May 5, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development
Give me real and raw 20 million Chinese people get plastic surgery every year, mostly of the cosmetic type, to enhance, uplift, and change their appearance. I see people, mostly young women, on the beach, getting the perfect Insta pose, the effort exhausting and...
May 4, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Hate loses In Australia and Canada, the people rejected hate. I always felt that if our Prime Minister could delay the election long enough, the Trump effect would play its hand. Our result is far from perfect. The government has not stood up to genocide, completely...
May 3, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs
Australian elections are easy America makes elections hard. For very political reasons. In Australia, voting is compulsory. What happens with compulsory voting is that you must register your change of address to be sure you get to vote in your electorate. But...
May 2, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
The tools we use to measure tell us a story How the neoliberal story loves to disdain the poor. Worthless. Useless. A drain on society. Lazy. I was raised on this story. I believed it until I found myself a highly educated single mother and struggling to pay rent. If...
May 1, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
The old vote My father is about to turn 92. He is a die-hard reader of the Murdoch media, which makes him, by default, a neoliberal. I used to be one of those. Australia goes to the polls this weekend. As I get older, I think about my vote differently. I want to be...
April 30, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs
Socialists in our everyday lives The economic anthropologist, David Graeber, said we are all socialists in our everyday lives. We help each other, share things and produce for mutual benefit. I would hate to live in a world where we did not help and care for each...