A breath of fresh air recently rushed in, coming from an oft politically leaning source, Pineandlakes Echo Journal’s columnist, Pete Abler.

Abler strikes high ground with an outlook, as he sees it, for everyone coming together and building lasting peace for all mankind.

Summoning song lyrics by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, “Teach Your Children," Abler connects this song’s meaning to today’s national and worldwide strifes and chaos, writing that it is “… what I believe we (our total society) must do if we are going to reverse the course of division and hatred that appears to be taking control of our lives.”

From that same musical era, astride the 1960s counterculture, the Strawberry Alarm Clock‘s “Incense and Peppermints” lyrically tosses conflicts in the air: “Good sense, innocence, cr

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