It's half seven and I'm swaying along with the other dozen or so commuters who didn't move fast enough to get a seat. We're like sea anemones totally vulnerable to the waves of motion as the train clatters north to the city.
In my hand, my trusted travel companion: my iPhone. The millennial's answer to Philip Pulman's daemons. She lights up, bleating my first message of the day:
"It takes more courage to examine the dark corners of your soul than it does for a soldier to fight on the Battlefield."
Deep thoughts for half seven, when most of my fellow commuters are nodding gently in and out of sleep or caressing their phones desperately seeking to beat their latest candycrush highscore. And a reminder for the challenge I have signed up for for the next nine months.
Working-learning-volunteering as part of the Year Here programme 2016, I'll be engaging with some of the most entrenched social concerns that face our society today. For homelessness to overburdened teachers, child poverty to the social strains of an ever ageing population.
It's not a brief for the lighthearted. Nor is it necessarily a recipe for success. It does, however, base it's philosophy on a well proven quote that a small group of committed people have been the only way that society has ever changed, and in fact it will always remain that way.
You can find out here about the ways in which these small groups of committed people have already started to make change.
In my hand, my trusted travel companion: my iPhone. The millennial's answer to Philip Pulman's daemons. She lights up, bleating my first message of the day:
"It takes more courage to examine the dark corners of your soul than it does for a soldier to fight on the Battlefield."
Deep thoughts for half seven, when most of my fellow commuters are nodding gently in and out of sleep or caressing their phones desperately seeking to beat their latest candycrush highscore. And a reminder for the challenge I have signed up for for the next nine months.
Working-learning-volunteering as part of the Year Here programme 2016, I'll be engaging with some of the most entrenched social concerns that face our society today. For homelessness to overburdened teachers, child poverty to the social strains of an ever ageing population.
It's not a brief for the lighthearted. Nor is it necessarily a recipe for success. It does, however, base it's philosophy on a well proven quote that a small group of committed people have been the only way that society has ever changed, and in fact it will always remain that way.
You can find out here about the ways in which these small groups of committed people have already started to make change.