October 1, 2021 | Beauty of Beginnings, Bucky Fuller-Critical Path, Current Affairs, Personal Development, Syntropic Enterprise
Just about everything we do is the result of another life It is deeply personal when it is us, or our loved ones. A life taken. Yet strangely irrelevant when it is some distant other. Or thing. Every day we thrive off of other life. Even vegans. From the food we...
September 30, 2021 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Deliberately Developmental Organisations, Syntropic Enterprise
The principle of exchange – reciprocity To receive gifts, as we all do…the gift of life, the gift of sunlight, the gift from earth that feeds, the gift of beauty… Comes with responsibility. If we are raised to believe that gifts of life and from mother Earth are...
September 29, 2021 | Beauty of Beginnings, Bucky Fuller-Critical Path, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
Raised on gratitude Imagine if we were raised on gratitude. Giving thanks for life, for our precious home planet, for bird song, for laughter, for tears… the central song of all our gatherings. Imagine if in our families we begin each day with gratitude. Nothing too...
September 28, 2021 | Beauty of Beginnings, Bucky Fuller-Critical Path, Current Affairs, Dare to Care-Conscious Communication, Syntropic Enterprise
Toxic Positivity Is it possible to be too positive? Too polite? Too nice? To never speak up, or speak out? We might consider the impulse behind being positive as the only response we have. Is it because we are opposed to the violence of act and word? Is it because we...
September 27, 2021 | Beauty of Beginnings, Dare to Care-Conscious Communication, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
The one very small next step The next step can be a decision to pause, to do nothing. Often this is as important a step as any we might take. Our addiction to doing something negates the power of sometimes doing nothing, to tune into the larger cycles of Kairos time....
September 26, 2021 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Personal Sustainability
Possibility, preparedness, acceptance, present time To be diagnosed with a terminal condition creates a dilemma. People have recovered from a terminal diagnosis and gone on to live years and decades beyond the diagnosis. We must hold a possibility. The truth is we...