May 10, 2024 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Shut down and hollowed out I was speaking to someone this week and asked if they had ever had a relationship with anyone where the relationship was safe enough for them to express their vulnerability. They said no. No one. Four decades of living, and no deep intimate...
May 9, 2024 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs
Respectful of diversity I feel despair today as I watch the media doing its media thing and stirring hate. We must stop the rise of anti (insert the word of the day depending on the part of the world you are from) cry various voices in hand-wringing anguish....
May 8, 2024 | Beauty of Beginnings
Finding the humanity behind the chaos If we humans are to create a more beautiful world that our hearts know is possible, we must be able to come together, across a table, with our differences and find common ground. Human coordination, collaboration and co-creation...
May 7, 2024 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs
When they come for peace protestors join the protest First, they came for the peace protestors, and I did not speak up. Evil begins with small, seemingly innocuous acts—the kinds of acts we dismiss as too small or irrelevant. Upon the first act – for example...
May 6, 2024 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs
Safety My safety cannot exist when your safety is threatened. If I need to protect myself against violence from others, everyone is unsafe. No walls will prevent this. Walls are signifiers of an unsafe world. The only way people can be truly safe is when no one is...
May 5, 2024 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
To confront To stand in front of. To be facing. Truth is hard. It requires us to confront. Until we do, we are at the effect of what we refuse to confront. To confront threatens everything. Our worldview. Our carefully constructed life. Our history. Our identity. The...