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Essays, Memoirs & True Stories
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For three days last year I planted small trees
For three days last year I planted small trees and shrubs along Interstate 85 for $3 an hour. Mindlessness, talentless and eternal boredom became the key words filtering through my consciousness, as all sense of self expression and sensitivity took a back seat to survival.
February 1974
The Sun Interview
Dropping Out/Dropping In
Work on yourself first, before you work on something else. That’s kind of the basic idea. The Zen people say wash your bowl. The Sufis say clean your mirror. It’s all the same thing. Work on yourself first, then those other questions answer themselves.
February 1974
Essays, Memoirs & True Stories
Sy’s Space
More jobs in the last year than I can remember, and so little sense, through it all, of any purposeful endeavor, of meaningful labor, of real work.
February 1974Essays, Memoirs & True Stories
Sy’s Space
A cloudy, dreary day, sick with a cold, yet I want to mark the day, the year, to settle old accounts and begin something anew. It is what I am always up to, and I see how foolish it is, and how necessary.
January 1974Essays, Memoirs & True Stories
[Big cities may shrink]
Big cities may shrink to more manageable proportions because of the fuel pinch, some regional planners believe.
January 1974Essays, Memoirs & True Stories
Nobody Called
Chapel Hill Energy Task Force
Sweat suits instead of flannel pajamas, river canoe trips instead of a vacation in Disneyland — these are some of the changes in lifestyle “every thinking person” should make, according to Shirley Marshall, chairman of Chapel Hill’s new energy conservation task force.
January 1974The Sun Interview
More Baba Ram Dass
You start with the energy to be somebody, then use it to become nobody.
January 1974Essays, Memoirs & True Stories
Alternative Energy
Solar energy, many scientists believe, is adequate for all the conceivable energy needs of the world. It is safe and clean, but expensive. The main technical obstacle is bringing down the cost of the solar cells, which convert light from the sun directly into electric current.
January 1974
Essays, Memoirs & True Stories
[The best alternative energy sources]
The best alternative energy sources, according to Watson Morris of ECOS, are “doing away with present wasteful practices.”
January 1974![[The best alternative energy sources]](http://www.thesunmagazine.org/ext/resources/2020/08/1486591368_1-7-drawing-preview.jpg?1713555600)
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