September 1, 2026 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs
Under an illusion of superiority As I write, I am seated at the Surf Lifesaving cafe beachside at a little place called Crescent Heads in New South Wales. We just came in from a two-hour surf, starting at very first light. The ocean is currently empty of surfers as...
September 1, 2026 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs
A moment of peace Not a cloud in the sky. A slight breeze. The warm sun on my skin. In the Southern Hemisphere, the last day of winter, the eve of spring. Yet the weather is, like everything, topsy-turvy. I just read a quote that humans are a peculiar/terrible...
August 28, 2026 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development
Confused or uncertain I was asked in the Synergistic Accounting Class today to distinguish between confusion and uncertainty. Confusion From the Etymological Dictionary Latin confusionem (nominative confusio) “a mingling, mixing, blending; confusion,...
August 27, 2026 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Care of each other is on us As I was driving home from the beach this morning, I was thinking about people like us. This morning Meta decided to pay and pretend to fix some of its harms to children. In Australia, the data centre build-outs appear to be winning. Energy...
August 26, 2026 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Dolly has left us She was one of the few people who managed to be universally loved. I think about this. For some, to be universally loved is an aspiration. And I wonder, is it the way, in a world that kills the ‘other’ with such ferocity? We need people like Dolly....
