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Essays, Memoirs & True Stories
Essays, Memoirs & True Stories
no rent, no mortgage (just borrow a saw)
Your house, your home, is the environment in which you’ll spend more time than any other. Because of this, it profoundly influences you and your peace of mind. It is the keynote to your survival.
June 1975Essays, Memoirs & True Stories
or, not by canned peas alone
There are some who say all you need to survive is canned peas. I don’t necessarily agree with that. The human is extraordinarily complex. Ask yourself: when were jackets invented?
June 1975Essays, Memoirs & True Stories
Survival In America
A carpet, anyway you look at it, is the best way to travel. You can take it with you anywhere — into the green forest or the courtyard of a mosque.
June 1975Essays, Memoirs & True Stories
Surviving The Symposium
We’re unsure whether to go. “I don’t want to hear about how we haven’t got much time left,” I lament.
June 1975Essays, Memoirs & True Stories
Survival Primer
We create the world with our beliefs. This is as true of global ecologies as of our more personal environment — our bodies, our homes.
June 1975Essays, Memoirs & True Stories
Transitions
I can live almost anywhere but my relationship with the animals and flora determine if I am at home there. The vibrations of any home, whether in city or countryside, are affected by the life that cohabits with us. And surely the quality of any life indicates and determines the quality of all life.
April 1975Essays, Memoirs & True Stories
Chapel Hill Journal
Just today I found that the dialogue with a book supersedes the lecture being given by it. Some compilers of books even work upon that premise.
April 1975Essays, Memoirs & True Stories
An Open Letter To Ram Dass
It’s been more than a year since we met. Unless your recall is better than I imagine, I doubt you remember me. We talked for an hour; I was, ostensibly, interviewing you, for the first issue of THE SUN. In fact, I just wanted to be with you, and needed a good excuse.
April 1975Essays, Memoirs & True Stories
Doing Business
I am interested in being part of a community business for a number of reasons. Basically, I am sick and tired of working for organizations which put some distant goal or task (such as working on a “very important” government research contact) above my own needs as a person.
April 1975Essays, Memoirs & True Stories
Treehouse: Growing Up, But Mostly Growing
I came to Tree House because I was under so much pressure at home I was about to have a breakdown. My family had broken up and I was living with my mother and my brother.
April 1975
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