'Forever Country' REvisiting favourites great for the brain

 Artists of then, now and forever - FOREVER COUNTRY

This puts a smile on my face as I sing along

https://youtu.be/s9gAXwYZtfk       Click on the link for a really clever presentation!

Love them all!!  Takes me back to the late 70's when I lived in the USA.

Clara

ps - Do you know that revisiting your favourite music from the past is amazingly good for the brain?

My favourite way back then xx

Featuring the Babyboomer body - it's OK to be white!

 

OK BB
I'm going to be featuring the Babyboomer body because two glasses of good red wine have stopped the throbbing in my nose and upper right chest after a day procedure at RNS (local hospital).

It's important to pass it on to our children and grandchildren, even though they already know, that skin has 'memory', and my nose and right chest remembers the times I allowed them to be exposed to the sun. 

My Anglosaxon pale skin areas were exposed  pre awareness of skin memory and future damage from the sun's rays.  Initially, it was when, our family was out there having fun perhaps caravaning in Dad's homemade caravan in New Zealand.  If you caught too much sun on the weekend you would peel by Wednesday or Thursday when my sister and I had fun peeling the skin from each other's shoulders, like little monkeys.

Then there was the 'greater awareness stage' - a time when I wanted the look of the time, which meant being brown, even though I was a " 'pakehah - white person in Maori'."
By this time we had moved to Australia  and I was a teenager, with a brand new forbidden bikini.  Bondi had the whitest of sand and my visit there included a full body spray of coconut oil, resulting in my entire body being fried by the sun.  It also meant that the wearing of  the forbidden 'bikini' was revealed when  I returned home looking like a tomato - and that was how my dad treated the burn ie with ripe tomatoes. 

Fortunately our education has moved us on from this state of mind.  However many of us remain there and still want to be tanned. 
I actually don't want that any more and am reminded today that it's OK to be white.
Clara

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For the good of the nation

To babyboomers

Before I was a mom

My friend R from Milwaukee wrote...My mom was my best friend and is always on my mind, especially on Mother's Day. The one memory that stays with me vividly is that she was always there everyday, waiting for us to get home from school. On the rare day that I got home to find her gone, I can remember sitting in the window of our living room watching for her to come around the corner. She did not drive, so she would walk "downtown" to shop. I can still see her walking back home to us.

Clara - Mine too - How fortunate we were to have those nuturing memories. Not as easy for young mums to achieve that today, much as they would like to.
And of course at that time, women's identity was centred on family responsibilities; marriage and motherhood were advocated as being women's main career path - to look after men, populate the country and be optimistic in the face of misery, when men were the courageous soldiers and women were self sacrificing supporters - for the good of the nation. From the 'Australian Women's Weekly' - 1940s fiction and the construction of the female identity.

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Were there Easter Bunnies when we were children?

Mary Pickford the silent film star taken in 1923; she is painting eggs.

Hi Babyboomers

Hope you are having a lovely Easter and that the Easter bunny has visited you.  The weather here in Sydney has been perfect Autumn - my favourite time of the year.

Passing on an Easter blog from Richard, a friend of ours who hosted a Good Friday BBQ where the Easter egg question was raised.
Sweetly Clara
ps G and I have polished off one medium sized egg between us today - but it was dark chocolate which I read is not really too bad for you. More about that soon.


Were there Easter Bunnies when we were children?


Well there were certainly Easter eggs; but in our household these tended to be chicken eggs that we had either hard boiled or sucked (to make hollow shells ) that were boiled wrapped in onion skins and/or painted.

Confectionary eggs were those hollow hard sugar ones (the best) or chocolate (preferably with a filled centre) that my father had bought in the city. I also remember hollow sugar rabbits.


By the time I had my own children it was full-on chocolate. Emily was into delayed gratification and often still had a stash of last year’s eggs in the fridge a year later. All the kids were more into the mythology; and the Easter egg hunt; than the actual chocolate. It was like the reindeer on the roof and Santa at Christmas. As Emily can attest, one Easter night the Bunny broke our fence when he hopped into the back garden carrying his giant sack of eggs for every child in Sydney. Julia continued to provide a wonderful audience-participant for the hunt; even when the older ones were past it.


When I was really little in England (up to two and a half) rationing was still in place; so that I had not seen commercial sweets. When passing through New York on our way to Australia I was taken to a candy store and told I could have anything I wanted. I had no idea what they were; and (famously in family lore) chose a packet of chewing gum.


As both my parents are dead I can’t ask them what they had before the war; but Easter Rabbits and eggs certainly existed, as can be seen by the picture above.

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Babyboomers have a rich memory bank of stars

Hi there babyboomers

Some wonderful photos from our decades. I know that every older generation is convinced that the sun is setting on a golden age, but you have to admit we experienced a giant share of charismatic 'stars', many of whom are still in the limelight.

Favourites among these have to be Elton, with Marilyn and JFK the winner for intrigue. Least favourite is George - he looks much better now.
Clara

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