Reply #194: Retrospect is amazing. My uncles (born in the teens of the 20th century) used to tip outhouses over

[Hekate]

Or so I heard. And they did a few other rural, small-town activities that irked the sheriff but didn't get a boy a zero-tolerance jail term in those days.

My black-sheep brother (born 1948) jumped out of a few windows when he was in his late teens and early twenties -- once with a girl's father after him with an ax. See how funny it sounds at a distance of 40 or 45 years? I guess. Maybe. He did decide to not drive high on LSD anymore after a flower-filled highway to the sky opened up to him while he was on a real freeway.

The rest of us sibs refrained from being that wild. And I'm one of the MANY people of my generation whose experience of the 1960's was tame and ordinary to a fault.

My son and daughter (born 1975 and 1978) did things in their adolescence that kept me awake at night. I will not go into the details, but it's not about you being born too late to act stupid. You (like me) apparently weren't inclined to be that stupid.

Hekate