May 14, 2024 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
Are you strong enough to know you will be weakened by temptation one day? We all need guardians against our temptations. No human is strong enough to resist certain temptations, even if we think we are. Oscar Wilde said I can resist anything except temptation. The...
May 13, 2024 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Syntropic Enterprise
True rebellion is collective I went to see the movie Star Wars – the Empire Strikes Back – when I was at University in Melbourne, Australia. I was still a teenager. It was a 10 PM session. I was captivated. Completely. Lost for two hours in a world of...
May 12, 2024 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Syntropic Enterprise
Balming with love Working for, working with, working against. People, life, humanity. Designing systems that work for and with, never against. Being used or being useful. Knowing the difference. Refusing to use, or be used. Occupying the story of the victim, or...
May 10, 2024 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Shut down and hollowed out I was speaking to someone this week and asked if they had ever had a relationship with anyone where the relationship was safe enough for them to express their vulnerability. They said no. No one. Four decades of living, and no deep intimate...
May 9, 2024 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs
Respectful of diversity I feel despair today as I watch the media doing its media thing and stirring hate. We must stop the rise of anti (insert the word of the day depending on the part of the world you are from) cry various voices in hand-wringing anguish....
May 7, 2024 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs
When they come for peace protestors join the protest First, they came for the peace protestors, and I did not speak up. Evil begins with small, seemingly innocuous acts—the kinds of acts we dismiss as too small or irrelevant. Upon the first act – for example...
