August 9, 2024 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
I love multiculturalism Watching the Olympics, the Japanese and Italian Brazilians in the men’s Park Skate, and the Aussie Japanese fourteen-year-old gold medal winner for Park Skate…these kids are the future. The winners and other placeholders celebrate as if they...
August 8, 2024 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Dare to Care-Conscious Communication
Bringing the joy back Watching the uplift and enthusiasm of the changed political scene in the USA is a powerful reminder of the years of absent joy and fun. Laughter. Some people are hell-bent on maligning it. But genuine laughter, a lightness of being unburdened by...
August 7, 2024 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Syntropic Enterprise
Too progressive I was listening to the morning news as I was driving home from my pool session. They were discussing Tim Walz, the Vice President pick for the Kamala Harris team. The reporter said there were concerns that he was too progressive. I was curious what too...
August 6, 2024 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
Challenging the status quo It is because life is constantly emergent that we must challenge the status quo as a practice. When we sit back and get into that comfortable space of same same, when we resist change in all areas – our learning, physical development,...
August 5, 2024 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Are you kind I am an immigrant I have lived on the threshold of homelessness. I know what it feels like to have the ‘heavy’ show up at your door to repossess your car. I know what it is like to walk the lands of the West and never feel looked at for my melanin. I...
August 4, 2024 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs
Insufficiently feminine Consider that no two snowflakes are the same. The mind boggles. Yet there is an insistence from the overlords of humanity that women must fit a defined category of sameness. Not too strong, bossy, muscular, or masculine. And as to the nuances...