October 9, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Syntropic Enterprise
Edenic I learned a new word yesterday. Edenic. Relating to or characteristic of the Garden of Eden. Idyllic. Unspoilt. I read it in the context of a desire to return to a life in some fictional past where everything is Edenic. I would imagine in many contexts, Edenic...
October 8, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development
If you live in a glass house do not throw stones I remember this proverb from my childhood. I was taught quite a few like this. For example. Sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me. Chaucer wrote the glass house proverb in 1385 Troilus and...
October 7, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings
Confrontation is a powerful antidote Sometimes, I look up and my heart breaks with despair. How is it possible for humans to be so cruel? How is it possible for companies to be so greedy? How is it possible for people to be spellcast by narcissism and vainglory? I...
October 6, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Syntropic Enterprise
Integrity and principles It’s only a principle when it costs you money.” Bill Bernbach Will you stick to your values and ethics when the price is high? Or will you capitulate? How easy is it to speak of principles, values and ethics when life is free and easy? To...
October 5, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development
We can be the light If everything around you seems dark, look again, you may be the light. Rumi What an invitation. To realise that we can be the light. This is always our choice. It can be hard, when the darkness is heavy upon us, to find the light inside. But...
October 4, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development
The tension between We know great love because we know all that is not love. Pain, isolation, rejection. We know great beauty because we know all that is not beauty. Trees felled in their thousands, giant pits to extract something deemed more precious than the beauty...
