Woodstock Summer of Love Is Now Literary Garden

AnneTracker| As an amateur futurist, I know that we can’t go home again. Actually, I did that in Nov. 2006 and high tailed it out of town in about two hours. The place was every bit as dreadful as I remembered it. Sorry mom.

This summer night in Carversville, I considered the idea of harmony between nature and modernity. It makes me smile to find all the seeds of what Anne of Carversville has become, stewn over that Carversville sky.

My imagination is always in high gear, so it didn’t take long for my disappointment in not seeing the August Perseid meteor shower that summer to take me to Woodstock and the summer of love.

Remember, I’m always the rose-colored glasses optimist.

Looking for a visual, I just stumbled into Got To Get Ourselves Back to the Garden, a blog post arguing that Woodstock actually unleashed evangelical Christianity.

This seems worth reading, particularly with the 10 missionaries about to leave Haiti and The Daily Beast writing a relevant piece, asking ‘Who Monitors the Missionaries?’

I never dreamed in the summer of 2007 that religion and women’s issues would become such a focal point of my journal. But then I only envisioned Anne of Carversville as a personal journal, not a major website.

Religion is such a powerful force in our lives, one that creates much positive momentum but often, also a force that holds women back.

If you told me in 2007 that today I would be openly asking religion to be accountable for its relationship with women, I would have laughed. In all honesty, I didn’t have the courage then, because I still worried about being ‘in trouble’ with readers.

It’s because readers gave me so much room to be myself, that Anne of Carversville evolved into the international women’s rights fighter it is today.

I’m rather shocked when I understand just how many Conservative and Republican readers read my thouhts. Perhaps this is proof that somehow we can all get along, as I dreamed in the Summer of Love, 1969. Read on Hope Springs Eternal for a Better World in My Summer of Love.