July 27, 2020 | Beauty of Beginnings, Deliberately Developmental Organisations, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
Why threshold crossings need to be hard The precessional effect of an instant gratification world is the reflexive allergy to doing the hard work, often over hours, months, years, decades, to be able to suddenly produce something that moves people. People want to be...
July 26, 2020 | Beauty of Beginnings, Bucky Fuller-Critical Path, Personal Development, Personal Sustainability, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Life, aliveness, engagement with what is in front of us require disintegration My own journey to the bottom of the bottom of the very bottom took well over 10 years. Many times I thought I had arrived, that my undoing was complete. But no, there was more. I needed...
July 25, 2020 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Clutch at madness instead On this very rainy Saturday morning in Queensland, I wanted to share one of my favourite of all mystics and poets, Rumi. Credit to David, a Syntropic Masterclass grad and active part of the community at Syntropic World for bringing this poem...
July 24, 2020 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
The effort to hold up a house of cards So many people speak of the effort to change things. How hard it is. The amount of investment required to build the infrastructure. There is little inquiry as to the cost of keeping the current model working. The effort to...
July 23, 2020 | Beauty of Beginnings, Bucky Fuller-Critical Path, Personal Sustainability, Syntropic Enterprise
To put a stake in the ground. To declare A few years ago, emerging from a dark place, my self-imposed condition of emergence was to put a stake in the ground and no longer try to fix the broken, rescue those who thrive on cycles of rescue and disaster, or convince...
July 22, 2020 | Beauty of Beginnings, Bucky Fuller-Critical Path, Current Affairs, Personal Sustainability, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
We are verbs. The moment we noun ourselves we are lost We would rather be ruined than changed. Rather die in our dread than find the cross of the moment and let our illusions die. W.H. Auden. The Age of Anxiety The shattering of illusions does not come in a soft pink...
