Purpose, Mission and Vision

The Vision: Short Version

Reinvent our reality. It's not that difficult. We just need to do it.

If we prefer, we can always continue doing it the old fashioned way, via wars and destruction, and misery and deception; aaaall that nooooot-so-funky jazz. Personally, I would prefer it if we just stopped that nonsense. Everyone, put your brainless weapons down and sit at the adult table here. You don't know how? Go to the Personal Growth section to learn, then come back when ready. Your seat will always be reserved here for you, once you're all grown up.

The Mission: Short Version

Design a blueprint for an alternate reality based on everyone's vote - a reinvented vote, that is your voice; your thoughts; your opinions.

We then put together transition plans for each part of the blueprint to move us safely and seamlessly from the status quo to our new humane way of living.

Once we're fully transitioned, we pile up all the national (and highly divisive) flags that have ever existed and make a nice United (E-Pangea? Only if we all agree!) embroidery with them.

No more incompetent governments, corrupt politicians, imaginary borders, inhumane cattle-like visa systems, migrants of any sorts, environmental carelessness, lack of access to quality learning and development, lack of commonality in sense, unnecessary hunger, malnutrition, poverty, homelessness, and <enter_your_thoughts_and_dreams_here>. This list can be endless and it is completely up to us to design it however we see fit! Like a Santa's wishlist, only we're all the Santas we need.

It all begins with a dialogue.

Why "One House"?

One House (pronounced 1 'Ouse without the h sound) is what many of my local, percussionist friends in Sierra Leone (SL) would say to me when parting, often after a djembe session together (pronounced Jem-Beh). We engraved this expression artistically on the djembe that we made together. Actually, they did the bulk of the work while I only got a pampered little crumb of the serious labour that's involved.

I learned on my very first day in SL how these young men were fearfully referred to asThe beach boys" by many middle-to-upper class expats, considering them to be local robbers and trouble-makers. I quickly discovered (by the time the weekend rolled in) that most of these young men had ended up on the beach only to clean it every Sunday in exchange for a place to stay and live, too ashamed to return to their mothers back in their native countries after having failed to acquire some financial gains that they had sought after in these foreign lands - foreign to them as to me, since many came from neighbouring countries in Africa.

This story extends to so many all over the world, told in various ways and structures, but all with the same heartaches, challenges and objectives; to make mom or dad <or_insert_loved_ones_names_here> happy and proud. I thought at the time that One House was only uttered by my Sierra Leonean friends, on the western coast of Africa. I later found out that the Vietnamese, all the way out on the Eastern coast of Asia, say "Mot Nha," which also means... you guessed it: One House! The Senegalese (French language) equivalent I had learned while living there was "On Est Ensemble", meaning "We are together".

It turns out that expressions such as these are common for folks around the planet, all sharing in a sense or feeling of unity. We humans seem drawn to this behaviour regardless of how little we may understand it. Survival in numbers, or tribalism, is one neuropsychological explanation. Regardless of how ambitiously some of us may be striving for excellence on our own individual paths and journeys, it seems as though the collective and the individual are not mutually exclusive entities. They may as well be as intertwined and interdependent as a human brain and its vital organs.