Looking across the horizon

It’s good to spend time imagining what is just out of sight. What’s around the corner. What’s just over the horizon.

We can get stuck in busy-work - you know, attending to the cruft of life - and forget to engage our imaginations to dream of “what if”.

Imagine what could be just across the horizon, if:

• What if we all worked part time?

• What if no-one owned property?

• What if we all owned everything?

• What if we didn’t have private cars?

• What if we shared vehicles with our neighbours?

• What if we lived on the same street for 30 years?

• What if we lived with other people?

• What if we had a smaller house?

Of course, some of us spend all our time looking towards the horizon. Some of us even spend time climbing mountains to see further. If you’re standing on Everest, you can (theoretically) see over 300 kilometres, around 70 times farther than you can when standing at sea level.

But the grandest view is available to all of us, no matter where we’re standing. Just look up.

See the stars? Now you’re seeing millions of light years away.

Start from zero

Around here, we're nearly eight years into reimagining, redirecting, and rebuilding a city after a series of damaging earthquakes.

If you were starting from scratch, what would you do?

If you could rebuild your home, your career, your life from the ground up, what would you build? What direction would you go? What would you spend the rest of today doing?

The good things we currently have can keep us from the things we dream of.

Don't change your dream just yet, listen to this podcast.