November 20, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Living a charmed life I was speaking to someone recently who said they lived a charmed life. Yet they were speaking to me about their work, which they had come to resent. At work, they were taken for granted, exploited, rarely acknowledged and paid very well. As if...
November 19, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs
Wilful resistance Both of my parents are alive, one is 92 years old and remarried at 80, the other is 88, lives independently and drives. I understand resistance to technology. I am a fan of the Luddite movement, as we must be able to draw the line between real and...
November 18, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Economies for justice
A shark feeding frenzy Several weeks ago, my local surf break became a shark feeding frenzy. See the footage here with very Aussie commentary. I am in this very water most days. The sharks are always there. Just not as snappy and unified as they are in this video....
November 17, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Syntropic Enterprise
Replicating outcomes How easily do we fall into the trap of thinking we can replicate an outcome someone else achieved by following a sequence of steps that they followed? Rivers teach us this story. You cannot step into the same river twice. We must start with the...
November 16, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Economies for justice, Syntropic Enterprise
From killingry to livingry My mentor, R.Buckminster Fuller, introduced the terms killingry and livingry nearly 100 years ago. As a naval cadet, he was trained in ballistics. He determined that the precessional effects – the effects at 90 degrees to the goal...
