October 5, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Power and our confusion with control as power Today’s subject is power. Real, authentic power. You know, that stuff we all have yet often misplace? The stuff that has been abused in almost all of our public and private institutions…where control is a poor...
October 4, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development
In the laboratory of science, I found spirit As a student of anatomy, I spent many days in the lab doing human dissection. On Day 1, we were all nervous. Would we be able to control our reactions to seeing a cadaver for the first time? The answer to that question was...
October 3, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
I advocate for atonement. And forgiveness. Every human makes mistakes. Mistakes are vital tools for learning and discernment. If we make the same mistake twice, we are fools, for the lesson of the first mistake has not been taken. If we make the same mistake three...
October 2, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development
Can I touch the centre of my pain? First published in 2014 It amazes me that I have been a guest of this world for 54 years. Like many people I speak to in my generation, we feel as vital as we did in our thirties, yet the reflection in the mirror sometimes shocks....
October 1, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
How we listen to the news Is different. If we are from the upper middle class, we hear a different story than if we are from the wrong side of the tracks. If we are people of colour, we hear something else. If we are from a particular tribe, religion or belief, the...
September 30, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Political theatre to pave the way for more atrocities The bully threatens. Bloviates. Speaks of history and eternity. Promises peace. Standing beside a man who cares naught for an entire population or, indeed, for peace. On this issue, where corrupt self-serving...