February 19, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs
Patterns of meaning making In one of my favourite books of the last decade, The Patterning Instinct, by Jeremy Lent, he talks about two people, one well-known in Western History, Christopher Columbus, and the other, hardly known at all, Admiral Zheng, who sailed the...
February 18, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs
Caring and anger strange bedfellows After centuries of submission, female anger is rising as a collective act. It is confusing to both genders. This strange emotion occupies spaces that have been vacuumed out. It arises with the force of a wave triggered by the...
February 17, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs
Wild oceans and the irrelevance of walls The ocean this morning was wild, all foam and force. Too dangerous for humans to play in. To live by the ocean is to learn respect. To know that no matter our human hubris, in that sea we are puppets of forces far greater than...
February 16, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
The Sacred Act of Parenting On this day 28 years ago, I was slam-dunked into the world of love for another human being that was beyond anything I had ever experienced before. Natalie arrived, not on my schedule, but completely and thoroughly on her own schedule. Not...
February 15, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
The Beauty of Constraints We long to be free. Free of the constraints. Free of the need to find solutions within a field that feels limited. Imagine for a moment those constraints as the paintbrush of your most innovative self. Instead of them preventing you from,...
February 14, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs
Let there be love Last time I checked, the world was not drowning in too much love. No matter your status, single, coupled, an anti-valentine kind of person…or whatever… the least we can do today is to make a commitment to LOVE. More. Make a vow today to...