Flower: Rainbow - July 4, 2008 - All Ways Free

Rainbow ~ All Ways Free

There's silence here in the main meadow from 7 am until 11:30 am on July 4, 2008.

Many people are sitting and a few are dancing around a pole in the center, hippie-like, colorfully and eclectically.

A naked woman, colored white, and with cloth around her neck, wrists, waist and ankles walks by very deliberately, staff in hand.


Some people are doing yoga, many are meditating. What a colorful harmonious disarray of Rainbows sitting in a flower-filled meadow in silence!

How does communication work in this eclectic gathering? There's a tuned-in-ness quality of communication that is both fascinating and unusual, ~ hippieness.

Last night in the Popcorner grove / kitchen~camp, there was an open mike which was far out. People recited poetry, much from memory, standing on a 2 foot high dais, that was wild - especially if you were tripping on acid. Poetry was spoken with such aplomb, and insight into the human condition, love, sensuality, passion and psychedelics, etc., that it turned my mind. It took place in front of a fire, with a long candle next to the reciter, who stood. You could get popcorn or some-mores (graham crackers, chocolate, and marshmallows, to melt over the fire) from its kitchen in the woods right there. And the popcorn came in many flavors - pizza flavored, barbecue-flavored, almond and coconut-flavored, ganga-flavored, etc. It was wild, reminding me of the Oregon Country Fair in around 1987, and even Reed College, but very beautiful in its sylvan setting, and with poetry.

And earlier in the afternoon there was a Rainbow Family circus that I videoed.


Hippie-mindedness in all its beauty, other-mindedness & freedom is here.

:)))

There are many social constellations here that emerged in the 1960s and have achieved a durability. And the welcomehome.org Rainbow website helped give shape to this gathering.