January 4, 2024 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development
Why is this the hot topic of the day And who is it serving. How easily we fall into the drama trap, propagated by fourth rate media and stirred by the narcissists, monopolists, and power elite. Distracting subjects like who gets to use a bathroom, boats and borders...
January 3, 2024 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs
On the nature of oppression Oppression happens in many ways. We withhold access to clean water, food, education, health care, housing. We pay people wages that keep them in poverty, never able to get above the threshold of survival. We separate them from the majority...
January 2, 2024 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
Why a 100% cooperative doesn’t work for transformative change When we live by consensus we become the average. The edges, the wild ideas and innovators AND the laggards and cautionary are merged into the mean. This is where decay and entropy set in. Life and...
January 1, 2024 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
I am digging deep for hope This first day of January 2024 has storms, rain and lightning – all night long. Fireworks on the beach unable to compete with fireworks from the heavens. This morning I was caught on the beach in a downpour. Happily drenched. I am not...
December 31, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs
The myth of technology making our lives easier Sure, it is easier to drive a car than travel by foot or horse and buggy. And I love that the computer in my pocket gives me warning that it is about to rain. We fail to put technology into the context of the system that...
December 30, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs
Justifying atrocity There is no justification for atrocity. Not a single one. Atrocity is the easy route. Remove x to not have to consider again – x being a person, a community, an ethnicity, a forest, a river, a city. It is for the weak and vengeful. The...
