It's all about whats in your mind man. It's not like halloween, like for example "If I want to be a vampire, how should I dress?" No man that's not it at all. I wish I can say I don't despise people that think that just because they wear hemp or smoke pot they're a hippy, you could still have no personal opinions or views on anything. Which makes you like all the other uneducated idiots running around trying to become rich.
My collection of Beat books... Jack Kerouac - On the Road: The Original Scroll, The Dharma Bums, Big Sur, The Subterraneans, Desolation Angels, Pic, Satori in Paris Allen Ginsberg - Kaddish and Other Poems, Howl: Original Draft, Collected Poems Gregory Corso - Mindfield William S. Burroughs - Naked Lunch and many other books.......
i still roll my cigarettes by hand??? funny how many people offer you a ready made cigarette when they see you open up yor tobacco pouch and rolling papers ...i politely decline and tell them it's by preference not by necessity..hell i probably make way more money than they do
1971 VW van. 1951 school bus, which forms part of my house. Books, music. House full of bones, skulls, feathers, rocks, etc., collected from wandering the Appalachian Trail and Sonoran Desert for decades. My husband of 39 years!!!
I still have my Fillmore West shirt, and it ALMOST fits. I can't figure out HOW it could shrink just hanging there in the closet. I also have the NY Daily News edition proclaiming 600,000 attend Summer Jam at Watkins Glen. That was the summer of 73. I would have made Woodstock except we stopped at a friends house to smoke some hash (and eat the leftovers from his familys dinner that night). When we emerged 30mins later we thought we had forgotten where we parked the car. After scourring the block and coming up empty, we came to the conclusion (and the fact) that our car had been STOLEN.
as far as hippie "equipment", which to me implies physical possessions and tools, I'd have to say that for me it would be my sketchbook, journal, weed, a bong, a lighter. Oh, and as for clothes: 1. My awesome "Atticus" black hoodie jacket (gotta have one!) with the dead crow and key zipper 2. My baggy, "Free Hugs" and "Give Peace a Chance" jeans (wrote on phrases with permanent marker) 2. My tye dye t-shirt (Pictured below) or my Beatles Shirt
i've seen lots of people that own "hippy equipment" and turn out to be anything but....can't judge a book by it's cover. Like everbody says, hippy comes from the heart, but looking at my long hair helps remind me too.
My spirit I don't need no fancy clothes, no hemp or beads, coz I want to live free Possessions, no matter what amount just somethin else to lug about show me something man can yield that'd compare to a wildflower in a field all I need, love and food, water and somewhere to rest my head when I don't need those...I'll be dead. No fancy grave would do it for me just give me to the trees
heh ironic but my lack of a materialistic attitude is what makes me a hippies. That and my eye for the psychodelic and nature. my ability to coast through life happily with out a home or steady job.
