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 When Flower Powers Explodes Into  Fire Power!

After the kidnapping and death of her young son, Liz MacKay, 

a lonely young woman becomes embroiled in drugs, gunrunning and a 

plot to bring down the Black Panther during the Summer of Love.

 When Liz's son is kidnapped and murdered her husband abandons her soon after, blaming her for their son's death when her lies reveal she knew more about the crime. In disgrace Liz leaves Glasgow, Scotland in hopes of a fresh beginning, where no one will know of her shame. She arrives in San Francisco during the Summer of Love and is pulled into the scene of groovy young people and free love in the Haight/Ashbury.

Liz joins a commune. Her new family is a curious mix: Black Panthers trying to change the world, a Vietnam vet seeking inner peace, a flamboyant hairdresser ready for fame and love, a flower child and her drug dealer boyfriend who changes girlfriends often.

The dark underbelly of the Summer of Love is soon exposed and Liz finds herself having to make life or death choices.

Her usual alliance with roommate Toni, a Black Panther, brings Liz to a realization that brings the best out of Liz.

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JOLLY GOOD MAGICAL WORD!

I like words. Words are powerful. They hold energy! 

Words magically create a vision, provoke an emotion and motivate a thought.

When I find a word of interest in a book or hearing it, I roll it around my tongue silently, trying it out, whisper it into a silent room raising my voice my voice until it's spoken aloud, and as mother always advised, 'Don't use a word if you do not know it's meaning or how to spell it." 

Jolly caught my attention a couple of years ago. Not that I didn't know it, just didn't use. Seemed so silly to say,  "I'm having such a JOLLY good time!" until I played with the word.

Silly, jolly ol' me giggling away in different languages and tones, "I'm having such a jolly good time!"

Jolly: Full of humor; exhibiting or occasioning happiness or mirth; cheerful! To amuse oneself with humorous banter.

A magical image of ho ho ho belly laugh, silly giggly kids...

Enjoyed the word so much I gave it to Liz MacKay, my main character in my novel, City of Redemption   (A Novel about when Flower Power Explodes into Fire Power)

Liz is a lonely young woman, hiding her sorrowful past. When asked why she came to San Francisco (during the Summer of Love) she quips, “I guess like all the rest that come to San Francisco…just tripping around.” 

“Ain't we all just tripping.” Toni waited a second before asking, “Nothing else interest you here?”

“Nope. Just a jolly good time!” Liz said with finality.

Seemed so right for the lying Scot to please her inquisitor.

Choose your words carefully when you are creating your future experiences, attracting relationships and fulfilling goals.

How you speak reflects your intent of purpose, your confidence and clarity of your creations. When writing and speaking affirmations, prayers and spells use words in a short sentence to show you are powerful and clear about your intentions. Say aloud three times each sentence to experience where the power is for you.

                

    "I'm becoming jolly."    or     "I am jolly!"  

Which held a greater sense of being in the present? 

More on words next blog as preparation for a New Year 2015.

Have a Jolly Good Holiday Time even for a moment of life.

My prayers each day go to all in our world living in sadness, fear and disharmony.

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Flower power ignites into firepower when Liz MacKay, a lonely young woman, 

entangles herself in a treacherous plot and murder during the Summer of Love. 

“City of Redemption” is a vividly recounted story of lies, betrayal, sex, drugs and murder takes place during an unforgettable time and place in history, Summer of Love.

Ms. Ahern shares her time and experience, what she saw, heard and took part in during 1967 rebellious times.

“City of Redemption” is a vividly recounted story of lies, betrayal, sex, drugs, seeking love, and murder takes place during an unforgettable time and place in history.

It is 1984 and Liz waits to be paroled for the murder of former roommate, Ricky Martinez.

Is she guilty? Liz says yes. Her attorney, Toni Bordeaux, hotly disagrees and tells Liz she has paid her debt!

 

 

In 1967, partly to blame for her young son's death and abandoned by her husband, 

Liz leaves Scotland in disgrace, hoping for a second chance at love and life. 

 

She arrives in San Francisco during the Summer of Love to have a "jolly good time" with the free loving groovy people. She soon joins a commune. Her new family is a curious mix: Black Panthers Toni and her boyfriend, Bobby, trying to change the world, Sam, a Vietnam vet, seeking inner peace, a kindhearted, flamboyant hairdresser, Mason, ready for fame and love, a flower child named Cat, and her callous drug dealing boyfriend, Ricky, who loves his girlfriends then quickly tosses them aside.

At first, Liz is happy to have found a welcoming home, but as her new roommates pry into her mysterious past Liz's search for a "jolly good time" brings more grief and a worsening drug addiction. She becomes unwittingly embroiled in a plot to bring down the Black Panthers and sees saving her Panther Toni as a way to redeem herself for her part in her son's death. Sharing the plot to another roommate, she is told, "Keep your mouth shut." In a moment of passion, she seizes the chance to save her roommate. But can she save her friends or will she just watch her commune family break

apart? No one expects anything heroic from Liz, especially Ricky.

 

Ms. Ahern's novels receive overwhelming positive five star reviews on Amazon US, UK, France, Goodreads, Barnes and Noble and her website.

 

June Ahern's other novel, The Skye in June and book can be found at june ahern dot com

HAIGHT/ASHBURY - THE EARLY BLOOM

 My first novel, The Skye in June is a winter cozy read.

A story capturing San Francisco's history during the 1950's and 1960s days of  changing environs  

In it, you'll walk through the city's streets  -- down into the valley community happenings and up the many hills to homes and neighbors. 

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Visit the Haight Ashbury before the "hippy take over" when the neighborhood was realizing an emergence of the young hip beat crowd of artists and. musicians. Where the roar of Harley Davidson motorcyclists in their colors roared through the Haight. 

San Francisco was in the beginning of a big change and the MacDonald girls in "Skye" were part of it. Which one thrived the most during this time of the four girls?

The Skye in June has about 700  overwhelming positive reviews on Amazon US, UK and France, and Japan -  translated into  Japanese, Goodreads.com, Barns and Noble, in Comments on june ahern website, ebook on Smashwords.com. Paperback and eBook. Purchase directly from the author, June, for a personally autographed copy: email june@sfcoaching.com. 

Excerpt 

Chapter

THE DEVIL PASSED THROUGH - 1964

 THE COLD SIDEWALK chilled June and Mary’s bums as they sat on the curb waiting for the 33 Ashbury bus. The day had been pleasantly warm for late March, until the sun dipped behind the trees in Golden Gate Park and the ocean fog spread a chill through the Panhandle and up to Haight Street.Mary tucked the extra material from her bellbottom pants around her legs to keep the wind from shooting up them. June sat on her large black leather purse that held her schoolbooks. The short skirt of her Catholic school uniform (which, in the opinion of the nuns, was too short) did not protect her shivering white legs from the cold. No matter how nippy the days could become, the two never let the capricious San Francisco weather discourage their trips to the Haight. It was a fun time there. They met up with the young, hip people moving into the area who were bringing a whole new scene to the city. The mood of the Haight-Ashbury was rebellious with long haired young men playing harmonicas and writing poetry and tough Harley-Davidson motorcyclists cruising the street, some with Hell’s Angels emblazed across the back of their leather jackets. The scene was a much-needed relief from the girls’ restricted life. At home the sisters didn’t talk openly about their jaunts, knowing the problems it would produce.  (Cont'd)

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TELL YOUR STORY - THE FUTURE WANTS IT.

                                             BE A STORYTELLER
                            I LOVE TO TELL A STORY, DON'T YOU?

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Your life holds an interest to family now and in the future. Future generations will enjoy learning about how life was "back in the day" (when you lived) and some most likely identify themselves with you.

Leave your legacy

I recommend you journal about your life as a youngster, young to middle-aged adult and when the time comes, a senior. Tell about your first memory, how you felt going to school, about what you liked, were good at, not so good at and talk about your health. It's good to know what makes up our ancestors, body, mind, heart and spirit.

In time to come when I no longer walk this earth those of my future family will know some facts about me. I'm an author of four books. Each hold a piece of my personal values and outlook of life at various stages. In them I share my life history, even when viewed without a fictional story. My paranormal and parapsychology books will reveal my psychic life as a professional readers and medium: the joys, wins and tribulations, my work with the police and meeting ghosts and spirits.

My first book, a consumer's guide, non-fiction "The Timeless Counselor: The Best Guide to a Successful Psychic Reading", opened up doors to a different level professionally. I was on the TV show, "People Are Talking" as well as many a radio talk interview.  The other non-fiction is the a popular glimpse into the paranormal world, "How to Talk with Spirits: Seances, Medium, Ghost Hunts." Many of my personal experiences with spirits and ghosts are told in it and historical buildings events validated when records could be found. Learn more about San Francisco's past!

In the future there might be a child born into my family who has psychic abilities like me and my words can guide and comfort her/his grandmother, great-mother etc was as she/he is. My family can also enjoy seeing me live as I ghost investigate (Youtube -- if it's around) The Haunted Bay and Beyond.

My first novel, "The Skye in June" is about a psychic child, a little girl, and the challenges she must face. It also includes history about Glasgow, Scotland and being an immigrant. San Francisco during the 1950's and early days of the changing environs in the '60's. My heritage of born in Scotland, raised in San Francisco will learn about society at that time.

A goal is "The Skye in June" will become an audio book before I depart this planet. Many readers have asked for it. They want to hear the Scottish burr, enjoy the slang of the '50's, learn about San Francisco's "The Castro" before it was coined so. Do you know the proper name of that district? The famous store in that area? It's all in the story. The movie theater still thriving where most the neighborhood children spent on Saturdays? On Amazon.com you can read a sample of the book.

My second novel, "City of Redemption", also opens in Glasgow, Scotland 1966 before moving onto groovy San Francisco, 1967.  I wrote it as a screenplay for a Scottish actress I met in Hollywood (yes, actually that part of L.A. area). Afterward, I created a novel from the screenplay. The dark underbelly of the Summer of Love is exposed with Blank Panthers, sex, murder, and rock n' roll, of course! This too is a historical fiction and my future generation relatives will see how life was for me as a young woman growing up in  at that time. As I say, I was a product of my environment. Let the future family decide what they means for themselves.

What about you? What history of your life will you leave your future family? You can print a few copies or leave an ebook. It will become part of your legacy.

Take time to start your personal history book for telling your story has meaning.

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SUMMER OF LOVE 1967 - FAROUT TRIPPY TIMES

HAVE YOU BEEN EXPERIENCED? 

Ah! But are you experienced?

Have you ever been experienced?

Not necessarily stoned, but beautiful...

- Jimi Hendrix - 

San Francisco's Summer of Love in 1967 

I was experienced during that historical time and yes it was groovy and far out!! 

Recently, I went to the Summer of Love (1967) art exhibition at the DeYoung Museum in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. How many memories flooded back. GO! If you can, it is well worth the experience. Wear a flower in your hair. 

It blew my mind I actually lived that experience so many are curious about and interested in. As I say, I was a product of my environment, take it as you will when you read my novels (read more below about them).

A time and place in history where all who wanted were free to experience beyond what society told them to be. 

I was living in San Francisco before and after the Summer of Love and part of the Haight/Ashbury scene. Both my novels,  "City of Redemption" (set in San Francisco during the Summer of Love. Read more about it below) and "The Skye in June"(1950's to 1964- the early days of "the movement" as it was called) give the reader a view of social and political changes during those times.

Summers in San Francisco are usually foggy and windy with sunny days here and there. That didn't keep the flower children from dancing, often near naked, in streets (see Chapter 14 below) and Golden Gate park for the free concerts. 

Flower power ignites into firepower 
when a lonely young woman

entangles herself in a treacherous plot and murder 
during the Summer of Love.

My book, City of Redemption is an enthralling novel about the turbulent days of the 1960's free sex, drugs, rebellion and murder. Set in San Francisco during the Summer of Love the story's voice gives vivid  color and power to an unforgettable time and place in history. 

As fun and peace making as it was, it wasn't all love and flowers in the hair - oh no! The strong plot and dialogue of City of Redemption exposes the seldom seen seedy side of the Summer of Love. 

Posters Exhibit Summer of Love

In 1967, partly to blame for her young son's death, Liz flees Scotland to San Francisco. She wants to lose herself with free love among the groovy people. Instead, she is unwittingly drawn into the dark underbelly of violence and addiction with a callous drug-dealer and a treacherous plot to bring down the Black Panthers.  Her unlikely friendship with Black Panther Toni Bordeaux, leads Liz to redemption for her shameful past.

There’s something happening here.

What it is, ain’t exactly clear.

Buffalo Springfield's song, “For What It’s Worth”, were often taken up as a battle cry for the turbulent times. 

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Chapter 14

San Francisco

From the Haight to Eureka Valley

July 11 1967 – Midday

MIDWAY DOWN THE 33 Ashbury bus, Liz sat forlornly, looking out the window at the dreary San Francisco summer fog. Uncombed hair hung loosely around her face and landed on the shoulders of a wrinkled, white peasant blouse. She wore no make-up. Two teen girls sitting in front of her laughed about the stories they told to get out of school for the day. The girls, like so many young people coming from the suburbs for the day to be part of the action, lied to their parents about their whereabouts. Then they complained about how they hadn’t expected such cold weather in the summer, and wished they’d dressed warmer. Both wore light cotton blouses, long flowing skirts and sandals. Liz realized she didn’t feel the cold. She didn’t really feel much of anything except the growing need to make some money. Her bellbottom jeans, slung low on her hips, were tattered from constant wear. Patting the large leather bag on her lap, she thought of the red-beaded earrings she’d made that morning, hoping somebody would buy them today. 

... the parade of people dressed in tie-dyed tee shirts, jeans, long flowing dresses, and flowered wreaths. Here and there bare chests were painted with blue and red paint or big flowers. They were too stoned to feel the fog’s damp sprinkles. Banging on pots, they danced around wildly, and waved placards reading MAKE LOVE NOT WAR and U.S. OUT OF VIETNAM. Laughing and singing they were oblivious to the blocked traffic. 

The raucous singing drifted through open windows on the bus. The words conveyed the unrest of the young people in the United States.

There’s something happening here.

What it is, ain’t exactly clear.

There’s a man with a gun over there, 
telling me I got to beware.

(Cont'd in novel) 

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Hubby and me at the DeYoung Exhibit 6/14/17