November 15, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Dare to Care-Conscious Communication
Call it by name When the elites of capital and politics repeatedly get away with crime, corruption, rape, pedophilia and cruelty, we, the people, have many ways to respond. Here are three possibilities. 1. At the very least, to name it with precision. The mainstream...
November 14, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Governance for wisdom, Syntropic Enterprise
Rules, compliance and the authority to apply common sense Travelling with surfboards is not easy. They are not heavy, but they are long. This is now our fourth trip overseas with surfboards. We have learned a lot. Contact the airline first. Even then, record the...
November 13, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Empire to fall Departures and endings. Leaving and completing. There is a step into the liminal. One door is closing. No going back. It is simply the scale of the ending that matters; each night we end, and each morning we begin again. Many years ago, I realised that...
November 12, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Economies for justice, Syntropic Enterprise
Maintaining identity is a fiction Okinawa is uniquely itself. Not fully Japan. The indigenous inhabitants, the Ryukyuans, traded with China, and for a time, Okinawa was a vassal state to both China and Japan. It was forced to become a Japanese colony in 1879, and...
November 11, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Off the beaten track I am writing from the island of Zamami, in the Keramas group of islands, off the main island of Okinawa. There is an expression, Keramus Blue, for the colour of the water. It is true, it is a type of blue that has you weep with the beauty of it....
