Random Advice & Hippy Values
In Alphabetical Order
Show me the RANDOM Order

Accountability & Blame
Alcohol
America
Anger
Animals
The Animals We Eat
Arrogance & Humility
Art
Aspirations & Ambition
Attachment & Suffering
Being deliberate
Betrayal & Loyalty
Books
Brainstorming
Breathing & living better
& the Buddha
Candles & lightbulbs
Commercialism
Common Sense
Computers
Cooking
Creation, Editing & Human Pride
Christ...,
Dealing with the righteousness of others
Death
Desire
Drugs
Education
Experimenting
Family
Fear
Food
Friendship
Frustration
Gifts
Guilt
Grief & Loss
Hatred
History
Hope
Hygiene
Idealism
Integrity & Honesty
Kindness
Leadership
Love
Mercy & Compassion
Mohammed...,
Money
Music
My personal heroes
Nature
Neighbors
The Ocean
Parents
Patience
Personal Responsibility
Pets
Playing
Poetry & Clear Thoughts
Relationships
Relaxation
Repercussions
Religion
Sadness & Depression
Seeing inside people
Sex
Siblings
Shame
Television
Thinking
Thinking of Others
Tomatoes
Using the Correct Words
The Value of Things Past
War & Peace
What if it breaks?
Work
The World
Writing
Your Own Good Taste


I would love to publish a book with maybe 500 topics that people could actually buy in stores. Based on the response that I've gotten from being on the web since Jan. 97, I believe it would sell. But that is just a dream right now. -- Bill
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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.

Anyone may have a FREE copy of the entire text of Lilac's Book by going to the Download page.

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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