December 23, 2020 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Personal Sustainability, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
Exploring the edges of enough What is enough? Enough love, enough laughter, enough beauty? Perhaps enough money, possessions, property? Rights? Freedom? When I was invited as a guest to the favelas in Brazil enough was very little and yet laughter led everywhere. At...
December 22, 2020 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Responsibility and consequence One week ago Australia was free of community transmission of COVID. Life was pretty normal. On Wednesday in Sydney two cases were reported. By that afternoon that was 5. Just as in the state of Victoria earlier in the year, these cases...
December 21, 2020 | Beauty of Beginnings, Bucky Fuller-Critical Path, Current Affairs, Future of Business, Syntropic Enterprise
Celebrating turning points Today is the solstice. In the south we turn back towards winter, in the north you turn towards summer. I spent the rainy morning climbing hills with my daughter, each hill peak an achievement, before going back down. 2020 is close to...
December 20, 2020 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Personal Sustainability
To remain young as we age is a choice Life is participation, engagement, learning, dynamic. Integral engagement – physical, emotional, mental, spiritual, community, cultural. Age often makes people more stubborn. More selfish. Wilful helplessness, rather than...
December 19, 2020 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
All plans of mice and men If 2020 has taught us anything, it is that plans are OK, but the moment we become attached to them working as we expected, the plan owns us. When a plan owns us, when our expectations are entangled with the plan unfolding as we want it, then...
December 18, 2020 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
The best way to live Chatting with a very long-term friend yesterday and she said that it was so good that my dreams have come true. I took a moment and then said my dreams had not come true because I had stopped having dreams a long time ago. This is not a bad...