August 27, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
The wrinkle in the idiot pursuit of perfection We each have a wild part of us. Raw, instinctual, unrefined. Able to live off the land, to survive against odds. It has a home territory. It shies away from anything that is not known, from crowds, and noise…it looks out...
August 26, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Thinking about resentment Resentment – To feel pain and distress, to feel again, in turn. Resentment is a spiral cycle. It feeds upon itself. If it were a food, it would be spikey, like nettles, and would taste off, but not enough to spit out. Because resentment...
August 25, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
The complementary pair of sin is awe Author Terry Pratchett’s character Granny Weatherwax said: Sin is when you treat people like things. Including yourself. That’s what sin is. I could not agree more, although I would add animals and the Earth to the list. Treating...
August 24, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
All a jumble on a Sunday morning Yesterday we watched the movie F1, starring Brad Pitt and Damson Idris. In my twenties, I was accidentally and inadvertently involved in motor sport, culminating in being part of the all-access team for the Le Mans endurance race. As...
August 23, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development
The bully, the persecutor, the oppressor A bully is a person who overbears another with threats and intimidation. They choose people who are open to threats and intimidation. The power differential often lives in seeming difference. Bigger, stronger, more able to...