July 9, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Sustainability
The holocaust of leaves I spent my childhood in Queenstown Tasmania. One of the most environmentally degraded communities on Earth. There was a holocaust of trees. And leaves. And all the life that goes with trees and leaves and forests. I did not know this was a...
July 6, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Sustainability
Run towards You could imagine we might run towards this world… Energy that is much cheaper and its byproducts do not kill us Electric vehicles….so you can breathe and our kids do not get sick Energy efficiency that benefits us all rather than the select few Not...
July 5, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Conformity enforcers We have wild, chaotic, untrammelled. We have tight, brittle, fragile. We have the uncontained entrepreneurial spirit, absent discipline. And the safety and security of certainty. The tension between is the field of creativity. Not too tight to...
July 1, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Dare to Care-Conscious Communication, Personal Development
The side effects of avoiding conflict Emotion is energy in motion. Anger and frustration are like charged particles, perturbating. They have to go somewhere. In our desperation to keep peace, not rock the boat, stay safe from the force of anger that might become...
June 27, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Personal Sustainability
Reduced From boundless energy to none. From glittering reputation to spoiled. From knowing your place to falling into an abyss. From a runner to injured. A thousand ways to be reduced. And in the fall to re-order priorities. To question what is truly important. To...
June 24, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
New Life At the cost of all that was old and needs to be composted. The accumulation of beliefs and behaviours that are no longer yours. Or may never have been. The time in life where everything is questioned. Even the ground under your feet. Will it hold you when you...
