Its relational
It is easy to disregard the stranger. To ignore their pain and circumstances.
It is easy to buy meat from a factory farm when it is wrapped in plastic on the supermarket shelf. Forgetting the animal.
Last week, as I hand-fed my chicken Stephanie, who, for some unknown reason, was unable to walk, yet very alive from the body up, I came to love and appreciate her fighting spirit. She wanted to live, against all odds, even being attacked by a giant goanna. I stroked her, spoke gently to her, a chicken that had refused touch until her illness.
I felt, clearly, the threads of relationship. To flames of life connected, transcending animal/human language.
When it became obvious she was not going to walk again, we chose to humanely euthanise her. I wept for her, for her spirit.
It is the relationship.
Without it, without that connection, compassion and care are harder to find.
Yet we build enterprises where the relationships are secondary. We build lives where we keep ourselves separate. It feels safer. To not feel. To not allow the enormity of the relational dynamic to inform decisions.
Nothing happens without the relationship. The thread and field of relationships are the soil for the impossible to become possible.
Investing in the quality of the relationships is one of the best investments to make. Upon a foundation of quality, respectful and caring relationships, we build goodness and beauty.
A Syntropic Enterprise places the quality of relationships as a central focus of all we do.
In the end of days, it is the relationships that matter.
Photo Taken February 3rd 2025, Article published February 3rd 2026
