March 9, 2026 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development
I wonder if we will ever learn I wonder how you restart after nearly a month? Like starting at any point. You begin. Over the last month, I have slept, lived from minute to minute. Explored Mexico. Driven through a Mexican cartel burning car road block. Witnessed the...
February 4, 2026 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Economies for justice, Syntropic Enterprise
Economic Statecraft Sounds exotic. Smart. But it is essentially bullying and blackmail. The use of financial and currency levers to get what you want, with the precessional effect being increasing hunger, homelessness and bankruptcy for the majority....
February 3, 2026 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
Its relational It is easy to disregard the stranger. To ignore their pain and circumstances. It is easy to buy meat from a factory farm when it is wrapped in plastic on the supermarket shelf. Forgetting the animal. Last week, as I hand-fed my chicken Stephanie, who,...
January 30, 2026 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development
Normal What is normal, I ask myself? Is there such a thing? When we were younger, we took more risks. As we age, this little rock of fear finds its way into our architecture. We don’t jump. Climb. Learn a new skill. Or throw caution to the wind. Normal is a...
January 27, 2026 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development
Crying over a chicken I am howling with grief as I write this. We had to euthanise little Stephanie, the chicken. She was such a fighter. One of her legs did not work, for a reason not known to us. We hand-fed her for nearly a week. And still she persisted. Even after...
January 26, 2026 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development
There is too much to take in My heart is broken. There is too much to take in. In random order… The recent death of my father and his wife and all that comes with that. The terrible murders of two people in Minnesota and the knife-edge that exists politically, where...
