Great post! Love your work Tony, wished Facebook could say the same... In any case, I loved the 80s (mostly...) even wrote about it in my own book in progress:
My childhood home
Growing up in a small town called Knowlton in the 1970s was an interesting experience, to say the least. With a population of about 1000 inhabitants at the time, I was an only child, quite the loner and was always very in tune with nature and the forest, spending much of my free time wandering the forests around my house. I would climb to the top of a 50-foot pine so I could have an unencumbered view of our beautiful Brome Lake less than half a mile away. The swaying of the treetops from the mild summer breezes would give me some exhilaration but so would the breathtaking view and the thrill and danger of being so high up.
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3 My Christening
My Christening, parents to the left, godparents and grandpa to the right.
My Catholic upbringing was also an important part of my childhood, being indoctrinated into the worlds’ largest religion was not of my choosing, as it hardly ever is, and not much to my liking either. I always found the religious teachings so limiting, and suffering was also a constant in so much of their doctrine. Now, I can understand how suffering is a part of life even if I did have a relatively happy childhood.
<Indoctrinating kids into a Religion before they’re old enough to think or discern for themselves is a form of child abuse.> – Tony Sayers
(I even quoted you...)
Keep reading here: https://steemit.com/ecology/@stephanestp/deep-ecology-and-my-initial-awakening-pt-1
And just followed you also!
Steph
Thanks Steph will give you a follow, good to see you on here!