Halcyon Imagines

Imagining a worldwide, peaceful "civilian surge"...

Some call it The Shift, others call it Blessed Unrest, and still others talk of a "civilian surge" - the idea that around the world people who have hugely different access to opportunities and wealth nonetheless inhabit an increasingly common environment in which mobile and other emerging technologies can tell protestors and poor farmers and street kids about how various aspects of their life could be improved.

Imagining living in the moment...

 

...as the only way to really find inner peace.

Imagining (yes, yet again, but is it wrong to keep trying?) an end to war

The passing of Harry Patch truly marks the end of an era.  Harry, on behalf of so many millions of others who paid the ultimate sacrifice between 1914-18 (and during all conflicts since) urged us to prefer peace to war.

Harry, be at peace evermore.  We will remember you.  And perhaps an end to war is possible, after all.