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This year in Three Weeks for Dreamwidth, I'll be posting questions from the new 2024 questionnaire that I made. If you like the questions, feel free to follow along. You can post your answers in a comment below, or make a post in your own blog and link to it in a comment.

Question 16: What is something that you like that your parents do?


All the hippie things. That was my 2022 anchor topic in Three Weeks for Dreamwidth, sorted into culture, food, and crafts. So, I'm a hippie because that's the culture I grew up in. The last time I watched a documentary about sexuality, the monumental amount of sexual ignorance was so appalling that I made a point of mentioning how grateful I was that my parents raised me as a hippie so I knew what my body parts are for and that pleasure is a human right.

I cook like a hippie and have all three of the core cookbooks. My partner and I have dozens of ethnic cookbooks too. When we read The Complete Beans and Grains Cookbook recently, I remarked on what a hippie book it was.

I love hippie crafts, whether I am good at them myself or prefer to pay an expert. I can cobble up a macramé hanger if I need to, but the fancy one in my plant window came from another crafter. Yes, I still have a plant window, where my father built a wooden planter to fill most of a notch in the living room to hold my mother's plants.

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Date: 2024-05-13 04:55 am (UTC)
From: [personal profile] acelightning73
My parents were "Greatest Generation", which makes me a Boomer. I liked the fact that my mom and dad weren't averse to holding hands or hugging in public. My mother and her sisters taught me how to cook, and I'm proud of my skill. My father taught me how to use tools safely, and how to troubleshoot problems logically, and how to fix just about everything, and also how to drive well. (Although I don't feel it's safe for me to drive since the stroke - I get overwhelmed by too many inputs too fast.) So I had a pretty reasonable upbringing. And I became a hippie in my late teens (early college years, 1966 to 1972 or so.

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