August 14, 2024 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development
This is a perfect holiday Surf for two hours at dawn. Coffee. Breakfast. Surf again. Lunch. Sleep. Surf. Dinner sleep. Repeat. Sleep like a dead person. Eat to fuel. Soaked in the ocean for hours. The water temperature like a bath. This is a perfect holiday. Spiced...
August 13, 2024 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development
Elephants, surfing and staying young Yesterday we met an elephant on the road. He clearly knew that if he stood on this road he would be fed many bananas. He was a happy elephant. (I was also a very happy human to have an elephant encounter like this, meeting him in...
August 12, 2024 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development
The adventure continues I am writing from the very tip of the teardrop that is Sri Lanka. The waves are crashing, the swell having travelled thousands of kilometres across the Indian Ocean. On our morning walk, the street dogs, motorbikes and tuk-tuks felt familiar,...
August 11, 2024 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development
On adventure, travel and change I am sitting in Brisbane International Airport about to embark on an adventure to Sri Lanka for three weeks. I am excited and feel incredibly lucky to be able to do this. I love stepping into other cultures with all the challenges of...
August 10, 2024 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs
We have done this before At the beginning of the automobile age, there was no handwringing and negativity about how we would build the roads, transport the fuel, create ubiquitous connectivity, and get people to buy cars with fuel available everywhere. We just did...
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...