Roisin Markham

In asking the question how do we create a future worth living into? I am inviting others to open up to the possibility of a different future, to wake up from our perceived future and challenge ourselves to really imagine different. Between climate chaos, extinction of animals and biodiversity loss, global pandemics, growing polarity of political and lived values it can all seem very bleak and difficult.

But this is only one reality. The only thing that is really real is right now. What’s behind us in the past is gone. So the next thing you do is not reality yet, it is your projected reality.

This evening on a zoom call, as a story of hope I shared how I bumped into John Gribbin’s Six impossible things book discovered from a photo of a pile of books shared on Twitter.

The work and connections that have flowed from following the energy from a wonderful Alice and Wonderland quote. The author is a science writer, an astrophysicist and makes quantum physics accessible to normal people. His conclusions are melting my head at the moment especially number 1 and 6; the word does not exist until you look at it & the future influences the past.

The quote resonates with this year for others and myself, when I share it people really respond to it those familiar with it nod and smile big smiles. It uncovers something with a flourish.

But it begs the question… what if we could all imagine 6 impossible things daily?

How might we use our imaginations? How would it change our lives?

Would it create deeper connections within? Some believe we can’t get to our imaginations without being deeply connected to ourselves.

But what other changes could actively imagining different things, all sorts of things – what could it bring to our relationships with others? Would it dissolve woulda, coulda, shoulda? Would it hold the polarities of politics? The complexity, the hurt? Would our imaginations let us dream other ways to do things? To shift our current social and economic patterns to different systems? How can we derisk our impact on the planet, on nature, on all beings that inhabit the earth.
Might using our imaginations really free us from constraints we have created, constructs, social paradigms that are no longer working or relevant?

When people are in crisis and stressed its difficult to open up to creativity. A global pandemic has stressed us out and made our daily lives very uncertain. We grieve what we have lost. In that space left by grief, by loss nature offers us emptiness. I sense COVID19 has shrunk us, back into ourselves, away from each other.

Can we use that emptiness to heal, to dream, to imagine?

It feels like we need to make space for our imaginations to flourish…