November 28, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
The question we must ask I am reading Naomi Klein’s important book, Doppelgänger – A Trip into the Mirror World, as she explores our descent into irrational, unhinged beliefs and the grip of conspirituality. To quote Kevin Kelly, “You can reduce the annoyance...
November 27, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Do the right thing It is hard to do the right thing. We might have to pay a high price. We might lose an election. Or friends. To stand for something and to hold the ground for integrity in all things is the least walked path. Walk the least walked path. I watch as...
November 20, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs
There is no place for silence Today, I write from the esplanade in Cairns, Far North Queensland, where we are spending a few early morning hours before our final flight home. There are trees along the streets, trash on the ground, and people walk across the pedestrian...
November 19, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
I love being right I have always loved being right. Often, my righteousness comes with a taint of smug superiority, especially when I am proven right. I have known for a long time that my righteous superiority is a fault line in my character. Righteousness removes...
November 16, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs
The ghost of the dead There was something inside me that felt a trip to Japan without a trip to Hiroshima would have been disrespectful. As we sat in the cable car to the top of Mt Misen on Miyajima Island there were skeletons of trees that had died from acid rain....
November 13, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs
Contradictions and polarities I am writing todays post from the Shinkansen train to Kyoto. Hurtling through the countryside at 300 kilometres per hour, finally seeing green fields after three days concrete. Mt Fuji is enshrouded in clouds. I am lost in the...
