October 19, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development
Hello I see your pain We celebrate happiness as the holy grail, and in so doing, we make the emotional scale of human life wrong. Can we hold happiness and grief simultaneously? It is impossible to sit with someone living in the grip of an existential crisis or deep...
October 18, 2023 | Syntropic Contemplations weekly e-news Archives
🔍 Searching for Truth and Integrity as a Matter of Urgency 🚀 A simple proposition is put forward. It requires a majority to vote it in. Political tactics take the simple and turn it into a monstrous complexity. This is a deliberate ploy to obfuscate the simplicity and...
October 18, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Truth must be faced We can only make a future from the depth of the truth we face now. Ben Okri As Jack Nicholsons’ character yells to Tom Cruise in the movie, A Few Good Men. “You can’t handle the truth.” Consider the truth we can handle today. Can we handle that our...
October 17, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs
What else might unify us This past Sunday, my partner and I paddled on a standup paddleboard about a kilometre from the beach to be on the whale superhighway. Then we had to wait, hoping that some whales might pass by as they headed south, home to the Antarctic. We...
October 16, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Syntropic Enterprise
We must ask why I look at the world this morning, my heart still broken. My sense of hope in disarray. I look at the rise of the populist leaders worldwide. The hard right, anti-immigration, anti-diversity, anti-humanity for all who are not a facsimile of themselves. ...
