Then and now

Taking a small course of B vits to see if they'll help at all. I remembered being given some at Warwick hospital so decided to read up on the net to see if they might be able to help in any way and it's possible that they might.

Looked back at more things from the 60s and into the 70s. Went back a bit before my teen years into the Beat generation. Guess the Woodstock people had evolved from the Beats through the people that called themselves hipsters, a lot of whom were original Beats, into the hippies of the Woodstock generation.

Someone I knew said that the hipsters were the real hippies and that the Woodstock people were something totally different. Well, we were a totally different generation .. and I would say that the original hipsters .. Ken Kelsey's magic bus crowd .. were different from quite a lot of the beats and the Woodstock hippies because they were all about promoting drugs where as quite a few beats and hippies didn't take them.

But, I guess the Woodstock people did originate from the Beats who moved into San Francisco and from the anti war movement of the time .. a mixture that included a lot of different people.

I don't know if some people romanticise the times a bit now .. Woodstock was a festival and the music was great but it was also a time of war .. in 1967 an average of around 770 Americans were killed a month in that war, escalating dramatically in 1968.

It was a time of political activism that journeyed on into the 70's on all kinds of fronts.