April 22, 2024 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Dare to Care-Conscious Communication
Everything lives in a context Context means the container that holds the text. Context is like a series of concentric circles within concentric circles, like a bull’s eye used in archery. The immediate context is held in a context that creates the conditions for that...
April 21, 2024 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Dare to Care-Conscious Communication
Rewilding language Our words create our world. In the beginning, says one famous book, was the word. Humans desire safety, dignity, and relevance. Yet we also need fields of creativity, spaces to be wild without doing harm to others. The language of suppression is a...
April 20, 2024 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Deliberately Developmental Organisations, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Building agency Curiosity is often intrinsic to children. When a child is in a risky environment, they might shut down their curiosity. When we are educated in an environment that teaches at, rather than asks us to inquire more, we might begin, slowly, to lose our...
April 19, 2024 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Dare to Care-Conscious Communication
Reading the signs As the magician moves her hands, you miss the trick. This is the plan. Your senses are seduced by the magical and miss the important. In the news feed today, many magicians are moving their hands, seducing people into reading the glamour and missing...
April 18, 2024 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Syntropic Enterprise
A trim tab for humanity I am watching the busyness outside. Construction. People. Congestion. Growth. This thing. More of everything. More and more. The word quiet pops into my head. I want quiet. I long for quiet. I can access quiet inside at any time, but that is...
April 17, 2024 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development
The Unexpected One minute, the direction is clear. The day planned. And, just like that, it becomes thoroughly unplanned. In that instant, everything changes. We learn, in these moments, to cherish the things that matter most. Yesterday, in the surf, someone said an...
