March 2, 2023 Creation Corner Column
50th Anniversary of "THE SUN" magazine
Endeavoring to "look at a sad, confused world and see it as holy," in the words of the founder and editor of the reader-supported (no advertisements!) magazine known simply as The Sun, Sy Safransky has often focused on the natural world in the published monthly periodical now in its 50th year.
Interviews with persons with a variety of perspectives have included those with the following, as a sample.
Robert Bilott, recipient of the Right Livelihood Award for his work on PFAS contamination.
Matthew Fox, author of Original Blessing. among other titles.
Barbara Kingslover, co-author of Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life; et cetera.
Bernie Krause, who has released more than fifty albums of natural landscapes and authored four books (Notes from the Wild, Into a Wild Sanctuary, Wild Soundscapes, and The Great Animal Orchestra: Finding the Origins of Music in the World's Wild Places).
Kathleen Dean Moore, co-author of Moral Ground: Ethical Action for a Planet in Peril.
Jack Turner was interviewed "on our lost intimacy with the natural world". He is a retired mountain guide.
Other interview subjects (such as Julia Butterfly Hill, Peter Matthiessen, et cetera) may be found by searching under the "natural world" heading for themes of agriculture, biology, climate change, ecology, plants, pollution and wildlife, at the magazine website "thesunmagazine.org".
Additionally often on the final page of each 50-page issue of the magazine can be found "Sunbeams", a list of quotations that dovetail with the theme of the interview.
The balance of the magazine includes photography, poetry, fiction, essays, memoirs, true stories, correspondence, and a section devoted to readers writing on themes related to their experiences having to do with a variety of topics, one per month, such as anniversaries, idols, privacy, in-laws, first love, appetites, holding on, doors, leaving home, breasts, the refrigerator, making ends meet, being stubborn, learning the hard way, tools, breakfast, the sofa, bosses, the backyard, swimming, high school, being alone, fire, right and wrong, danger, family vacations, clothes, acts of kindness, breaking the rules, bullies, in the dark, honesty, trying again, cars, noise, saying no, flying, being single, trying too hard, running late, keepsakes, the mall, fear, boyfriends and girlfriends, changing your mind, coffee, houses, at the last minute, trash, the bus, teeth, speaking up, security, never again, television, the phone, etc.
One might say there is something in "The Sun" to interest everyone "under the sun". Also see Ecclesiastes.
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