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The 52:52:52 project, launching on this site and on social media in 2025, will help you address 52 issues with 52 responses over 52 weeks.

This site addresses what's changing, at the personal, organisational and societal levels. You'll learn about key changes across more than 150 elements of life, from ageing and time, through nature and animals, to kindness and love...and much more besides, which will help you better prepare for related change in your own life.

Halcyon In Kaleidoscope features irregular and fragmentary writings - on ideas and values, places and people - which evolve over time into mini essais, paying humble homage to the peerless founder of the genre. The kaleidoscope is Halcyon's prime metaphor, viewing the world through ever-moving lenses.

A Mundane Comedy is Dom Kelleher's new book, which will be published in 2025. The introduction is available here and further extracts will appear on this site and on social media in the coming months.

Listening

On Dawn

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If you've ever wondered why bird species sing in a particular order as the sun rises, rhe UK Wildlife Trusts and the Royal Horticultural Society, which run the Big Wildlife Garden competition, explain what you might hear and when.

Up at 5am on 17th May 2012; the Belgian dawn not only full of unseasonal frost, but also alive with an almost deafening inter-bird competition to see how could rule the airwaves. Need to do that again as the longer days have arrived in Spring 2016.

 

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Listen a hundred times- ponder a thousand times- speak once - Turkish Proverb

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No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why - Mignon McLaughlin

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Lots of people talk to animals, said Pooh. Not that many listen though. That's the problem - Benjamin Hoff - The Tao of Pooh

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Listening to the stories of others ... is a kind of water that breaks the fever of our isolation - Mark Nepo

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Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice - William Shakespeare

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Everybody's on a secret misson / Everybody's got their own ambitions / They would tell you if they thought you'd listen - Neil Hannon

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Everybody lies, but it doesn't matter because nobody listens - Nick Diamos