May 18, 2024 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs
Great art is provocation There is a furore over a portrait of Australia’s richest woman, Gina Reinhardt, in the National Gallery of Australia, one of many images of the power brokers of the global stage painted by Indigenous artist Vincent Namatjira. Apparently, Gina...
May 17, 2024 | Beauty of Beginnings
Hot coals Navigating a relationship of sensitivities like racism and white privilege is tricky, particularly in the in-between time when a white person is invested in understanding their privilege and systemic racism. It is understandable, given that people of colour...
May 16, 2024 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Dare to Care-Conscious Communication, Syntropic Enterprise
My rightness erases you and your rightness I like being right. I was the kid who raised their hand to answer questions in the classroom because I knew the answer. I consider ‘being right’ and my need and like to ‘be right.’ Behind it is something broken. The need to...
May 15, 2024 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Syntropic Enterprise
The word for world is forest – Ursula K Le Guin. A forest, infinitely complex. Chaotic yet patterned. Demonstrating cycles, nothing unused. Even death is essential to life. Creatures at every level, from deep in the dark soil to those who cross the skies. ...
May 14, 2024 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
Are you strong enough to know you will be weakened by temptation one day? We all need guardians against our temptations. No human is strong enough to resist certain temptations, even if we think we are. Oscar Wilde said I can resist anything except temptation. The...
