November 17, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Comfortable with discomfort After seven days in Japan, we feel like we have crossed a threshold of ability to navigate and be with our experience. The first few days challenged us in so many ways. Confusion. Questions. Uncertainty. Getting lost. I cherish this...
November 16, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs
The ghost of the dead There was something inside me that felt a trip to Japan without a trip to Hiroshima would have been disrespectful. As we sat in the cable car to the top of Mt Misen on Miyajima Island there were skeletons of trees that had died from acid rain....
November 15, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development
Between the mundane and sacred Yesterday, we walked through thousands of Torii gates. In the Shinto tradition, the gates are the threshold crossings between the mundane and sacred. To deliberately cross a threshold that asks us to be fully conscious of entering the...
November 14, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development
Harmony, order and self-development These are the three main pillars of Japanese culture. In Syntropic World language, following our lineage of the work of Buckminster Fuller, these elements would be called the Pattern Integrity of Japan. The image I share, a break...
November 13, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs
Contradictions and polarities I am writing todays post from the Shinkansen train to Kyoto. Hurtling through the countryside at 300 kilometres per hour, finally seeing green fields after three days concrete. Mt Fuji is enshrouded in clouds. I am lost in the...
