January 16, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development
Starting over Beginning. Taking from the past the skills, tools and learnings that are needed, composting the rest. Refusing to look sideways in comparison, knowing that to do so causes suffering. Gazing at the future with steadfast resolve. Discerning. This. Not...
January 15, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Sustainability
Small Pleasures Big Effects I have been injured and so my usual running has not been possible. Whenever this happens I appreciate the ability to walk. And when I finally get back to running, I appreciate the ability to run, all be it very slowly because of loss of...
January 14, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Brought back to Earth Sometimes we humans need to be brought back to Earth. Imagine. A leaf, such a common thing, is the world’s first disposable solar panel. We like to think that we are brilliant innovators and creators. Yet nature is way ahead of the game....
January 13, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs
From zero to one million Change is usually drop by drop, bit by bit. The wind erodes the rock. Lines and gravity have their way with our face. We agree to monopolise media into the hands of one man over the course 40 years. Little atrocities over time become heinous...
January 12, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs
Intellectual Humility There can be great delight in a robust debate, where there is a willingness to consider opposing arguments and where each party is open to consider that their strongly held position may be in need of an upgrade. It is hard to admit that we might...
January 11, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs
Real value To be worth something. Like beauty, value is in the experience of the exchange. Our current economy has conflated value to extraction and accumulation. How much we have accumulated, how much we have sucked up from the economy without giving value to others,...
