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We are Stardust, We are Golden

40 years ago but it still resonates…….
I came upon a child of god
He was walking along the road
And I asked him, where are you going?
And this he told me
I’m going on down to Yasgur’s farm
I’m going to join in a rock n roll band
I’m going to camp out on the land
I’m going to try and get my soul free
We are stardust
We are golden
And we’ve got to get ourselves
Back to the garden

Then can I walk beside you
I have come here to lose the smog
And I feel to be a cog in something turning
Well maybe it is just the time of year
Or maybe it’s the time of man
I don’t know who l am
But you know life is for learning
We are stardust
We are golden
And we’ve got to get ourselves
Back to the garden

By the time we got to Woodstock
We were half a million strong
And everywhere there was song and celebration
And I dreamed I saw the bombers
Riding shotgun in the sky
And they were turning into butterflies
Above our nation
We are stardust
Billion year old carbon
We are golden
Caught in the devils bargain
And we’ve got to get ourselves
Back to the garden

by Joni Mitchell in 1969
(we both only watched it on the TV news)

Summer of Love

August arrives tomorrow and with it the 40th anniversary of Woodstock - in celebration I am getting the Woodstock Moleskine…
they just look so cool and fun. They are sort of hard to find, but Barnes & Noble in Rockville had some so I had them save two for me -I am going to give one to Greg (shhhhh) since he did so well in his history of rock & roll class this summer.
Perhaps I’ll have to get some music too, hmmm maybe this?