June 5, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Start something you cannot finish The point of having an Evolutionary Purpose, a very large goal, a loon shot…includes knowing that you might not be around to see it finished. An evolutionary purpose that transcends self in service to something larger than us ensures...
June 4, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs
Deviancy is the essence of culture In his magnificent little book, Finite and Infinite Games, James Carse raises the question of deviancy. If we follow the script, live in the box, conform to expectations, we impoverish the culture. Nature is constantly emergent....
June 3, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Future of Business, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Good intentions misaligned When we are working on big issues like ending poverty – any big systemic issue – we need to start with the biggest view possible, ideally, with the whole. In the interim, we may need to provide symptom care in the field. Food,...
June 2, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Seeking Relevance For what? Fame for fame’s sake speaks only to absence. To be relevant is to be helpful. To lighten or lessen a current issue. Those of us who occupy the edges might be relevant to those who are drawn to the edge. Or…we might shine a light on a...
June 1, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs
Heartbroken That Puffins are dying on mass because they can’t find enough food to consume before their migration, and literally starve to death en route. Heartbroken that a million more species will be extinct in the next few years. Imagine if one of those species...
May 31, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Fortitude To find strength that we didn’t know we had. Found in the tension between capitulation and intention. To dig deep into our marrow and pull the unexpected resourcefulness from a place of non-existence. Fortitude is a sure indication that the path we have...
