September 15, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
Making things I have always been a maker and creator. As a child, crafts like crochet and sewing. The ever-present writing. Baking, learning the craft of alchemy of weird ingredients, an apprenticeship in synergy. Over the last six weeks, my partner and I have been...
September 14, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Dare to Care-Conscious Communication, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Toxic gossip It works like this. Something happens. People often fabricate stories about what happened, without speaking to the people involved, asking questions, or verifying the evidence to support their claims. The more drama, the more the gossip. Gossip is...
September 13, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Sustainability
Dawn is free Look how light and clouds make such a raucous noise of colour? The lone surfer captured under the most magnificent show on Earth. Dawn is free. Unless you count the cost of leaving a warm bed, and perhaps a loved one. Or a day with a little less sleep....
September 12, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Syntropic Enterprise
A champion of liberty Quoted an old man in reference to a young man who lost his life yesterday. A champion of liberty. Sounds sweet. To be a champion of liberty. Yet, liberty for whom is the question. Liberty for all, or for a select few? It was never intended for...
September 11, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Economies for justice
Contemplating violence Every human makes mistakes. Sometimes those mistakes are weighty and have serious consequences. However, there is a difference between making a mistake and perpetrating an act of intentional violence. There is a difference between losing our...
September 10, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Governance for wisdom, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
Red lines Are supposed to be symbols of thresholds crossed that go beyond what is right, true and decent. When we cross a red line, we have stepped into the territory of wrong, bad, criminal, hurtful. As young children, we work the red lines to gauge how far we can...