It is currently 3:50am (eastern time) and I just decided to join this wonderful site on a whim while researching communes. I am a college student in New York, and I am relatively new to the hippie culture. My first experience in this world came about 2 years ago at a music festival in Massachusetts called Strange Creek. (Anyone else ever been?) I immediately fell in love with the culture and for the first time in my life I truly felt like I belonged. Ever since then I've taken up meditation, vegetarianism, drinking way too much tea, and listening to way too much Led Zeppelin. I love this culture and this Earth and all of you beautiful people. Annyyyway, I just wanted to introduce myself and remind anyone reading this..... "Yesterday is a history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift... That's why they call it the present" -tea bag quote (gotta love em)