The term "compassion" has fallen out of touch with reality, argues journalist Krista Tippett, who deconstructs the meaning of compassion through stories, and proposes a new definition, linking it with kindness, "curiosity without assumptions", empathy, forgiveness, beauty, generosity and presence.
...just for one day. Life In A Day was a historic global experiment to create a user-generated feature film shot in a single day, July 24 2010.
"He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth", so said Goethe, as quoted in Jostein Gaarder's philosophy primer-cum-mystery novel Sophie's World.
Like AC Grayling cutting across the "-ologies", Halcyon is convinced that our framework for making sense of the world is best underpinned by a strong grounding in historical narrative.
One example: without such interdisciplinary curiosity, how could we appreciate why Tolstoy had Pierre felt that he must try and kill Napoleon, even while Beethoven and many of the 19th century Romantic intelligentsia were waiting in the wings in adoration of the little corporal?
...and concentrating instead on the "long news", i.e. the stories that may still be important years, decades, even centuries from now.
Real Lives allows us to imagine ourselves as another of Earth's almost 7bn inhabitants, undergoing life events driven by the statistical likelihood of them happening in real life.
