May 5, 2022 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Sustainability, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
The softness that comes with too much of a good thing Last night I woke to the sound of dingo’s howling. The sound is very melancholy. Like a child suffering terribly. We knew there were dingos because one got into our rubbish bin early in the night and feasted on the...
May 4, 2022 | Beauty of Beginnings, Bucky Fuller-Critical Path, Current Affairs, Syntropic Enterprise
Spontaneously arousable Walking the beach late yesterday we stopped to observe a common occurrence, one we walk over every day. Little crabs digging their homes. Something they do twice a day on the low tide. Their work ethic, spontaneously arousable, encoded. The...
May 3, 2022 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
The classic Gordian knot I wonder how we can still live in a world where the threat of nuclear war exists? Where we assume our dominion over nature and earth – to take and plunder at our whim? Where we can blithely continue as the sea shores get eaten by rising...
May 2, 2022 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Syntropic Enterprise
Respect is the word I sit this morning writing this watching the surf break at one of Australia’s iconic point breaks deep in a national park. We have been here for a few days. There is a shark, we believe a grey nurse shark, of reasonable size, who cruises the...
May 1, 2022 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development
Once in a lifetime As I sit on a remote headland on the East Coast of Australia watching the light change, Venus and Jupiter appear to snuggle each other for the first time in one thousand years, blessed with a clear sky after a night of rain, and the winds now from...
April 30, 2022 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Sustainability, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Once in one thousand years The stars will align. Tomorrow morning Australian Eastern time, Jupiter and Venus will appear as one light. Saturn, Mars, Venus and Jupiter will also appear in alignment. Once in a thousand years! The time scale of the heavens is humbling...