May 3, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs
Australian elections are easy America makes elections hard. For very political reasons. In Australia, voting is compulsory. What happens with compulsory voting is that you must register your change of address to be sure you get to vote in your electorate. But...
May 2, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
The tools we use to measure tell us a story How the neoliberal story loves to disdain the poor. Worthless. Useless. A drain on society. Lazy. I was raised on this story. I believed it until I found myself a highly educated single mother and struggling to pay rent. If...
May 1, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
The old vote My father is about to turn 92. He is a die-hard reader of the Murdoch media, which makes him, by default, a neoliberal. I used to be one of those. Australia goes to the polls this weekend. As I get older, I think about my vote differently. I want to be...
April 30, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs
Socialists in our everyday lives The economic anthropologist, David Graeber, said we are all socialists in our everyday lives. We help each other, share things and produce for mutual benefit. I would hate to live in a world where we did not help and care for each...
April 29, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Do the hard things in a human way In every major decision, we reach a place where a set of moral or ethical codes, beliefs, or principles defines our next step, or not. Knowing our codes—the Pattern Integrity—those principles, beliefs, and values that are a threshold...
April 28, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Syntropic Enterprise
Poverty is a political choice It always has been. The wealthy need low-paid workers to do the shit jobs. A new study of some 50,000 households in 1,000 archaeological sites worldwide reveals that wealth inequality is both a political and governance choice. New study...
