[OSList] childlike

[Jon Harvey]

Seasonal greetings!

 

As always at this time of year, I spend some time reflecting on the past 12
months and thinking about the year ahead. And as I have done for several
years previous, I have ‘adopted’ a new word in support of the ‘I can’
charity which helps children to communicate
(http://www.adoptaword.co.uk/index.php).

 

This year I have adopted ‘childlike’


 

It did not take me long to choose this word. And I want it to represent two
connected themes for me. Firstly the meaning of the word is about engaging
with the world in a trusting, playful, creative and appreciative way. In my
opinion, we need to do that more, far more. Sometimes, it seems to me, that
people, corporations and governments persist in using old ways to solve
knotty and wicked problems, even when those old ways make no real
difference. With a tad more courage and innovation, more childlike ways
might perhaps be deployed to sort out the problems more effectively. What do
you think? 

 

And secondly, but more importantly, we need a world that likes children
more! Recent events in Newtown, Connecticut and Nangarhar, Afghanistan,
though very different, just underline how our world does not look after our
children and young people nearly as well as we should do. Children are
simply too often the forgotten casualties of war, economic mismanagement,
bigotry and plain ordinary abuse. 

 

So I hope that 2013 will be a year when more children and young people get
to live free from harm and full of the joy of growing up into amazing
adults. Let us be more childlike (and child-liking) in how we create that
world, a world that would be better for us all.

 

May I wish you, your family, your friends and colleagues a healthy, happy
and prosperous 2013.

 

Jon

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