December 13, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
When I dare to be powerful “When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.” — Audre Lorde A mother or father will step into the fire without thinking about themselves to save a...
December 11, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Dare to Care-Conscious Communication, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
A few relational frames that matter Every action has an effect. Do we consider the effect when we take the action? We are responsible for the effect as much as we are for the action. The majority of people and enterprises refuse to take responsibility. People write...
December 10, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development
On death My father’s wife passed yesterday. I was the one who gave him the news. My relationship with death vacillates, as I imagine it would for many people. Yet each night we long to sleep a deep and dreamless sleep, a mini death. Sinking into no thing land....
December 7, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Choices. Intersections. Mistakes My little dog sleeps at my feet. One of our chickens, Lilly, just laid an egg and, in her usual fashion, is telling the world how wonderful she is, chortling away. The heat that was going to arrive has gratefully been swept into...
December 5, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development
Holding it all together Or not. Sometimes we cannot hold it all together. It is too much. Emotions take space, and our biology has a limited amount of space. Squeezing emotions into a closed space will not work. Emotions will leak out and spill. This is why we cry,...
December 3, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development
Leave the world as light as you entered My partner and I spent the day yesterday cleaning house and supporting my 92-year-old father. Until a week ago, we had his partner to do most of this, but we have realised that she was not capable of doing anything, through a...
