Interdependence Day

We're all parts in an interdependent machine, believing we're all independent, co-creating in a world of cause and effect ... dependence to ... money, things, lifestyles, cultural identities, boundaries, social security and, and, and.

And yet we are one people, sharing common human needs, sharing one available space in time, with one air, one water, one planet to sustain us.

So, even a child can see the need for fairness, equity, balance and no need whatsoever for the disparity we see evident today, but what tips the scales, what could possibly swing the way the world is ... towards the world can be?

For me the answer is simple and I hasten to add that this is the 'simple' found on the far side of complexity as referred to often by Oliver Wendell Holmes.

The simple I refer to is a choice too, it's not imposed, it's a learned behaviour that will createsocial and environmental benefits beyond our wildest dreams.

Add a penny to each thing you buy.
Imagine everyone doing the same?
(Everyone currently being about 1.7 billion of us.)
Imagine this choice sitting alongside everything as it currently exists?
Millions of businesses, organisations, charities, NGO's and not for profits currently working independently, competing, right now.

Millions of opportunites for peace and equity a second, slipping by us as we maintain what we know at the expense of what we are yet to learn.

Paradigm shifts appear as common sense once they've occurred. But prior to they may appear revolutionary, especially when one looks at the change from a close perspective.
Standing back the patterns emerge, the hidden becomes apparent, the impossible becomes possible.

Look with your head in an engine bay and you'll see engine rather than the journey ahead!
Look at the component parts of a clock and you'll see parts rather than the gift of time!





Like the component parts in a great time piece, humanity has the potential to learn to become interdependent, to work as one, to connect and grow as a child grows from cells to an entire being in the womb of its Mother.

Penny On, the name we give to a project to unite humanity in common caring is simply the way of love in action, but more than a campaign or an organisation and more like a new philosophy, it becomes something everyone can do towards a world that works for everyone.
However, like any change be it subtle or cataclysmic, it takes pioneers to walk in front, to show it's OK, it's safe, it works, our pioneers are young people.

I could write down the full workings of the clock and risk blinding you with science and serve not one life, or I could invite you to imagine with me the simplicity.
And then through our collective actions ... the world changes.

The new born baby is perfect, the parents love for the new born baby is perfect, you are perfect, the world is working perfectly ... however ... be your view Zen, Christian, Muslim, Jewish or Atheist, the shared reality is ... a childs life is the future of our race, a childs life is the only real legacy we leave, a childs life is all we revolve around.

Our communities, be they at the wealthy heart of America or the desert tents of a refugee camp, all revolve around the new born child. How that child then experiences the world is then 'dependent' upon the environment he or she is born into.

And regardless of the environment he or she is born with potential, world changing, community changing, family changing potential. With the universe behind him or her, that change will be for the good of all. On their own that change could equally be to the detriment of the whole.

Caring for the self is the norm so alongside this caring for all becomes the antidote to the issues we co-create.
If taught by default to care for all every single day is simply about teaching or inviting "consciousness" and this in turn allows the world to change by that fractional degree that Jesus described as "in a blink of an eye".