February 9, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Naming the elephant We skirt around naming the elephant, as if to do so will protect us from facing it. We say nice things, we sugarcoat. The aim is to not hurt. To be sensitive. What we are actually doing is prolonging the hurt, extending the consequences of the...
February 8, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs
Privileged Is an awareness that we have an advantage. If I am close friends with you, I have a privileged connection to you that the person down the street does not have. I call you and you will probably answer my call. Inherent in conscious privilege is the...
February 7, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs
Resistance passivity and active participation Passivity is an agreement with helplessness. There is a potential for passivity to transmute to the status of the victim. Resistance is to fight, expending high energy to block flow. There is an undercurrent of aggression....
February 5, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs
Priorities We have more people and money working on social media algorithms seeking to manipulate our decisions than we do on solving clean water for all of humanity. How is this even mildly acceptable? How did we reach a place where the arms industry makes so much...
February 4, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
The Commons Our air, our water, the oceans, these are obvious commons. Pollution in one location translates to another. This is the globalism we must face. To throw away from me is to throw to you, and while I might feel free of my burden, I have simply passed it to...
February 3, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs
Humans are not machines Yet we have adopted machine language to describe ourselves. We hack, process, engineer, multitask, download, upload, are cogs in a wheel. Slowly slowly, by adopting machine words to describe ourselves, we have become removed from what it is to...
