you, Wendy
Wendy, I agree.
I love (and I think it's my tagline somewhere here), "Live for heaven." That's what we are called to do. Eccleasiastes is very intense, like us writers, so perhaps that's why we love it. I've wondered if Solomon was the author and like to believe he was. Hope you're having a peaceful Saturday. We took my mama out for her belated birthday lunch. A blessing. ox
Yep, a good day. Enjoy your family!!! Writers indeed!!! We are nothing if not intense and I am grateful to be in such a great group of amazing writers, as “iron sharpens iron.” Take GOOD care!
‘For we ourselves were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful and hating one another. But when the kindness and the love of God our Savior toward man appeared , not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit, whom He poured out on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior, that having been justified by His grace we should become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.’
Titus 3:3-7 NKJV
I was right there with you, not in San Francisco, but in heart, for a good long while, chasing after the wind in fly over country.
Frogman, thank you! Truly this piece was even more acutely from Holy Spirit, Who is my writing Coach. I love that scripture from Titus, one of my favorites. God is so incredibly merciful to us all. None of us get it right each time but as I say, God wins the race and then gives US the prize ! What a Papa! Godspeed, Wendy
As another "boomer" (not so much used in UK) I am glad our 1960s Prime Minister Harold Wilson told the USA representatives who came to see him in London with a request (an instruction?)to join the Vietnam War,to go do one. He refused to cooperate with the mighty CIA. We know this now due to documents from that era that are archived at our national Public Record Office at Kew becoming available. People used to say that Harold Wilson was paranoid....he wasn't,they really were out to get him! In the mid 1970s in the middle of a very successful leadership he suddenly announced he was standing down,just like that,out of the blue. Some people "in the know" at the time hinted that some nastiness was involved. But wily old Mr Wilson lived the rest of his life in quiet obscurity with his nice wife,a poet,or she wrote poetry which a lot of smartclever people laughed at and made fun of but those sort of people are horrible anyway. It seems that there was a plan to bring him down and disgrace him over some land deal. I don't think there was anything actually illegal but there was scope to represent it as dodgy. But Wilson was a pretty canny operator so they didn't get to do it. I hate the thought of my two fine great-nephews being sent to war,ITS NOT 1914! ITS BLOODY WELL NOT 1914. But I also loathe the thought of being "mobilized" and "evacuated". It seems likely that if they do succeed in fomenting a conflict in Europe,then people like me,non-combatabts will be forced to leave our homes and get bussed to who knows where. Some people (in UK) seem to think it will be just like WW2 of which we have so many cosy images (!),but it won't.
Jane, thank you for the very intense info about Harold Wilson's refusal to join the Vietnam fray, this I did not know. Sometimes the stupidity a d sorrow of human beings is JUST TOO MUCH. WW2 was beyond our comprehension. Britain suffered horribly, as did Europe on all sides. I lost an Uncle from Canada who fell on D-Day and is buried in Normandy . War, the ancient plague of humanity. Hence why I CLING to God and His Son. No other way. Thank you again for responding to my piece and for offering a very deep comment! Blessings to you, Wendy
I’m older than baby boomers… just 80 now. But this is so perfectly said, Wendy… exactly what I’ll say/share with my grandkids. Anyone younger than 30/whatever the fuck gen because I can’t keep them straight! 😂 My heart goes out to you losing your mom and brother so young; finding your way through these awful times. I walked@ SF in barefoot with my toddler by the hand… thinking I could be hippie girl too. But my husband said no … we were grown ups now. my brother came home from Nam amidst riots and hate …he left for OZ and never came back. Our foreigner. My grkids are young adults…. Want to save it all, including democracy. I could not have said it better to them! Thank you so much…can’t wait to read the next lettters. You are a brilliant writer… so glad I’ve found you here! I’m Subscribing! Much love🥰❤️
Joan, many thanks for your kind comments, they mean so much to me! You did not miss a thing by not being part of all the hippie madness. Some of the hippie scene was sincere but got so waylaid by sex and drugs along the way, self included. I pray so much that at least a few young people will read my writing and be encouraged to slow down and “consider the cost.” Blessings to you and thank you for subscribing!! Wendy
"I will say to you, write down your experiences in youth!! Write the good days and the awful days! Write the snarling rage and the rants as well as the awesome and majestic days! Speak and record your voices, your hearts, your sorrows, your yearnings, your street-smarts and your hearts, broken as all of ours were as well."
The.above, is one excellent advice. I hope that not only the GenZs, but everyone heeds it.
Thanks Wendy for generously and authentically sharing with the next generation.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=550HvMbON4M&pp=ygUkTWFyY2ggMTk3MSBzYW4gZnJhbmNpc2NvIHBlYWNlIG1hcmNo
Thanks for the video, Dan! I was there somewhere in that big crowd as we marched down Geary St in the Spring of 1971. I remember the rally later, that unfortunately devolved into chaos on the stage, but the march itself went well. I also lived in San Francisco proper for a total of 31 years. Still an amazing City but gone over the edge, unfortunately. Wendy
Being, well, you know, a girl and all, you might never have seen the famous Bullitt chase.
You’d said you were not a car person but there is a lot of that era’s San Francisco here.
Both cars are unmarked, but Steve McQueen, in the green Mustang, is a cop and the good guy. The gentlemen in the larger car, a black Charger, are better dressed, look like respectable members of society but are very very bad guys
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FJZ-BHBKyos&pp=ygURYnVsbGl0dCBjYXIgY2hhc2U%3D
Dan, I saw the Steve McQueen movie and the Bullitt chase, very impressive. For 30 of my 31 years of life in San Francisco, I lived right downtown. I think some of the Bullitt scenes were filmed in the downtown area. The fact that McQueen did his own driving, a HUGE deal. Those SF streets are not at all easy, many of them not that wide and those HILLS!!!! Amazing movie from long ago. While I am not a "car girl", I love cars and respect their ability to get us from one place to another. In SF, me and my faithful little car were out and about for many years as I was a residential leasing agent. I traversed many hills in that car and I considered my car to be my traveling prayer closet! W.E.W.