March 6, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Hand wringing and hoping for better I was out at dawn this morning, walking beachside as the winds from Cyclone Alfred practised their warm-up routine. The streets were quiet. No one was in the surf. Not even the pros who have flown in from around the world to catch...
March 5, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Sustainability
The house comes tumbling down My community knows floods. Only three years ago, whole townships and communities went underwater. But we do not know cyclonic winds that last for hours and hours. About 6 weeks ago, a short gust, lasting less than 5 minutes, swept...
March 4, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs
No exploitation After a week of thinking about surf, being surrounded by the beauty of New Zealand, hardly speaking to another human other than my partner, and reading novels, my brain is rested, and my perspective reset. Essential self and health care, especially in...
March 3, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Selective outrage The tricky thing about principles and integrity is that they need to be practised in all cases at all times. Situational convenience doesn’t work. Turning a blind eye because it is convenient is turning a blind eye to things your principles and...
March 1, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
The superpower of seduction I read a post just now by someone with a significant global following. Naming all the terrible attributes of Felon 47. Then saying that despite that, he was warming to this criminal. In 78 years, Felon 47 has not had to pay the ferryman. He...
February 28, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development
Chaos is the new normal Unpredictable weather, politics and leadership decisions. Changing minds. News feeds so gobsmacking and disturbing that we wonder every day if we are in a fever dream. Cruelty and genocide just another Tuesday. The sex traffickers and...
