Sy Safransky | The Sun Magazine #45

Sy Safransky

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Sy Safransky is founder and editor of The Sun. He lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

— From December 2023
Essays, 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 1974
The Sun Interview

More Baba Ram Dass

You start with the energy to be somebody, then use it to become nobody.

January 1974
Poetry

Untitled

“It’s too warm,” she murmurs

January 1974
The Sun Interview

Baba Ram Dass

There Is No Energy Crisis!

In a recent interview, Ram Dass, who moves and speaks with an economy of energy suited to the times, suggests that the energy crisis is, “like all trauma, an exquisitely designed opportunity to reawaken man.”

January 1974
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