June 25, 2012 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs
On the subject of Grant Hackett While I do not know Grant personally, I swim at his home pool, and watched him train for years. I watched him show up for kids, for fundraisers, always with a smile. He is a big guy, but he always came across as being kind and...
May 11, 2012 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Take a Full Time Role as a Garbage Collector Each piece of litter physical, emotional or mental Hurts Our mother Hurts me, hurts you Be vigilant Take a full time role as a garbage collector Wear it with gratitude This is our contribution to...
January 23, 2012 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs
SOPA, The Year of the Dragon, WWIII 2012 will be the year of people. Regular people. Mothers, fathers, youth. Tax-paying, hard-working, making ends meet kind of people. People from wealthy countries, not-so-wealthy countries, black people, white people, gay and...
August 24, 2011 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
On the question of personal power and surrogacy In the award-winning but chilling movie, No Country for Old Men, there is a scene between the psychopath Anton and a woman called Carla Jean, an innocent bystander. If you have not seen the movie, Anton Chigurh kills...
July 17, 2011 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Future of Business, Historical, Systemic and Political Context
Not Afraid Enough – naming ‘he who cannot be named’ “Instead of medicating ourselves on shopping, food, drugs, alcohol, eternal youth, gossip, reality TV, and intense narcissism as a way to avoid facing what we feel in our increasing fear, far...
June 13, 2011 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Syntropic Enterprise
Resurrecting the language of the sacred in a post-truth world When I was a little girl, I used to go to Sunday school. I don’t remember much about it, except that we would dress up for this occasion. At the time, we lived on the West Coast of Tasmania, where it was...
