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OK, here’s a question for you. Back in the day (my day, that is! Long long ago and far, far away...) everywhere you looked you saw “BE.” It was on plaques, in sculptures, scribbled on walls, and an acquaintance even wrote it below her signature like many write hearts or other doodles. If you’re old enough to remember this tidbit from the era of hippies and flower children, tell me .... what the heck did it mean?
I once said that I liked it, because to me it meant to really BE, to live life fully, to do more than exist. And I was told that wasn’t what it meant at all. So I asked what it meant. The answer? “If you don’t know, it can’t be explained.” Sheesh.
That was the “age of enlightenment,” but apparently the enlightenment was only for a select few. I thought any word was open to interpretation, but apparently that one wasn’t! Confusing! I felt like I was being denied the secret password that would admit me to the tree house. So I kept my thoughts to myself, enjoyed my own interpretation and lived happily ever after; till today when I began wondering again. I've looked on the internet, but didn't find anything about it.
Is there anyone out there who was admitted to the club and is now willing to break the silence? I don't want to be the only aging flower child who doesn't know!
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I think you are on the mark. I think it's Be who you are. Be true to yourself. Be in the moment. Be the best you that you can be.
ReplyDeleteBut what do I know? :)
Casey, regardless of what I learn from this exercise, that's what I'm choosing to believe, in spite of the hippy-dippy friend of a friend who told me I was wrong!
ReplyDeleteI must have lived further in the back woods than I thought. This is the first I've seen of the hippie happening. Sorry
ReplyDeleteI'm with you on this one, just BE.
ReplyDeleteI am with Linda...this is the first time I have seen this saying. Maybe I am too young.
ReplyDeleteLinda, perhaps it was a regional thing here in NM, although I once saw one in a thrift shop in KC.
ReplyDeleteKim, unless proven otherwise, that's it!
Caroline, yes, you're too young. it was in the 60s and early 70s. But "BE" I will!
I am too young also. But I wanted to say I love the feet and toes and the dogs look so comfy.
ReplyDeleteBobbie, yep, thanks, and yep!
ReplyDeleteHi there, remember me? :-)
ReplyDeleteWell, my friend, I don't have a CLUE as to what it means. In fact, I've never seen it before...what does that tell you? (Right, I don't get out much) :). But I will say that I really like what YOU think it means. So that's what I'm going with, lol
Yeah, my memory sucks.
ReplyDeleteDawn & Kathi, gee thanks, y'all! Next time I need help .... LOL!! Yes, I'll call on you!!
ReplyDeleteIt just Be
ReplyDeleteOK.
ReplyDeletemaybe BE is to just exist...the Hippies seemed very passive and perhaps when you said "live life fully" your Hippie friend perceived your answer as lots of doing, lots of action...and that sounded to her too much like being part of the "Establishment".
ReplyDeleteAnyway, it really may have been her mis-perception that caused her to say "no, that is not what it means"(which is frankly a non-Hippie unkind thing to say!)
One of my new favorite songs on youtube is by George Harrison called "Inner Light"...it seems to be very much of the late 60's early 70's era. The song seems to espouse the idea of "Be" in the passive spiritual sense
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhHm-5lKkZ0
BE...had another thought. could it be Black Empowerment? Altho not sure if the flower along with the BE would fit with Black Empowerment.
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