July 26, 2020 | Beauty of Beginnings, Bucky Fuller-Critical Path, Personal Development, Personal Sustainability, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Life, aliveness, engagement with what is in front of us require disintegration My own journey to the bottom of the bottom of the very bottom took well over 10 years. Many times I thought I had arrived, that my undoing was complete. But no, there was more. I needed...
July 25, 2020 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Clutch at madness instead On this very rainy Saturday morning in Queensland, I wanted to share one of my favourite of all mystics and poets, Rumi. Credit to David, a Syntropic Masterclass grad and active part of the community at Syntropic World for bringing this poem...
July 23, 2020 | Beauty of Beginnings, Bucky Fuller-Critical Path, Personal Sustainability, Syntropic Enterprise
To put a stake in the ground. To declare A few years ago, emerging from a dark place, my self-imposed condition of emergence was to put a stake in the ground and no longer try to fix the broken, rescue those who thrive on cycles of rescue and disaster, or convince...
July 22, 2020 | Beauty of Beginnings, Bucky Fuller-Critical Path, Current Affairs, Personal Sustainability, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
We are verbs. The moment we noun ourselves we are lost We would rather be ruined than changed. Rather die in our dread than find the cross of the moment and let our illusions die. W.H. Auden. The Age of Anxiety The shattering of illusions does not come in a soft pink...
July 21, 2020 | Beauty of Beginnings, Bucky Fuller-Critical Path, Current Affairs, Personal Sustainability, Syntropic Enterprise
Forgotten elements that enable a sustainable Syntropic world A Syntropic world aims to leave everything better than we found it. A sustainable world, a very good step from our current practices, aims to leave everything the same. Not worse. The efforts of the...
July 18, 2020 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Personal Sustainability
That feeling of being fully alive Learning to surf in the Southern Hemisphere winter means getting into cold water, often before the sun is fully risen. That shock of cold water tests commitment. It is a temporary discomfort. Once in the experience is about the...