Inspirational Stories – For amazing humans
Our work is dedicated to Darren: A wonderful Human Being.
I started this venture after a tragic loss of a twin brother and wanted to honor him by promoting a kinder more tolerant world.
Our stories are designed to inspire children, to be resilient, resourceful, kind and courageous.
The Billie Atoms character was born out of promoting our human connection through the atoms we share.
Our stories to inspire them to think about humanity and our atomic connections to everything and everyone around us.
We are Education and Safety professionals and our careers have been spent caring about human beings. Our hope is that people can be inspired to seek out humanity and see beyond the divisiveness we have created in the world.
We hope that our small contribution will be a catalyst for curiosity and questioning to seek out more knowledge around human connections.
We like to think of Billie Atoms as the voyager spacecraft, turning his attention to our little blue dot and reflecting on why we are so quick to hate, hurt and harm each other.
Carl Sagan succinctly summarises our philosophy in his “Pale Blue Dot” speech reflecting on the small spec of dust photograph take 6 Billion kilometers from earth by the voyager satellite.
Pale Blue Dot, by Carl Sagan
Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate
of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every “superstar,” every “supreme leader,” every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there — on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a
fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds.
Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great
enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.
The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment
the Earth is where we make our stand It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building
experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we’ve ever known.
–Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot, 1994