January 3, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Dignity Dignity starts with the knowing that all humans, all creatures, have rights to existence, that our simple nature of being means we are all to be treated with the respect of existence. In an advanced civilisation, where we are ‘civil’ as a society to all humans...
January 2, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Endurance Sport
Hard Training Many years ago I remember a house guest going out for a morning run and I wondered why on earth someone would do that. It seemed such a ridiculous activity. For the last 24 years, almost without fail, I have either run or swam (squad swimming in an...
January 1, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Our being is contagious The question, what is the contagion we are spreading? Do we spread inspiration, happiness, health? January 1st, sitting at my coffee shop with the Pacific Ocean as my vista, the sun on my bare skin, and two friends I had not seen in a long time...
December 31, 2018 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Sustainability
The cycle of life and death Getting to witness a new dawn every day is a reminder that the cycle of life and death touches us all. Cycles within cycles…inhale exhale. Dawn to dusk. Birth to death. The cycles remind us that we have the opportunity to begin again. Or...
December 30, 2018 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs
Time Remains quite the mystery. It can speed up and leave us breathless, or slow down with an ache to hurry. We can fall backwards into the abyss of yesterday filled with regret, shame, anger, blame, longing. Or we can be sucked into a never-ending vortex of tomorrow...
