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17 years ago I began a project in response to the hype over the Columbus Quincentenary Jubilee. I wanted to construct a sort of global collection of inspiring ancestors, an alternative, secular communion of saints, so I created a wall calendar in which every day is a holiday/feast day in honor of a "saintly" ancestor. Iwrote up the Chronicle of Higher Jubilation as an introduction/invitation to contribute.

I presented the idea to the Autonomedia Publishing Collective in Brooklyn, and it became the Autonomedia Calendar of Jubilee Saints. The 17th annual edition has just been released [link]

Back around 1996 my friend David Brown created The daily Bleed [link] , which expanded greatly the information in the Saints calendar. It is also still going strong.

Of late I have been considering a new project to extend the concept into the future, to include individuals who are still alive and kicking, to integrate it into a social networking setting, make it more interactive and participatory, a kind of club for breeding future Jubilee Saints. More on this to come. Any thoughts? I've been reading the series of books edited by John Brockman, based on the annual question asked of some of the world's leading thinkers over at edge.org [link] Currently reading the 2007 question, "What are you optimistic about?" This got me to thinking about how to carry these old projects forward in the spirit of Edge, The World Game, etc.

I would love to hear any ideas all this suggests to you.

For Life, Liberty, Love and Levity.

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