December 28, 2020 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Personal Sustainability
Composting the personal There is something about this time of year that has me spontaneously cleanout. It is as if I need to edit, delete, clean, create space…as a natural impulse before the new year. The spirit of cleaning out and throwing away possesses me like a...
December 25, 2020 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Sustainability
Author your own special day This day means so many different things. It is my cousin-in-laws Birthday. It is a time when people feel alone, or crowded. When we might eat and drink too much, or go hungry. When many spend hours preparing food. Where we gather. For...
December 24, 2020 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Perseverance You must want that for which you persevere more than you are hindered by the one thousand and one things that get in between here and there. All of the frustrations, the seeming impossibilities, the uncertainties. The falling down. And getting back up,...
December 23, 2020 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Personal Sustainability, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
Exploring the edges of enough What is enough? Enough love, enough laughter, enough beauty? Perhaps enough money, possessions, property? Rights? Freedom? When I was invited as a guest to the favelas in Brazil enough was very little and yet laughter led everywhere. At...
December 20, 2020 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Personal Sustainability
To remain young as we age is a choice Life is participation, engagement, learning, dynamic. Integral engagement – physical, emotional, mental, spiritual, community, cultural. Age often makes people more stubborn. More selfish. Wilful helplessness, rather than...
December 19, 2020 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
All plans of mice and men If 2020 has taught us anything, it is that plans are OK, but the moment we become attached to them working as we expected, the plan owns us. When a plan owns us, when our expectations are entangled with the plan unfolding as we want it, then...
