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Many of my friends say that I’m a “Child of the Sixties” and I must agree.
Over the years I have gone from a “Goldwater Republican” too a “Robert Kennedy Democrat” and find no contradiction in that switch.
As a distant relative to Judge Learned Billings Hand, often called the “First Free Speech Judge”, I come by “Liberalism” honestly and naturally.
Growing up I always wanted to be a writer, no wonder I enjoyed the Walton’s when it was a hit TV show, and blame that “bug” on Mr. Backus (11 grade English) and the Warren Harding publication “The Cauldron.”
Born in England of an English “Mum” and a “Yank” Dad has given me a more “Continental” outlook on the social and political aspects of life, plus throw in Viet Nam Era Vet, Kent State University student May 4th, 1970; Businessman; First openly gay male to run for public office in Warren Ohio; An elected John Kerry Alternate-Delegate to the 2004 DNC; In a committed life partnership for 20 years and you have the internals of what makes this “Baby Boomer” tick.
“If you don’t stand for something, then you’ll fall for nothing.”
I now invite you all to read my thoughts, touch my soul and let me bare my flesh, naked in the light of words.
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I enjoyed reading your poems this evening. Thoughtful work, heartfelt. I was quite touched by them. I am a little younger than you, but still know something of the “sixties.”
Thank you for your comment. It isn’t the “youth in the age but the age in the youth.”
Enjoyed reading your blog and especially your poetry.
I enjoyed reading your poems this evening. Thoughtful work, heartfelt. I was quite touched by them. I am a little younger than you, but still know something of the “sixties.”
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