This was something I posted locally ...... A Grandfather’s Wish: One Year of Global Harpmony, Starting Tomorrow ((24/7/26) A retired musician, teacher, husband, father and grandfather from New Zealand is calling on the world to try something radical for the next 12 months: peace, all the time. He never met his paternal grandfather. More than a century ago, that man died as a result of his service in the First World War — one of millions of ordinary people caught up in a conflict “created and never resolved centuries ago.” Today, that loss has become the seed of a global appeal. Ahead of 24 July 2026, he’s asking people everywhere to reject the everyday harm we do to each other and to the planet, and choose something different instead: connection, respect, and care. Why this date The date itself carries the message: 24/7/26 — 24 hours, 7 days a week, 26 fortnights in a year. His proposal is simple to say and hard to imagine until you sit with it: what if the world declared peace tomorrow, and kept it for a full year, around the clock? “There would be no need for war, no need for hatred or fears being weaponised to kill, destroy and maim,” he says. It’s an audacious idea — but he calls it “a majestic thought of great beauty,” one he’s turned into both words and music. The timing isn’t accidental. New Zealand’s indigenous Matariki season — the Māori new year, a time to give thanks for those who’ve passed and plant intentions for what’s ahead — has just closed. Tomorrow, he says, is a fitting moment to plant a new kind of seed: one of peace. The case for a “supertruce” At the heart of his message is a simple observation, echoed recently by astronauts and scientists looking back at Earth from space: this is the only planet we know of that holds life. And yet, he argues, we treat both each other and that planet “with abject disdain” — divided by grievances inherited from centuries past, rather than united by what we actually share every day: the same air, the same fragile planet, the same water that keeps every living thing alive. He defines “global harming” broadly — as any negative human behaviour, including all forms of violence and disrespect toward people and toward Earth itself. His proposed antidote is what he calls a supertruce: a full year of declared global harmony, built not on treaties, but on something more basic — people choosing, daily, to listen to each other. “Listening is the way,” he says. “Fears and problems are displayed, when people get to have their say — answers come, they grow, they stay.” A song for the cause To carry the message further than words alone, he’s composed an original melody — one that fits both the beloved original words of Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star and his new verses, note for note. The result carries that tune’s familiar sense of childlike wonder about the universe straight into a call for global unity: Twenty-four hours, seven days, twenty-six fortnights make a year, Paradise, already here, Global Harmony declare! Listening is the way, Fears and problems are displayed, When people get to have their say, Answers come, they grow, they stay! Healing hatred harming life, Let’s take five, let’s stay alive, A super truce, win win no lose, Global harmony we choose, Global harmony we choose. The invitation This isn’t framed as a government policy or a treaty — it’s a personal appeal, from one grandfather to the rest of us, to try something different starting tomorrow. Not perfection. Not the end of all conflict forever. Just one year — 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 26 fortnights — of choosing harmony over harm, listening over hatred, and care overdisrespect, for each other and for the only home we’ve got. - I will prepare the story and submit music soon ... kind regards in peace Neil B