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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.

Halcyon Inspired

Inspired - still - by a short letter to Time magazine in 2005

There is a crucial need for society and the world's political leaders to strengthen the role of values - such as love, respect, tolerance and creativity - and finance organisations that teach them. That could prevent or perhaps reverse the spread of hatred and violence originating from neglect and alienation - Ildi Trencsenyi, Budapest, letter to Time, 28/11/05

Inspired by warts and all

From Oliver Cromwell, famous for insisting on having his portrait painted "warts and all", to Silvio Berlusconi, forgiven his foibles by many of his own people because Italy is a "land of human nature", there is an ongoing trend in forgiving those who best display what Leonard Cohen called "the crack in everything, that's how the light gets in".

Inspired by those who stand up to be counted

Edmund Burke said that "all it takes for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing". People are still saying the same. Del Amitri sang that "they'll burn down the synagogue at six o'clock and we'll go along like before".

Now Peter Singer is telling us about the "life we can save" and that while poverty and its grim companions (disease, lack of education etc.) still stalk the earth, what right have we to sit in comfort rather than taking action, regularly and pro-actively, by e.g. tithing a certain percentage of our income on a regular basis to help the poor.

Our sister site, Halcyon Impacts, looks at many of the ways people are making our could make a stand, to help others, to reduce unnecessary consumption etc.

Inspired by those who seize the day

Sean Freeborne, in his own words, made an "ass" of himself while alive, and will make "ash" of himself when cremated, but who, for now, remembers his mother - dead these 37 years - with much love still, and who survived cancer through optimism and who now walks and walks every day with great pleasure as he doesn't know how many days - how many hours - he has left.