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. ...
October 15, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs
I am so sorry Last night, my partner said to me. “It is us, Christine, the human race. We are destroying the planet. Without us, Earth and all her creatures would thrive.” And he is right, for the most part. It is us, the greedy, rapacious Western neoliberal...
October 14, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs
Conspirituality For the last few weeks, I have been reading, learning and listening to understand a phenomenon called conspirituality. This term was first coined in 2011 by Charlotte Ward and David Voas. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspirituality The uniting...
October 13, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Sustainability
Walls “The worst walls are never the ones you find in your way. The worst walls are the ones you put there.” Ursula K. Le Guin I think about the walls I have built in my life. Walls to protect that also keep those with no intent to harm out. Walls that...
