1969 stood as the final year of a tumultuous decade, shattering domestic tranquility with epic events and cultural upheaval. 
In January, The Beatles gave their final public performance on the rooftop of Apple Corps in London. In July, NASA’s Apollo 11 space mission launched Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong beyond earth’s gravitational grip to a successful moon landing, fulfilling President John Kennedy’s inaugural pledge “to go to the moon in this decade.” In August, Woodstock attracted over 400,000 rock ‘n’ roll fans, hippies, peaceniks, and sixties’ music icons to a four-day countercultural gathering. Joni Mitchell described the music and art fair as “a spark of beauty” where half-a-million young people “saw that they were part of a greater organism.” The Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam, in October, was the largest peaceful protest of a war in American history, flooding the nation’s capital and including more than 2,000,000 antiwar protesters nationwide. As the decade closed, the war raged on. Just months into the following year, the Kent State shootings shook the nation, bringing violent suppression of free expression to a U.S. college campus. On the fiftieth anniversary of 1969, seven professional writers join author Brent Green to share their coming-of-age experiences and vivid memories of that raucous, electrifying year. Are You Still Listening? delivers eyewitness accounts, personal tales, uncommon confessions, and fictional stories by eight witnesses to a transformative decade. 
One question resonates throughout this book: Are you still listening? The book inspires contemplation about our social and political progress fifty years later. Do we see greater national unity? Do we hear lingering discord? Do we sense progress toward equal treatment and opportunity for all? 
For those who experienced 1969 firsthand, this book will stir memories and invite reflection about a momentous year. For those who were born later and are curious about the myths and realities of 1969, the book reveals truths concerning a rebellious time and an engaged generation that proclaimed a new vision for America.

Are You Still Listening?: 1969 Stories & Essays

Literature & Fiction

Diamond, Jed

Orsborn, Carol

Cogswell, David

Dobbs, Greg

Green, Brent

Adler, Richard

Case, Robert William

Moses, Bob

Genre Fiction

Brent Green & Associates, Inc.

In Questions of the Spirit, author Brent Green guides readers through a thoughtful and inspirational journey of eighteen chapters. Each chapter explores a significant question about mortal existence, the nature of loss, and life's most difficult challenges. Evocative chapter themes include: What was your first experience of loss? Is there value in suffering? Have you been blessed? After each chapter, additional questions inspire further contemplation and healing insights. This finely crafted book includes poems, essays, and inspirational stories about those who overcome illnesses, misfortunes, rejection, and death of loved ones. The author also explores loss of a friendship with someone still living, loss of status, loss of self-confidence, loss of purpose, and loss of opportunities. Loss comes in many forms throughout life. Loss is a requisite part of the human experience. Loss often means pain, but loss also means growth. This book can become a pathway to greater spiritual awareness, a more resilient outlook, renewed faith, and hope in times of tragedy. It adds value with each new loss. And the book can stimulate deeper dialogue among those who gather to discuss mortality and the hereafter. REVIEWS "I have savored every page. It's almost like reading my own history. It makes the book so meaningful. Truly a tour-de-force!"-- Dawn Lehman, author, Smart Talk "Reading this book after experiencing a personal loss is like having your own support group with you all the time."-- Ed Pittock, Founder, Home Care Standards Bureau, Founder, Society of Certified Senior Advisors "Questions of the Spirit begins a much-needed process of asking questions that go to the heart of our denial of death..."-- Mark McGann, M.A., J.D., Hospice Chaplain, VITAS Healthcare "Each chapter is followed by questions for personal reflection or group discussion that will inspire readers to contemplate their own rarely explored beliefs and values."-- David Cox, President, Professional Testing "Brent is doing something very, very important here and the book is going to be of huge value to people."-- Harry R. Moody, Ph.D., Vice President of Academic Affairs, AARP (ret), author, The Five Stages of the Soul "Questions of the Spirit is a profound gift. I was so moved by Brent's story of loss and grief and how he has harnessed that with wisdom, spirit, intellect and compassion ..."-- Helen Dennis, Specialist in Aging, Employment &amp; The New Retirement

Questions of the Spirit: The Quest for Understanding at a Time of Loss

Parenting & Relationships

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