May 6, 2024 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs
Safety My safety cannot exist when your safety is threatened. If I need to protect myself against violence from others, everyone is unsafe. No walls will prevent this. Walls are signifiers of an unsafe world. The only way people can be truly safe is when no one is...
May 5, 2024 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
To confront To stand in front of. To be facing. Truth is hard. It requires us to confront. Until we do, we are at the effect of what we refuse to confront. To confront threatens everything. Our worldview. Our carefully constructed life. Our history. Our identity. The...
May 3, 2024 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Syntropic Enterprise
I stand for humanity What does this mean? I was listening to a reporter speak about Kerala State in India, where a mosque, a church, and a temple are side by side on the same street. The people of Kerala cherish religious harmony despite the Modi government’s...
May 2, 2024 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Hard binaries Hard binaries are absolute. Very little in life is an absolute. Some absolute examples include. We are born. We die. We have placed absolutes hard binaries around many things because a spectrum removes simplicity and our perceived ability to control....
April 30, 2024 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development
Tangled in a state of being a victim Legitimate victims have bombs falling on them now and are caught in terrible events beyond their control. What we do with our being after the bad things that happen to us shapes our character. It is not a contest to see who has...
April 27, 2024 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs
The cost of standing for ceasefire In 1983 I traveled for the first time, to the USA. On my first day, wandering a shopping mall in Orange County, I had the deepest feeling that I was witnessing the modern-day equivalent of the fall of the Roman Empire. Waste, greed,...
