November 3, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development
I will travel guilt free I have been blessed to travel to some amazing places. I visited Lake Como one early January, when it was freezing cold and quiet. Quiet is as I like it. I am writing from Sun Moon Lake, in the mountains of Taiwan. The similarities between it...
November 2, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Exotic blocks Yesterday we spent a few hours walking in Kenting National Park, on the very southern tip of Taiwan. Nature has a way of bringing us to our knees. At an elevation of 280 metres, huge maple and fig trees grow out of what was once coral reef. The porous...
October 30, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs
Turning off the world Sometimes it is good to turn off the world. To stop the news feed. To unplug from the drama cycle. To worry about lesser things, or not worry at all. One of the many reasons we chose to come to Taiwan was to understand how the people feel or...
October 29, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Dare to Care-Conscious Communication, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
A commitment to truth Requires the ability to sit in discomfort. To be wrong. To see our bias. To watch vigilantly our mindset, and challenge it the moment we know it has closed. A commitment to truth means we remain endlessly curious. Even when we long to be right. ...
October 27, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Syntropic Enterprise
How Infrastructure Makes Culture We think of infrastructure as convenience. Yet infrastructure is also the container that holds the context for everything that happens through infrastructure. When there are no footpaths, people do not walk. When there are scooter and...
October 25, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs
The magical differences of the human family Footpaths are not common in Taiwan. You do not see many people walking. Every road has a bike and scooter lane instead. Walking is not a thing. Although road cycling is. We haven’t figured out the cadence of shops opening....
