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...
December 19, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
Hope and her two daughters “Hope has two daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are.” St. Augustine of Hippo Oh, I know anger so well. Almost every time I turn on news...
December 18, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Pause, breathe and step back onto the fray My emotions are a jumble. I watched myself in the surf this morning, as tears surfaced. The requirement for release clearly evident. I watched my frustration peak as I struggled to catch a wave. I noticed how I loaded this...
