January 29, 2026 | Beauty of Beginnings
The waters of our soul The ocean never lies One day calm The next enraged Home to a world of worlds Pretty, then deadly She will embrace you, swallow you or spit you out And in her depths, currents move That few see For her surface entrances The Ocean never lies She...
January 28, 2026 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Happiness and despair, complementary pairs Much has been written about happiness in recent times. While I am a fan of being happy, why place the search for happiness at the centre of our existence? For one to know true happiness, one must also know the depths of...
January 27, 2026 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development
Crying over a chicken I am howling with grief as I write this. We had to euthanise little Stephanie, the chicken. She was such a fighter. One of her legs did not work, for a reason not known to us. We hand-fed her for nearly a week. And still she persisted. Even after...
January 26, 2026 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development
There is too much to take in My heart is broken. There is too much to take in. In random order… The recent death of my father and his wife and all that comes with that. The terrible murders of two people in Minnesota and the knife-edge that exists politically, where...
January 25, 2026 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Syntropic Enterprise
A hierarchy of grief Acceptable grief for some. Nothing for others. The asymmetry is the injustice. In my country, domestic violence kills nearly two women a week. In the state of New South Wales, there were 12 deaths of our indigenous people in custody in 2025. Not...
January 24, 2026 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Governance for wisdom, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Kleptocracy Let us call it what it actually is. A kleptocracy. To rule by a class of thieves. Coined in the early 19th century, this term describes a government where leaders abuse political power to personally embezzle or expropriate a nation’s wealth. As the...
