January 27, 2026 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development
Crying over a chicken I am howling with grief as I write this. We had to euthanise little Stephanie, the chicken. She was such a fighter. One of her legs did not work, for a reason not known to us. We hand-fed her for nearly a week. And still she persisted. Even after...
January 26, 2026 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development
There is too much to take in My heart is broken. There is too much to take in. In random order… The recent death of my father and his wife and all that comes with that. The terrible murders of two people in Minnesota and the knife-edge that exists politically, where...
January 25, 2026 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Syntropic Enterprise
A hierarchy of grief Acceptable grief for some. Nothing for others. The asymmetry is the injustice. In my country, domestic violence kills nearly two women a week. In the state of New South Wales, there were 12 deaths of our indigenous people in custody in 2025. Not...
January 24, 2026 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Governance for wisdom, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Kleptocracy Let us call it what it actually is. A kleptocracy. To rule by a class of thieves. Coined in the early 19th century, this term describes a government where leaders abuse political power to personally embezzle or expropriate a nation’s wealth. As the...
January 23, 2026 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development
Finding the strength I think of the women in Gaza who have been under siege for two years (and all the years before), almost certainly homeless, almost certainly moving from place to place seeking sanctuary for themselves and their children. I think of the men and...
January 22, 2026 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Ludicrous Imagine you are a community or city, and someone from far across the oceans insists they know better how to run your community or city. They have no interest in consulting you, asking what you think, or even being open to the potential that your community...
