February 22, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Sustainability
Isolation is the enemy of wealth But first, what is wealth? Etymologically, wealth is well-being, happiness, prosperity and good health. Our current society has reduced the meaning to only one form. Financial. To be wealthy is to be whole and happy, not wanting in any...
February 21, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs
There is a storm coming And we know it. Literally as a tropical cyclone in my local area, and metaphorically as more and more people caught in the tangles of denial by politicians of climate change, money and corruption in politics, get out from their chairs and name...
February 20, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development
Smallest, simplest, consistently taken It is still there. This big goal, or this most worrying pattern of behaviour. The conversation you have had for years. Yet here we are, still in it, little to no progress made. What is the smallest, simplest step you can take...
February 19, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs
Patterns of meaning making In one of my favourite books of the last decade, The Patterning Instinct, by Jeremy Lent, he talks about two people, one well-known in Western History, Christopher Columbus, and the other, hardly known at all, Admiral Zheng, who sailed the...
February 18, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs
Caring and anger strange bedfellows After centuries of submission, female anger is rising as a collective act. It is confusing to both genders. This strange emotion occupies spaces that have been vacuumed out. It arises with the force of a wave triggered by the...