11/15/69

just checked

http://www.intellicast.com/Local/History.aspx?location=USOH0188

there was a record low for November 15th set in 1969 for Cincinnati, Ohio...

20 degrees...

so maybe there was a freezing cold wave before Thanksgiving in 1969 and that inspired me to grow a beard...

40 years ago

just realized it was Thanksgiving 1969 when I quit shaving... my Sophmore year at Miami University... felt it was the first time I had a full enough beard to grow a real beard... don't remember the exact date... I'm thinking I was getting ready to go home for Thanksgiving and didn't bother to shave and then decided it didn't make sense to shave and then go out into freezing weather... ALTHO, I have that memory more from being on campus... I do remember getting up and shaving and then going right out the door into freezing weather thinking THIS IS CRAZY... having a wet soft face from shaving and then walking out outside in cold freezing early morning windy weather... feeling like my face was going to "crack"...

wonder if I could find historic temperatures from Oxford Ohio to see how cold it was in November 1969...

also remember how slippery "SLANT WALK" on campus would be... it would ice over and we'd watch girls all dressed up falling down... knew one hippie girl that wore golf spikes to class... we'd walk in the grass...

Nov

thinking about nature and nuture...

takes me back to my childhood... thinking of both nature and nuture aspects of my "shyness" as a first grader... both my bio-chemistry AND my parents etc...

part of the nurture is the socio-economic environment of my parents and grandparents and birth... we forget we're only a decade removed from WWII and two decades from the Great Depression...

I can see my birth into the 50's as still steeped in the superstition of religion and FEAR/WORK ethic...

whereas, can you see how the 60's tried to replace all that with the LOVE ethic???

Mary of PPM died recently... and I think someone else died... or something about
60's folk music... and thinking that I was influenced by the Vietnam War... my first Chairman at EKU knew the guy who wrote the speeches and coined the expression MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX for IKE...

4 interesting decades... 1930's, 40's, 50's and 60'...

I am surprised they all followed one another so quickly...

the next 4 being the 70's, 80's, 90's and 00's don't seem distinct in a way... maybe societies and individuals reflect just a few basic patterns that alternate...

altho the 70's are a "material" -ization of the 60's...
the 80's and 90's maybe the 50's...
then the 00's are back to the 40's...

and I don't know where Obama has us now... I wish back in the 60's... but I'm afraid of right wing Christian/Republicans getting back in office too soon...

I sure hope Obama is successful at getting re-elected...