http://gnosiscafe.com/gcblog Thoughts on Dreams, Life, and Spirit - by Anne Hill, D.Min. Sun, 14 Mar 2010 13:18:20 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://gnosiscafe.com/gcblog/posts-on-reclaiming/comment-page-1/#comment-8663 Blog o’ Gnosis » Blog Archive » American Tune Sun, 07 Dec 2008 05:27:47 +0000 http://gnosiscafe.com/gcblog/?page_id=265#comment-8663 [...] It’s one of those weird things, the hymns of your youth still live in your heart somewhere, despite all the things you learn in the meantime. Or rather, the feelings those anthems evoke live on. Of course, as Deborah pointed out recently there were really two Americas all along, and we only learned about the melodious one in those early years. When I became an adolescent and started to get cynical, I found a whole new crew of friends who shared my basic condition: being a shattered idealist in search of a new ideal to latch onto. But that’s another story. [...] [...] It’s one of those weird things, the hymns of your youth still live in your heart somewhere, despite all the things you learn in the meantime. Or rather, the feelings those anthems evoke live on. Of course, as Deborah pointed out recently there were really two Americas all along, and we only learned about the melodious one in those early years. When I became an adolescent and started to get cynical, I found a whole new crew of friends who shared my basic condition: being a shattered idealist in search of a new ideal to latch onto. But that’s another story. [...]

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