The title of my post is based on a song written and performed in the 1970s by the Steve Miller band. It was one of those songs that made an immediate impression on me. Based on record sales and “air time,” it evidently made a similar impression on many others (see “Fly Like An Eagle […]
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Posted February 1, 2021 in Monthly News By Joel Bowman, on 1 February 2021 February 1st, 2021 | Tags: 1970s, academic, adjustment, attitude, career, civilization, combat, department chair, deuce and a half. civilization, eagle, faculty, fat, luck, lucky, military, research, speeding, spirit, states, Steve Miller, Stoners, Vietnam, war | Category: Monthly News | Comments are closed Posted September 30, 2016 in Monthly News By Joel Bowman, on 30 September 2016 Humans like to think of themselves as the “Crown of Creation.” In 1968, Jefferson Airplane captured the irony of the human tendency to presume that we had achieved the pinnacle of the evolutionary process in the song, “Crown of Creation”: You are the crown of creation. You are the crown of creation, And you’ve […] September 30th, 2016 | Tags: 1960s, 1967, 1968, 1970s, and brotherhood, awakening, Berkeley California, change, communes, counter culture, Crown of Creation, Crystal Blue Persuasion, evolution, free love, Free Speech Movement, George Santayana, global politics, good, Grateful Dead, Guess Who, Haight Ashbury, Heaven Is 10 Zillion Light Years Away, hippies, human potential, If You're Going to San Francisco, Janis Joplin, Jefferson Airplane, New Jerusalem, Oakland Bay Bridge, path, Peace, Pema Chödrön, political unrest, politics, remembering the past, San Francisco, Scott McKenzie, Share the Land, social change, Stevie Wonder, the Shondells, Tommy James, Vietnam | Category: Monthly News | Comments are closed |
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