Released on: October 23, 2008, 6:28 pm

Press Release Author: Wendy Stenberg-Tendys

Industry: Education

Press Release Summary: Flower power speaks again when a would-be burglar frightens
an elderly woman.

Press Release Body: In the United Kingdom a burglar broke into a home to find an
elderly woman in the house. The burglar fled the scene empty handed, leaving behind
a badly shaken woman. The next day, in a rare show of conscience, the would-be
burglar sent a bouquet of flowers and a card to the 91 year-old. The burglar
apologized for having frightened the elderly woman, explaining he thought the house
was empty at the time. The local police are asking the man to turn himself in.

The language of love has long been spoken through the use of flowers,
(floriography). While this was popular in the Victorian period, the practice
originally started from ancient customs used in medieval and Renaissance culture.
Saints were painted with flowers that were the symbol of their virtues.

The power of flower language has not been seen since the late 1960's and early
1970's when there was a contra-culture of Flower Children, commonly known as
Hippies. They used the power of flowers to speak their message to the world. The
people, mainly in their teens and early twenties, were asking for a non-violent
change to society. They were fed up with the hopelessness and atrocities of the
Vietnam war and wanted freedom from the threat of nuclear war between the world
superpowers.

The Flower Children gave out flowers to policemen and bystanders. Their theme was
'Give Peace A Chance.' The Hippies practiced cultural and religious diversity. Many
of them embraced Eastern philosophies and religions. The Hippies showed their
rejection of recognized social conventions and institutions, through their use of
colorful dress, as well as by their actions. They commonly used soft drugs such as
cannabis to discover alternate states of consciousness.

A photograph taken for the Washington Post, of a clean cut looking teenager, dressed
in a turtle neck jersey, placing flowers in the end of guns belonging to policemen
on duty, became a symbol of the time, along with the brightly painted VW buses,
commonly used by the Hippy community.

Their non-conformity to established authority and sexual freedom is still an
influence today. The Hippy movement had a long term effect on vitamin taking and
literature, health foods, music, alternate and self-sufficient lifestyle, art and
fashion. From the Hippy era came the universal acceptance of homosexual, bisexual
and transsexual relationships. It was in the era of the Flower Children that Cyber
Space was born.


Web Site: http://winaresort.com

Contact Details: Dr Wendy Stenberg-Tendys and her husband are CEO's of You Me
Support Foundation, (http://youmesupport.org/about-us) , providing high school
education grants to children who will never see the inside of a high school
classroom, without outside assistance. You can learn more about this at Win A
Resort, (http://winaresort.com/blog/blog/)