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Hope

On Martin Luther King Halcyon In Kal… 21 January 2018

 

Inspiring the world for 50 years and counting...more than half a century since Dr King spoke, and still as powerful and relevant as ever...

In a tribute programme from the BBC, global figures celebrated the legacy of Dr King by reading the words of "I Have a Dream".

On Recession
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Halcyon In Kal… 13 May 2016

 

Of Mice and Men - redux?  Chastening and often stunning images of the impact that global recession can have in our day and age might suggest so, yet the blooming sunflower might suggest too that hope springs eternal or, as Roy Harper puts it so lyrically, "through all destruction flies new dawn".

Man such sunflowers constantly emerge, displaying a wide variety of proposed "antidotes to the pessimism of the post-crisis world". If you'd like to hear constructive suggestions for our way ahead economically, you could also listen to the following podcasts:

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We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope - Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Spring is sooner recognised by plants than by men- Chinese Proverb

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It is in the power of everybody, with a little courage, to hold out a hand to someone different, to listen, and to attempt to increase, even by a tiny amount, the quantity of kindness and humanity in the world. But it is careless to do so without remembering how previous efforts have failed, and how it has never been possible to predict for certain how a human being will behave. History, with its endless procession of passers-by, most of whose encounters have been missed opportunities, has so far been largely a chronicle of ability gone to waste. But next time two people meet, the result could be different. That is the origin of anxiety, but also of hope, and hope is the origin of humanity - Theodore Zeldin

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He that lives upon hope will die fasting - Benjamin Franklin

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Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree - Martin Luther King Jr.

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Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live - Henry David Thoreau

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Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing - Arundhati Roy

Imagining tapping the untapped potential...

...of civil society and the individuals within it.  Perhaps this is a more hopeful way of addressing the current economic crisis than much of what we get through the mainstream media.  If we listen more to the surviving members of the "make do and mend" generation that got through the 1930s, WWII and its bleak aftermath, maybe we can learn again not just self-sufficiency, but also a way of pulling together towards a common purpose?