I'm surprised there hasn't been more comments on this song.
I didn't see a war. I didn't live through anything terrible. The thought of terrorism doesn't scare me one bit. But this song still gives me hope. For a sheltered girl such as myself, it sort of gave me a fantasy, a dream of something bigger than myself. The hippie movement pretty much accounts for everything that I have never been allowed to do/allowed to experience/allowed to imagine. But this song liberated me in that I wanted to branch out, realizing how incredibly limited modern society is.
I mean lets face it, there are no movements like the hippie movements anymore! There are no congregations like Woodstock. There is no campaign for loving your neighbour, or banding together for the commong purpose of peace. (At least not to a grand extent.) There is the internet, the rare protest, and mostly just disgrunted people doing nothing to turn this planet's state around. I would be a hypocrite to say that I myself have broken away from the pack and done something inspirational that would merit this song.
Bottom line: This song brings back a time when people stood up for a belief with all their heart and soul, even if their faith lay only in love + music + maybe a few drugs along the way. Faith in anything is something the present day hugely lacks.
@britbach
You posted this 12 years ago. I looked up these words to be inspired today myself.(I grew up in the 60s-70s) I didn't go to Woodstock. (One of my few regrets in my life... I could have) But I went to something more important. The March on Washington. We didn't think it made a difference in ending the Vietnam War, but apparently it did. When documents were revealed about the end of the war, the demonstrators and lowering public support for the war did play a huge factor. That demonstration, which had about 1 million in...
@britbach
You posted this 12 years ago. I looked up these words to be inspired today myself.(I grew up in the 60s-70s) I didn't go to Woodstock. (One of my few regrets in my life... I could have) But I went to something more important. The March on Washington. We didn't think it made a difference in ending the Vietnam War, but apparently it did. When documents were revealed about the end of the war, the demonstrators and lowering public support for the war did play a huge factor. That demonstration, which had about 1 million in attendance in Washington DC also made it into my children's history books in this century.
Since your comment/post, in 2007, protests are not "rare" anymore! The largest protest of the planet happened at the first Woman's March in 2016. It was world wide! Los Angeles had 700K in attendance. Since then there are many demonstrations each year. They DO make a difference. People have FINALLY stood up for their beliefs again.
@britbach I love what she wrote and find these words very inspirational. On this Earth there is good and evil, their is no denying that, there is hate and love. We are all stardust and come in billion pieces of dust together to bring love and peace to the universe. I do believe what Joni is saying is that we are caught up in the universe between good and we via and we need to get back to the innocence of the Garden of Eden. Back to our roots and our souls return to the stardust...
@britbach I love what she wrote and find these words very inspirational. On this Earth there is good and evil, their is no denying that, there is hate and love. We are all stardust and come in billion pieces of dust together to bring love and peace to the universe. I do believe what Joni is saying is that we are caught up in the universe between good and we via and we need to get back to the innocence of the Garden of Eden. Back to our roots and our souls return to the stardust when our bodies die and we are the moon, stars and sun. Humankind make up the universe in the image of God. I love what came from her heart. We are all small here compared to the grand scheme of things but together we bring love and peace to the universe.
I'm surprised there hasn't been more comments on this song.
I didn't see a war. I didn't live through anything terrible. The thought of terrorism doesn't scare me one bit. But this song still gives me hope. For a sheltered girl such as myself, it sort of gave me a fantasy, a dream of something bigger than myself. The hippie movement pretty much accounts for everything that I have never been allowed to do/allowed to experience/allowed to imagine. But this song liberated me in that I wanted to branch out, realizing how incredibly limited modern society is.
I mean lets face it, there are no movements like the hippie movements anymore! There are no congregations like Woodstock. There is no campaign for loving your neighbour, or banding together for the commong purpose of peace. (At least not to a grand extent.) There is the internet, the rare protest, and mostly just disgrunted people doing nothing to turn this planet's state around. I would be a hypocrite to say that I myself have broken away from the pack and done something inspirational that would merit this song.
Bottom line: This song brings back a time when people stood up for a belief with all their heart and soul, even if their faith lay only in love + music + maybe a few drugs along the way. Faith in anything is something the present day hugely lacks.
@britbach You posted this 12 years ago. I looked up these words to be inspired today myself.(I grew up in the 60s-70s) I didn't go to Woodstock. (One of my few regrets in my life... I could have) But I went to something more important. The March on Washington. We didn't think it made a difference in ending the Vietnam War, but apparently it did. When documents were revealed about the end of the war, the demonstrators and lowering public support for the war did play a huge factor. That demonstration, which had about 1 million in...
@britbach You posted this 12 years ago. I looked up these words to be inspired today myself.(I grew up in the 60s-70s) I didn't go to Woodstock. (One of my few regrets in my life... I could have) But I went to something more important. The March on Washington. We didn't think it made a difference in ending the Vietnam War, but apparently it did. When documents were revealed about the end of the war, the demonstrators and lowering public support for the war did play a huge factor. That demonstration, which had about 1 million in attendance in Washington DC also made it into my children's history books in this century. Since your comment/post, in 2007, protests are not "rare" anymore! The largest protest of the planet happened at the first Woman's March in 2016. It was world wide! Los Angeles had 700K in attendance. Since then there are many demonstrations each year. They DO make a difference. People have FINALLY stood up for their beliefs again.
@britbach I love what she wrote and find these words very inspirational. On this Earth there is good and evil, their is no denying that, there is hate and love. We are all stardust and come in billion pieces of dust together to bring love and peace to the universe. I do believe what Joni is saying is that we are caught up in the universe between good and we via and we need to get back to the innocence of the Garden of Eden. Back to our roots and our souls return to the stardust...
@britbach I love what she wrote and find these words very inspirational. On this Earth there is good and evil, their is no denying that, there is hate and love. We are all stardust and come in billion pieces of dust together to bring love and peace to the universe. I do believe what Joni is saying is that we are caught up in the universe between good and we via and we need to get back to the innocence of the Garden of Eden. Back to our roots and our souls return to the stardust when our bodies die and we are the moon, stars and sun. Humankind make up the universe in the image of God. I love what came from her heart. We are all small here compared to the grand scheme of things but together we bring love and peace to the universe.