December 28, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs
The death of binary Black. White. Good. Bad. Male. Female. Evil. Holy. Social. Introverted. Binary. All. And being so, contributing to fundamentalism in all shades. Light is a spectrum. Life is a spectrum. Human sexuality is a spectrum. There is no good, or bad....
December 27, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs
The question I am contemplating These are the things I am contemplating this morning from the safety of my home, free from bombs, war and ethnic cleansing. Can we simply be a stand for peace? Is standing for peace and not standing against genocide enough? When we...
December 25, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs
Gratitude for place To feel at home. The ease that comes with the exhale. Knowing the edges. Familiar faces. There is joy in this. After a year in our new location, I feel at home. Adventure keeps us young. Stumbling around in uncertainty, figuring out which way,...
December 23, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
We are fighting the wrong battle For many years I thought I was the problem. I was a failure. Do well at school. Check. Go to University. Check. Work hard. Check. And the road will be paved with a steady passage to success and accumulation. Not true. It is easier...
December 21, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs
When is one body too many? People all over the world are losing their jobs because they cry out for a ceasefire, they ask for the genocide in Palestine to end. Yesterday an Australian journalist from the ABC – our independent public broadcaster – was...
December 20, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs
Learning from the Mistress “Nature is the source of all true knowledge”. Leonardo da Vinci “We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.” Albert Einstein We walk on her without care. We extract from her endlessly. Cut her trees...