Peace, love and brotherhood. Remember those days? . . .

“Come on, people, now, smile on each other, everybody get together, try to love one another right now.” (Chester Powers, Chester William, Jr.)

And:

“What the world needs now is love, sweet love.” (Hal David, Burt Bacharach)

And:

“Yes, and how many times must the cannonballs fly before they’re forever banned?” (Bob Dylan)

And, forever:

“Imagine …” (John Lennon)

Naive? Dreamers? Dumb kids? Is that what they called us?

Well, maybe we were. But our naive dreams got us through the Cold War without blowing ourselves and each other off the face of the earth.

I know it’s an impossible pipe dream, but more and more these days, I find myself wishing we could bring back the spirit of those times . . .

. . . especially if I could be 18 again.

Peace, brothers and sisters. Peace.

Just sayin’ . . .

Brendochka
2/14/25