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Random Advice & Hippy Values
Grief & Loss

It may seem contradictory to talk about letting go of attachment and then to follow up with grief. Life is contradictory and grief helps you recover from personal loss. Grieve freely. Suppressing grief delays recovery. Let tears come naturally, but do not rush them if they don't fall at first. Don't waste your time grieving over a lost material object or over a some abstract personal "defeat." An inanimate object can either be replaced or done without and you can overcome any defeat.


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Lilac's Book. A book for my daughter.    By Bill Orton.

Lilac's Book has been on   HIPPYLAND LOGO   continuously since January 3, 1997.

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Back in 1994, I wrote this book, largely in random order, as a gift for my infant daughter.   When I finished the first version of the book, I made photocopies and handed them out to anyone who was interested.   In 1996, I converted the text of the book into web format and thanks to the gracious and steadfast support from this mighty site, the book has been on Hippyland continuously since January 3, 1997.   As far as I can tell from webstats over the past few years, about 3000 people a year are visiting the page to download the full text of the book.   If just a portion of these visitors are downloading the text, then this free book is now in the hands of thousands of people.   This makes me feel that the gift is not just for Lilac, but for thousands of others, most especially for the teenagers and young adults who so often write to me trying to figure out their place in our world.

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