February 20, 2024 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs
The creatures know The turn of the season. You can feel it in the air. A cool kiss after repressive heat and humidity. The light feels softer, brighter, and less burdened by water molecules. It is just the whisper of the possibility of change, likely to be overruled...
February 18, 2024 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development
Random and disordered reflections Many people seem to love their hatred more than they love feeling peace inside. Why is this, I wonder? Is there an addiction to drama? Or perhaps an addiction to feeling right and superior? I watch people’s reactions and...
February 17, 2024 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs
The sweetest freedoms of all New Zealand is a land of extraordinary experiences. The people are active participants in promoting the local produce. It is common for menus to only have New Zealand-made beverages. It helps that there are many craft breweries,...
February 15, 2024 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Hard binary Hard binary has no place for nuance or context. It is either or. Those who live by the code of hard binary live at one extreme or the other. Good or evil. Back or white. Our technological world works on a hard binary. Zeroes and ones. But where is...
February 13, 2024 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Syntropic Enterprise
Digital Nomad I am about to teach a class from a hotel room. I am sure this is not unusual. The TV has been set up to be my big screen. I have lights and quality audio. I have taught a class before outdoors, on a camping ground, with people walking by. Quality...
February 12, 2024 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs
Embrace quirk Australia and New Zealand are like cousins. We ‘cross the ditch’ (The Tasman Sea) almost as a commute. (It’s a three-hour flight). We can live in each other’s countries freely. We are both island homes. Yet the nuance in culture is beautifully...