September 1, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs
10,000 Olive trees Last week, the Jewish Voices for Peace posted the following; To the Israeli government, even Palestinian trees pose a so-called security threat. This past weekend, in just three days, the Israeli military uprooted 10,000 olive trees in al-Mughayyir...
August 31, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Strength with age It is my birthday. This week in the gym I dead lifted 70 kgs, one and a half times my body weight. I pushed thirty kgs above my head. It is an amazing feeling to be strong and getting stronger with each year. My passport says I am 65. It qualifies me...
August 30, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Economies for justice, Syntropic Enterprise
People on every margin are lawed over Frank Wilhoit sums up our geopolitics precisely. Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not...
August 29, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Their war is different Today, my father is 92. He is mentally sharp and loving life. Still working in some way or another. I appealed to him a year ago to clean out the years and years of stored boxes of stuff and memories, one box a month. Steady and slow. Please...
August 28, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Dare to Care-Conscious Communication, Syntropic Enterprise
Words we use reinforce and animate the world I have been thinking about the words we use to describe parts of the world. The Global South and the Global North are examples. I live in the Global South literally, yet it is not the Australian people who are referred to...
