December 12, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Otherisation When we other people – politicising diversity and difference. When we make the other wrong. We do this in the school playground. You may have done it, or been the subject of it being done to you. The nerd. The ‘in’ group. The dyslexic. It hurts...
December 11, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Dare to Care-Conscious Communication, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
A few relational frames that matter Every action has an effect. Do we consider the effect when we take the action? We are responsible for the effect as much as we are for the action. The majority of people and enterprises refuse to take responsibility. People write...
December 10, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development
On death My father’s wife passed yesterday. I was the one who gave him the news. My relationship with death vacillates, as I imagine it would for many people. Yet each night we long to sleep a deep and dreamless sleep, a mini death. Sinking into no thing land....
December 9, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Syntropic Enterprise
Why big business needs regulation Before our surfing holiday to Taiwan, I rang EVA Air to check their surfboard policy before booking the ticket. I was not clear about what was on the website, and I wanted to confirm that our boards would be cleared to travel. I spoke...
December 8, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Syntropic Enterprise
My heart is heavy this morning I read about the public version of Trump’s National Security Strategy, and the white supremacist, fascist sentiment it expresses, and I feel sick to the stomach. What is European? What is America? What is Australia? Are any of...
December 7, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Choices. Intersections. Mistakes My little dog sleeps at my feet. One of our chickens, Lilly, just laid an egg and, in her usual fashion, is telling the world how wonderful she is, chortling away. The heat that was going to arrive has gratefully been swept into...
