Welcome to this project of the imagination

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In a world with so much bad news, I would like to invite us all to imagine what good news might look like, what it might feel like, how it might happen. Do you have ideas to add or share? I invite you to contribute links to this blog in the comments section. If I like them, I will add them to future posts. Meanwhile, sit back and enjoy with me images of a world not yet created, that could be. It is in our hands. The story we tell ourselves is so much of the story we live. 

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