September 18, 2026 | Syntropic Contemplations weekly e-news Archives
Honest, transparent money, as part of a contribution and value protocol, lets purpose survive Money that is not made and recorded in full transparency will eventually rewrite the mission. It will move covertly through the system. Through incentives that reward...
September 18, 2026 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Economies for justice, Syntropic Enterprise
There is nothing natural about it The floods. The fires. We have called them natural disasters. But perhaps it is time to reframe our language. More and more, what we call disasters are the political outcomes produced by a system designed to extract to extinction,...
September 17, 2026 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Tools of domination Pressure Pressure (n.): from Latin pressura, from premere, to press. The sense “moral or mental coercing force, exertion of authority or influence” arrives in the 1620s — the word migrates from the body to the will. (Online Etymology...
September 16, 2026 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Holding the Shape Without Folding Integrity is this big, fat, loaded word. Like any word, so easy to say. So much harder to live. If there is a value I hold closest, it is integrity. Digging into the meaning it carries, from its etymological roots, meaning oneness,...
September 15, 2026 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
No stand is a stand Ed Sheeran, the singer-songwriter, wants to remain apolitical. No stand is a stand. Apolitical is a stand. It stands for safety. It stands for the desire to be loved by all. To not rock boats. Nice and safe and apolitical in a world on fire is...