2009's unexpected celebrities included the likes of Captain Sully Sullenberger and Susan Boyle, whose years of patiently working on their own talents suddenly came good, shooting them instantly to international attention, and who then accepted the spotlight, perhaps reluctantly, but with quiet dignity nonetheless.
Still, most genuine, unnamed heroes - among the disadvantaged, the carers and the quiet livers of today and of all history - remain in the shadows, so Halcyon will try to unearth and share many of their stories, and invite you to share your own, so that we can finally bring the most deserving into the light (although, if they're still living, only if they so wish, as of course much real heroism is accompanied by natural modesty).
As Stephen Jay Gould put it:
"I am somehow less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein
