December 31, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
What cleaning legacy do you want to leave I am supposed to write something smart on this last day of 2025. But I am out of smarts. Yesterday, my sister, her husband, my daughter and my partner spent a day cleaning the home – if you could call it that – of...
December 30, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs
Hussam Abu Safiya Has been held in detention for over a year. A pediatrician. No known charge. Held in unknown places, treated in an unknown way. By a regime that is known to detain health workers, a regime that is known to rape prisoners and then insist on the...
December 28, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development
Digital despair Digital despair is a new and sophisticated tool of class domination, where algorithms and artificial intelligence are methodically and imperceptibly used over time to spread content that fosters feelings of helplessness and resignation. Rezgar Akrawi...
December 25, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development
Christmas spirit The heat hangs like a blanket. The crickets are chirping, a summer sound. An early morning ocean swim to soothe gangled nerves and heated blood. I would have stayed there all day, if I had the option. Christmas in Australia is heat, sand and water....
December 22, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Governance for wisdom, Syntropic Enterprise
The context for our existence The solstice is here. I love the mathematics of nature’s cycles. There is a certainty to it that is missing from so many other areas of our lives. We know that on this day, for half of the world, it is the shortest day, and for the...
December 21, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development, Personal Sustainability
Let the storm blow through I read this quote earlier today. My mother taught me that the longer you keep that howl trapped inside your body, the more wolf you become, but she never showed me how to let the howl out. Womanhood is also this: a violence louder on the...
