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...
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,...