You Know You Are a Hippie When….

Lately I have been wondering if a little bit of some inner Hippie characteristics have been creeping to the surface of my being. I just wasn’t sure if grinding wheat into flour, making whole wheat bread, eating a lot less meat (I don’t have anything against eating meat but when I have a choice between eating bread and or eating anything else I tend to choose bread – especially homemade bread), knitting, wanting to buy less, consume less, and produce less garbage was part of the Hippie lifestyle. So when I found The Hippie Handbook on the clearance shelf at Half Price Book I knew I would find the answers within its flower power pages.
Here are the Hippie Things I Have Done In My Lifetime
1. Worn my hair like Joan Baez – long, straight and parted in the middle


2. Anthropomorphized (a great new word I just learned by reading this enlightening book) an inanimate object. Yes, I did. I named my car Bart and talked to him “How are you on this cold morning?” “Do you think your engine will start for me today?” “Sorry about the whole hood-flying-up-ordeal while driving around the point of the mountain.”
3. Macraméd many groovy belts for my hip hugger bell bottom jeans.
4. Spouted an avocado seed in a jar.
5. Owned a sweet hippie ride – a 1965 VW Beetle named Bart.


6. A Sun Salutation – a series of yoga positions.
7. Danced around the May Pole.
8. Made a dandelion crown.
9. Used a cable spool as a table.


10. Read The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran

None of my five children but all four of my granddaughters have acceptable Hippie names. Haley, Maya, Avery, and Alice

Man, what a bummer. I guess being a hippie it is not my bag. I am not down with the many new things I would need to do to be a true Hippie like – Flash a Peace Sign at appropriate times, Howl at the Moon on occasion, Build a Compost Pile, Panhandle, Hitchhike, Take care of Birkenstocks, Draw Psychedelic Letters, Tie Die a T-Shirt, Employ a Mantra while Meditating, Paint a Mural of rainbows, sunrises, or unicorns on the side of my house, Tree Sit, Smoke Bananas and Say things like “Can you dig it?” “I have to split.” Peace.