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It’s Not Too Late … To Nurture Your Hippie Soul

Breathe on the ember of what was

Jim Mura
5 min readMay 21, 2023

Did you have a simple time in your life? Where anything was possible. You were free, unencumbered by worry and fear? Living in the moment? Passionate, loving and finding your own path? Can you regain your hippie soul?

Author’s daughter (with ink) and a friend at Electric Forest Music Festival

Was this the time?

Perhaps way back in high school, or your early college years. Maybe the freedom was transitory, or an illusion. But no! It was real, you felt the joy and freedom down deep.

Me and you and a dog named Boo

Travellin’ and livin’ off the land

Me and you and a dog named Boo

How I love being a free man

How long could you keep it? I knew a free spirit in college. After graduation she moved to Hawaii, lived on a boat and and became a scuba instructor. Forty years later, she is still there. Owns a few boats now. Maybe she is that rare person who never lost her hippie soul. But for most of us, it ended much too soon.

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Jim Mura
Jim Mura

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