There is no going back. However, revisiting the past is not only possible, it allows tools to be carried forward. Tools of perspective which when applied, build on experience that transform the present. Isn't that what change is? Isn't that what we signed on for when we voted for Obama in 2008?
From OPOL's book, Wear Your Love Like Heaven, the Hippy Diaries, regarding change in the 1960’s :
“we were tied together by an earnest desire to make sense of an insane world.”
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“we were bound and determined to change the world and shared a powerful sense that we had a unique opportunity to do so. “
(all blockquotes in this diary are OPOL’s own words.)
Does that strike a cord that resonates with the recent past? It does in me.
Flip with me to read a bit about OPOL’s book.
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