Linked inTwitter

The 52:52:52 project, launching both on this site and on social media in early 2024 will help you address 52 issues with 52 responses over 52 weeks.

A Mundane Comedy is Dominic Kelleher's new book, which will be published in mid 2024. The introduction is available here and further extracts will appear on this site and on social media in the coming months.

This site addresses what's changing, in our own lives, in our organisations, and in wider society. You'll learn about key changes across more than 150 areas, ranging from ageing and time, through nature and animals, to kindness and love...and very much else inbetween.

Halcyon's aim is to help you reflect on how you can better deal with related change in your own life.

Loss

Quote 1791

You're the one, as we journey from sun to sun, all the dreams I waited so long for, fly tonight, so long so long - from Frederick, Patti Smith

Quote 1790

When the roses fade, And I'm in the shade, I'll remember you. In the end, My dear sweet friend, I'll remember you - from I'll Remember You - Bob Dylan

Quote 1789

Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless --Thomas Alva Edison

Quote 1788

The way to love anything is to realise that it might be lost - Gilbert Chesterton

Quote 1787

The art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent, to be lost that their loss is no disaster......I lost two cities, lovely ones. And, vaster, some realms I owned, two rivers, a continent. I miss them, but it wasn't a disaster. Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture I love) I shan't have lied. It's evident: the art of losing's not too hard to master, though it may look like (Write it!) like disaster. from One Art, Elizabeth Bishop

Quote 1785

Never shall I forget the times I spent with you; continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours - Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)

Quote 1784

Look in my face, my name is Might-have-been, I am also called No-more, Too-late, Farewell - from Dante Gabriel Rossetti, The House of Life

Quote 1783

It?s reminiscent of an England that never existed. We never did quite make it. An elegiac, shimmering Albion ? it?s there in touches of Blake and Priestley, notes of Tallis and Vaughan Williams, dabs of Turner and seaside postcards. It?s in Bunyan and Swift and Palmer. And if you think that?s embarrassing hyperbole, then it?s your loss - AA Gill, http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/food_and_drink/a_a_gill…

Quote 1782

If you said good-bye to me tonight, There would still be music left to write - from Billy Joel "The Longest Time"