November 20, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs
There is no place for silence Today, I write from the esplanade in Cairns, Far North Queensland, where we are spending a few early morning hours before our final flight home. There are trees along the streets, trash on the ground, and people walk across the pedestrian...
November 19, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
I love being right I have always loved being right. Often, my righteousness comes with a taint of smug superiority, especially when I am proven right. I have known for a long time that my righteous superiority is a fault line in my character. Righteousness removes...
November 18, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development
The confusing and the clear I am writing this looking at the sunlight over the mountains of Nikko Kinagawa on a beautiful blue sky day and a very cold morning. Last night, we experienced an onsen for the first time. A bath in the hot water of underground springs. Our...
November 17, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Comfortable with discomfort After seven days in Japan, we feel like we have crossed a threshold of ability to navigate and be with our experience. The first few days challenged us in so many ways. Confusion. Questions. Uncertainty. Getting lost. I cherish this...
November 16, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs
The ghost of the dead There was something inside me that felt a trip to Japan without a trip to Hiroshima would have been disrespectful. As we sat in the cable car to the top of Mt Misen on Miyajima Island there were skeletons of trees that had died from acid rain....
November 15, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development
Between the mundane and sacred Yesterday, we walked through thousands of Torii gates. In the Shinto tradition, the gates are the threshold crossings between the mundane and sacred. To deliberately cross a threshold that asks us to be fully conscious of entering the...
