This thread is inspired by the fact that a couple of weeks ago I was surfing the net and in an idle momment Googled my old commune from the Haight in the 60s/70s the Church of the Good Earth and the results led me here to reconnect with two sisters (Shameless_heifer & Rita) I hadn't seen in thirty years or so. I was still in SF at the time, but this beautiful morning I sit at the keyboard of Rita's puter in Nevada high on a love I had thought lost these many years ago. So I guess my question is do you think a forum and/or thread dedicated to reuniting members of the old communes /families of that era would be worthwhile ? If you do please respond with a mention of your family's name and a short message.
Awesome plan dude. Unfortunately, I've still got one more year with my folks before I can move into a hip family.
Where are you planning to go Jorma? I'm only 15, and it always sounds childish to see a young kid thinking "big about their future" but I'm already checking out the possibilities of hippy communes. =)
There's a man I work for who knows a guy who's looking to start a CSA in Ohio. He needs farm-hands and the guy I'm working for is going to introduce the two of us sometime soon (I hope). It's not exactly a commune, but it's the next best thing. Besides, I love working with animals, and the idea of a CSa is totally awesome.
I sit here lookin' at your post Ranger. It brings my heart gladness. So many times I hear ones say.. I wonder what hapened to so and so. I wish I could find my old family from back in the daze, and so fourth. I thought this same thing on several occasions. How does one find people that are scatered all over the USA, the answer was of course "The Internet". It reaches millions at once. In every nook and cranny in this world. Eventually all the Old Hippies will pass this way at one time to the other. They will come to see if they can find family and even themselves here in Hippyland. What brought me to the forums was this very thing. I was looking for my old commune family that I had sorely missed over the years. I had left messages here and there on other sites, hoping that someone who remembered me would see and respond. When Rita responded to my message, my prayers were answered. Rita and me grew up in the same town and partied many times in the earliy 60's, as the kids came and life itself had turned into a spiritual quest. We were each looking for truths untold. I had been living at The Church of The Good Earth for a couple of years, around 71' I went to visit my peeps in So Cali. I went to see Rita a few times while I was there and we partied and I told her tales of The Haight and all the Majick that was present in the very air and in the eyes of the Hippies that lined the streets and doorways. Rita had a faraway look in her eyes as I described the Commune and what we stood for. On my way outta town back to The Haight I stoped in to see Rita, we said our good-byes and wished each other well. I set off with my calf Jomie and my nephew Ian, both two yrs old, to the Interstate where we hitched a ride to the LA Airport, got to airport and they would not let us on the plane bc I had no shoes on. I hitched back to Rita's and told her our sad tale of how the establishment has fucked us yet again and now how were we to get back home to SF.. Waaaaa.. I could see the wheels start turnning in Rita's head, Her eyes became that of a tigers, her steps were planed and deliberate, she moved like lightening. Rita started grabing this and that in this room and that room, throwing clothes in a pile and stuffing them in pillow cases and bags. In less then an hour Rita had the girls packed and we were in her 1965 black ford galixy headed north on hwy 101. If it had not been for the ' message ' I left at that site, Rita and I would have never found each other. Now for the truely inspiriational part. Rita had relocated to Wheelers Ranch as did several of the family members in the earily 70's. She got involved with one of our good bros, Ranger. They did their thing for a while and then went their seperate ways. As Ranger stated in his frist post in this thread, that he was goggling up the 'Old Family' and came across my message and saw Rita's responce and Ranger emailed me and I hooked him up with Rita's YM ID. Ranger messaged her and within a week Ranger left SF after all this time and reunited with Rita under the Sierra Moon Now they are planning to ride off together and make a new beginning. My Brightest Blessings goes to them both on their journey and the rekindled love that they shared so many trips ago. In answer to the Thread, Yes!! I think a Forum where we could connect would be cool. It took me Eight yrs to find my family just goggling.. It would have been a lot sooner if there had been a place to start looking and leave a contact message, like say, Hi I'm Ranger from the Good Earth Commune and I'm looking for other family members to reconnect and gather. PM me with your info. Or however you want to phrase it. But I think also that leaving your personal info in an open forum leaves one open to hundreds of spammers wanting to give you 30 million dollars if you help them get their money out of the country.. HAAaaaHaaaaa. Ranger.. Why dont you ask Skip( the webmaster of this site) if he will open such a forum up in Personal Forums, with you as moderater. A place to leave your handle and who you are looking for, then if you hook up with someone you could trade stats in pm. At any rate and whatever happens, I am delighted that Rita and Ranger have found themselves in eachother and are manifesting their love into a realaity. Blessed Be, how wonderous is the working of things in this majical realm In Love and Light SH
