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REWRITING HISTORY: HOW HARD CAN IT BE

April 15, 2024 by David Gillaspie

People are rewriting history all of the time and don’t know it. If you repeat what you’ve heard to one person, and it turns out to be not accurate, what’s the big deal? Not so big for one person, but what if you repeat what you know to be false to millions of people? Do […]

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: Baby Boomers, blue dress, BOOMER, boomers, c-span, cancer, conservatives, Coos Bay, graduate, high school, hippie, history, job, legal weed, lessons, MARRIAGE, millennials, money, normal people, North Bend, poverty, premarital sex, profession, rewriting history, sex, stories, story, wife, writer, writing

SAD SONGS ON SUNDAY? PERFECT

May 7, 2023 by David Gillaspie

Sad Songs by Elton John on Sunday: If someone else is suffering enough oh to write it downWhen every single word makes senseThen it’s easier to have those songs aroundThe kick inside is in the line that finally gets to youAnd it feels so good to hurt so badAnd suffer just enough to sing the […]

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SEE ME FEEL ME/LISTENING TO YOU

August 7, 2022 by David Gillaspie

“See Me, Feel Me” is The Who inviting their audience to wake up. Right behind you, I see the millionsOn you, I see the gloryFrom you, I get opinionFrom you, I get the story That was in 1969. What’s changed since then? What hasn’t?

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: 1969, facebook, feel me, heal me, hippie, history, mindless conformity, see me, Social media, youtube

HIPPIE HISTORY WITH FADING VISION

July 20, 2022 by David Gillaspie

There should be more hippie history posts on a blog called BoomerPdx? I’ll talk to the manager. I like hippie-era history for one reason: the shifting time frame, and what was/is a REAL hippie?

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: Baby Boomers, blog, blog history, boomers, good trouble, hippie, hippie days, hippie food, hippie history, hippies, history, old hippies, real hippie, young people

BOOMERS WANT LIST INCLUDES WHAT THEY DIDN’T GET

April 3, 2021 by David Gillaspie

Boomers want more, more, more? That’s the whine that comes from the echo chamber of other generations, like baby boomers are a cut and run company of ruin and destruction. Boomers I know want that elusive dish in life, harmony with a side of peace, love, and understanding. Boomer wannabes want the same thing, but […]

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TWO HANDS: WISH IN ONE, TRUMP IN THE OTHER

August 14, 2020 by David Gillaspie

The old saying about hope starts with two hands, one for wishes. While this is an opinion blog, my opinions, and not a political blog, I share the unusual and exceptional. Like now:

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: american elections, blogger, hands, hippie, liar, lying, mr. trump, opinion, opinions, post office, potus, president trump, trump, voting, wishes and dreams, writer, writing

AMERICAN WEED MAP, WITH HIGHWAY TO HELL

January 26, 2020 by David Gillaspie

Google ‘legal weed map America’ and this is what you get. Or, maybe it was ‘legal weed state map.’ The pic is a screen shot. The dark left side are legal weed states with weed stores. The bottom right is a lighter shade on most maps.

Filed Under: What's Up Tagged With: America, american weed, CBD, drugs, hippie, hippies, maps, marijuana, marijuana map, medical marijuana, THC, weed

BICYCLE DAY FOLLOWED BY 420? CALL A DOCTOR, STAT

April 20, 2018 by David Gillaspie

Call a doctor and ask about the medical qualities of acid and weed. Maybe your doc has some non-medical experience to share, but probably won’t. If your medical provider isn’t in the loop, boomerpdx will shine some light. No, not crack the sky light from the heavens above with a big voice […]

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FIRST RESPONDERS READY TO GO

August 1, 2016 by David Gillaspie

In exhibition or action, First Responders are first for a reason. Every emergency, natural or man made, needs the same thing: HELP! First Responders are that help. The more you know about them, the harder their job feels.

Filed Under: Who's Up Tagged With: Baby Boomers, Beaverton Farmers Market, boomers, emergency, firemen, first responders, help, Hillsdale Blueberry Pancake Breakfast., hippie, oregon brewers festival, pacific northwest, policemen

ANXIOUS MILLENNIALS? WHO ISN’T ANXIOUS?

July 15, 2016 by David Gillaspie

Anxious Boomers worse than Anxious Millennials? Who carries stress worse, young people or old? Millennials are the young part, boomers the old part. Which group is more stressed? Ask around, or look in the mirror and ask these questions;

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