Thoughts of a day in the Sun! Patrick McGinn Blue, platinum curtains of late evening light drape along the redwood tree capped hills of this Northern Californial Valley. At a distance, a huge white light "W" stands out finely amongst the trees, standing for Willits, solar capitol of the World. A gathering is taking place here, more than friends meeting or times changing, this gathering is a stated change in history, a tight turn in mankind's curious sojourn. It can be felt in the charged, excited, inspiring atmosphere of SEER 1990, Solar Energy Exposition and Rally. This August weekend, when a new and unique tribe of gypsies are together to give homage and justice to new uses of an ancient form of heat and light from the sun. All day, strange new things have been crossing my path: squat, gull winged vehicles, parkayed with mosaics of blue, sand derived chips, wired to motors which drive thin bicycle tires, some built by students from far off places. Around me, exhibitors proffer gallant technologies for capturing heat, creating cold, dispensing communications and redirecting labors. The chatter of solar wisdom, experience, and inquiry emanate from every mind and lifestyle pattern. The division between the novitiate and the expert blend and intermingle upon these sun drenched fairground lands, embodying one of the most grand "learning missions" mankind has ever confronted. Young in mind and tribal in shared experience, these solar gypsies are magnetically drawn here, align with a new slave, harnessed to an unquestionably workable future, based on life "94 million miles " to the center of our solar system. A new team of horses, friendly and benign, able to be hauled and installed by any of you,is here. And that is what they are saying, "Any of you can do it." The learning mission destroys the myth; the technology simplifies and actuates the "new slave", and like good gypsies, estoling life founded upon joy, freedom and friendship, revel in their mission, strutting the beauty of solar cells on trackers, finely balanced wind machines, and storage banks pumping energy into Maytags, humming happily with full loads of levis, sloshing about in solar heated water. And the slave does not complain. The gypsies dance and twirl like dervishes of history, knowing the more the slave is asked to do, the more it loves it. In dreamy, wild eyed moments, it's unquestionably certain the gypsies are now ready to share their slave with the people of the planet, and in doing so, will make a major step toward making this planet more free, happy and healthy. August Night, Willits, California Patrick McGinn, Rt. 3, Box 33, Lamy, New Mexico 87540