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DAY TRIPPER. Part 1

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 A trip down memory lane.  During the mid to late 1960s I was a working musician in a popular local pop band.   During this period the band took metherdrin (speed) to help us keep alert during long hours and late nights.  I worked a day job, Monday to Friday 7.30am - 4pm and worked doing gigs on the weekend's. Often we'd play an after noon gig and 2 evening gigs on a Saturday and Sunday. That's 6 gigs a weekend, often not getting back home before 3am. We relied on the speed to keep us awake and pumped up. When the Summer of Love arrived in 1967  and a new drug called LSD became the talk of the world, I felt a need to seek out the drugs availability in Sydney.  Musicians and artists around the world claimed that the drug opened up the doors of perception and creativity; The Beatles headlined their opinions.  Psychedelic music , art and fashion flooded the cities of the world and the hippie culture was born.            ...
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Part Three ; "Grow old with me".

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" A sane man in an insane world ". Part Three  " Grow old with me ". As I think as to what I shall write, I am slowly getting in "the zone" where everything flows and I can keep typing as fast as I'm thinking.  I rely on inspiration and the natural flow of thought to write my Bloggs rather than prepared material. I don't know what I will write until I tune into the flow of my thoughts. As I grow older I've discovered that time speeds up and there isn't enough time to do all the things I plan for my day.  Things appear to take longer to do and sometimes it appears that i cover the same territory twice. It takes longer to do things when one is in their 60's/ 70's, therefore Time appears to speed up.  We wake up one day to discover " 10 years have got behind us " and our life is growing short. Some days go by so fast that it's difficult remembering what I did during the time and memory re-call on the ...
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Our Insane world

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" A Sane Man ". ( in an insane world ). Part 2. Staying sane is a full-time job and each day contains its questionable events that distract and divert ones blissfullness. I try to stay conscious of my thoughts and actions from moment to moment whilst remaining fluid in my decisions.  Living in the Now is difficult at the best of times and often only acheivable when one is alone or separated from other distractions/realities.  I must Be Here Now to understanding all that i am perceiving around me and to learn about who I am. We all yearn to understand who we are and what is our purpose of Being; we instinctively seek out the Meaning of Life.  We all want life to have some purpose and meaning but when one looks around and sees all the insanity happening in the world, one has to question whether life has any meaning at all?"   " Are we simply born to live a short lifespan and then die?". The Big Questions in life like " Who created mankind?...
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