I would like to introduce my parents to you. That’s my mom, dad and me in the middle. They look so young, beautiful and in love. I love the tranquility of the background and the innocence of the picture. Of course I love this particular picture, because it’s my family and me. When I look at old scanned photos, I feel like it gives a glimpse of history; it was the year of flower power, hippies, Vietnam War, Cold War, the Beatles, lots of drugs, protests and activism. It was also the year when Civil Rights movement leader Martin Luther King was shot dead on 4th of April 1968... (tomorrow, 41 years ago)
I would like to dedicate this post to one of the most amazing man in the history of United States. I commemorate his life and his untimely death by posting his most famous speech, I have a dream...
Never Let The Past, Slip Away!
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Dearest Nevin,
I have twice attempted to comment about this post but I am being continually interrupted. Here I go again.
I absolutely love the photo, your parents look so charming and in love. In fact the photo says ‘Life is about us’.
Your father has his hands in his pockets looking into your mother’s eyes. Your mother has a girlish stand with her hands behind her back looking at the impressive individual before her.
Nevin, I am afraid that if the pram decided to slowly make its descent down the bank and into the pond, they may have been totally oblivious to the event.:) I am so glad that you are around to post the photo. :)
I have a photo from 1968 also, that is a very nice one of your parents
When I see the photo, I know who it is... but still at the same time, when I look at it from the corner of my eye, I see you and your brother having a beautiful conversation together by that pond. Its a gorgeous photo... and it makes me wonder if we have one as meaningful to pass on to our beloved child.
I was right in the middle of the turmoil, of 1968. Really exciting times.
The United States had a conscripted army. If you were a college student, you had more ways to get out of the army.
You would have fit in fine.
Ardent, your last sentence cracked me and my husband up!!!.... you are totally wonderful... :) :)
Sarge, thanks for dropping by and your kind comment.
mberkmen, I look nothing like my mother... I am wayyyyyy prettier.... :) :) :)
Renegade, I often wished I was a college student in the 60's in the US... Those were the times of true "change". Not the kind of rhetoric we hear today, sadly :(
That's a delightful photo Nevin. Me? I am glad to have ben a child in the 60s rather than a child of the 60s!
Nevin
There was change in the 1960s, sure, but not as much as some might say, after all, if there had been we would not be where we are today.
The main thing about the 1960s was that a half inch of space was created in which radical politics, art, music, film, etc etc could bloom.
The sad fact was millions of those young people who participated in these ventures, especially amongst the middle classes, returned to the safety of their parents cocoon; and by 1979 in the UK, they voted for Mrs Thatcher and in 1980 in the USA, Ronald Regan.
Wonderful loving photograph.
jams, I am glad you enjoyed the photo... Isn't old photos wonderful... hopefully the photos we take will be saved and our kids can enjoy it as we do theirs.
Mick, you are so absolutely right! There is a German movie I watched last year which was about exactly you words.
An activist, pot smoking young man, turns into a rich, pompous, arrogant fat cat... the hypocrisy of that generation and how they let down the young generations of today....
PS: I really enjoy your take on world politics... :)
Such a poignant picture. Wonderful.
"There is a German movie I watched last year..."
Was that The Edukators?
Sean, yes! did you enjoy it?
I thought it was pretty good...
Loved it. One of my favourite films of the last few years.
Brilliant ending too.
Me too... :)
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