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Hippie day! Help with outfit?
So far I got my Beatles shirt, an anti-war pin, a dove necklace and a peace necklace, flare jeans and sandals. What else can I use to make me a hippie?
I don't know if I should go with the headband with a big flower on it, or a tie-dye bandanna. Any suggestions? Please, advice.
Do a side braided pony tail
with a braided hippie band.
No Flower. Wear Mocassins, a skirt,
& a colorful, tie die shirt.
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Blue Doves and a War Zone
It’s hot and I’m walking in a war zone. There is tension here in the cool sycamore shade, in the hot hissing blacktop, wafting in and out of the contrasting temperatures. On a lawn to my right, slightly elevated and beneath a large picture window is a sign that states, “War is Not the Answer”. The words are shouted in baby blue, the silhouette of a dove in flight floats in a corner on the white background. My contrarian mind wonders what is the question and why be so obtuse. When one has something to say, especially something important, I’ve found that few one liners adequately express the point. A woman when told she has lovely eyes wants to know what it is that is lovely about them. “War is Not the Answer” begs a question and questions beg answers.
So why would a homeowner post this sign on their front lawn I ask myself as I tread carefully past. I'm respectful enough not to appear as though marching. It is not the first time I’ve seen this particular sign and each time I pass it I am hopeful that the owner will be outside weaving blankets for displaced refugees and drinking cool, bottled French water. If they were, I might ask some questions about this sign. I might ask this apparent peace-nik what is the question and what is the answer to it. I might ask them why they are withholding the answer. I might ask them if it was their habit to declare war in such a passive-aggressive way and if this was common in all aspects of their life, or do they limit their agression to signage.
Naked aggression offends. War would certainly rank at the horrid end of a scale measuring the horridness of naked aggression, with perhaps little children calling names at the other end. Certainly obtuse and haughty signs are somewhere along the scale. Passive aggression however isn’t always so naked. It is clothed like the wolf in the flock. It poses as sweetness and light, as understanding and helpfulness, as ignorance or witlessness. Perhaps passive aggressiveness is what I find most offensive about this sign I decide as I crest the hill.
The sign is passive-aggressively anti-war. To post this sign a person must believe that their neighbors are war mongers harboring secret caches of weapons. It is a civic responsibility to correct them. But here is the truly passive aggressive part, outright confrontation must be avoided (lest a rocket take out the sign). The message must be obtuse, not stating a question or an answer, it only implies that some people in this neighborhood have the wrong answer and that the owner of such a superior sign has the right one.
This person believes that there is power in posting a non message, that the literary power of their signage will generate a stampede of like-minded thought. The owner of this sign must believe that a disconnected answer to an unasked question posted on the lawn in babbly blue will lead the neighborhood of closet war mongers to lay down their bazookas and join the Blue Doves.
I turn a corner into hot sunshine and leave the war-torn neighborhood behind. I’ve named this covert peace mongering underground the Blue Doves; they’ve exposed themselves. I know where they are. There is a passive aggressiveness to the Blue Doves that belies their logo and betrays their color scheme.
I walk on enjoying the peace of life outside the war zone. http://crankyblog.com
About the Author
I am an aging curmudgeon in Sacramento.
