October 11, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs
On the precipice In any system, when pressure is continuously applied to the system, and the parts within the system perturbate increasingly violently, there will come a time when a threshold is crossed, and everything changes. This moment of threshold crossing is...
October 10, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs
Choosing our own facts We all choose our own facts. Some of us do it with reckless abandon, untethered from any consequence. Others are filled with indignation and shame when we realise that we have built a narrative and life on lies and myths. I think about the...
October 9, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Syntropic Enterprise
Edenic I learned a new word yesterday. Edenic. Relating to or characteristic of the Garden of Eden. Idyllic. Unspoilt. I read it in the context of a desire to return to a life in some fictional past where everything is Edenic. I would imagine in many contexts, Edenic...
October 8, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development
If you live in a glass house do not throw stones I remember this proverb from my childhood. I was taught quite a few like this. For example. Sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me. Chaucer wrote the glass house proverb in 1385 Troilus and...
October 7, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings
Confrontation is a powerful antidote Sometimes, I look up and my heart breaks with despair. How is it possible for humans to be so cruel? How is it possible for companies to be so greedy? How is it possible for people to be spellcast by narcissism and vainglory? I...
