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...
December 6, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Pollute the beautiful game FIFA is corrupt to the bone. A game that is loved on the streets of the favelas of Rio, in the dry dirt of the Moroccan desert, and in the ruins of Palestine, is now captured by politics that know only greed and cruelty. If we are to look at...
December 5, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development
Holding it all together Or not. Sometimes we cannot hold it all together. It is too much. Emotions take space, and our biology has a limited amount of space. Squeezing emotions into a closed space will not work. Emotions will leak out and spill. This is why we cry,...
December 4, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Economies for justice, Future of Business, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
The desiccation of our souls A small business relies on the relationship with its customers. The small scale means that when one person receives bad service or a shonky product, this can have an exponential effect on the whole business. When a large business gives...
December 3, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Economies for justice, Syntropic Enterprise
For AI to make a return on investment The investment in AI is ridiculous. For it to get a return on investment, there would need to be a loss of half the entry-level jobs on the planet, adding 10 to 20 per cent to the unemployment situation. This, or the AI bubble...