February 7, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs
Resistance passivity and active participation Passivity is an agreement with helplessness. There is a potential for passivity to transmute to the status of the victim. Resistance is to fight, expending high energy to block flow. There is an undercurrent of aggression....
February 6, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Entrepreneurial lessons from the art of gardening I am not a gardener but I appreciate the art of gardening. There is a way of being in relationship to soil, seed, sun, rain, and life that requires a combination of attunement and trust. The soil needs to be prepared....
February 5, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs
Priorities We have more people and money working on social media algorithms seeking to manipulate our decisions than we do on solving clean water for all of humanity. How is this even mildly acceptable? How did we reach a place where the arms industry makes so much...
February 4, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
The Commons Our air, our water, the oceans, these are obvious commons. Pollution in one location translates to another. This is the globalism we must face. To throw away from me is to throw to you, and while I might feel free of my burden, I have simply passed it to...
February 3, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs
Humans are not machines Yet we have adopted machine language to describe ourselves. We hack, process, engineer, multitask, download, upload, are cogs in a wheel. Slowly slowly, by adopting machine words to describe ourselves, we have become removed from what it is to...
February 2, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
The Myth of Selfish Somewhere along the road of science we have swallowed the lie that humans are primarily selfish. That we seek to take, to win at the cost of everyone. While there are certainly people who operate from this modality, and our economic and governance...