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Year of Living Deeply (Video Podcast)
“1969 is a year that shaped a generation.”~ Dr./Professor Robert Atkinson
We all have a year that was “The Year” of our life. The year we can never forget and remember with fondness and nostalgia. Perhaps it was the year we met the love of our life, the year our first child was born, or the year we flew-the-coup and came-into-our own. It is the year that brings an extra beat to our singing heart and a sigh to our smiling lips as nostalgia overtakes us.
Author Robert Atkinson had just such a year in 1969, which was a special year for many Baby Boomers. It was the year of Woodstock.
Do you remember Woodstock, the three-day music festival held on a dairy farm in the Catskill Mountains, northwest of New York City, between August 15–18, 1969, which attracted an audience of more than 400,000 people? Where were you during Woodstock which was 50 years ago? Were you even born? If not, let Bob Atkinson take you on a walk down Nostalgia Road.
Bob was right in the middle of the Woodstock dancing, mud, music, and intense feeling of belonging through emotional group-love. Yes, there was physical group-love too, but this is a family article so I will not “go there.” But, feel free to take a deep breath and remember, or imagine.
During Dr. Atkinson’s interview on the Kat Kanavos Show Video Podcast posted at the bottom…
