September 3, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs
Too big to fail Too big to fail means failure is both certain and a must. The irony of neoliberal doctrine is that the preaching is about free markets, the ability for the atomised individual to rise out of poverty and make it and for businesses to become empires has...
September 2, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development
Surrounded by dolphins This morning, I was literally surrounded by dolphins. They were touching distance from me. A half dozen to my front, and an equal amount behind me. They were playing as dolphins do, at Watego Beach, Byron Bay. Catching waves. Surfing. For at...
September 1, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development
I don’t know When tangled emotions are jumbled with fragmented thoughts. Our reflexive responses do not make sense. Who am I? What is this striking snake that lies mostly dormant in me? Why strike now? I don’t know. It doesn’t make sense. There is no beginning thread...
August 31, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development
On this day A blue supermoon. The chance for Australians to recognise their First Nations people for the first time in the Constitution. The last day of winter in the Southern Hemisphere. Cyclones and floods in Florida. Another coup in West Africa, as colonised...
August 30, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Patronising Patronising – to be ostentatiously superior and condescendingly favourable. When I was a young parent my daughter informed me that I often made her feel ashamed. This came as a shock. It was not intended. By informing me of her experience I had...
August 29, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Surrender To surrender – To give up, to deliver over. On one pole, we have helplessness, inertia, complete lack of resistance, care-lessness, disempowerment. On the other pole, we have a fight-to-the-death, against all odds, endure, never give up. The extremes...
