August 27, 2018 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Sustainability
After the rain Falling asleep last night after a day of heavy rain, I might have woken and wondered if I was in the same world of yesterday. Not a cloud to be seen. Stars and a full moon. Nature reminds us that after the rain, sun. That everything will continue, with...
August 26, 2018 | Beauty of Beginnings, Bucky Fuller-Critical Path, Personal Development
Is this enough Life. I am at a loss. One moment majestic. The next, devastating. Our attempts to package it into sense-making and neat little boxes get completely unravelled by forces beyond our control. The more we try, the more reason and sense-making eludes us. The...
August 25, 2018 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development
Soul food A stranger just brought me a coffee. A friend of a friend, a man with a beautiful smile and such a generous heart, brought me a coffee. As he was leaving, I said to him, in a moving moment, “You never know the back story an act of generosity can...
August 24, 2018 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development
Heart Break Happens to us all. More than once. We pour our love into a creation, a relationship, a dream, a beloved pet. And then it is gone, broken, finished. A dark cavity lives in our chest. We can choose to allow callouses to harden our heart. To cultivate...
August 22, 2018 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development
The first lie Every notable historical era will have its own Faust, wrote Kierkegaard. Selling our Soul to a demon called Mephistopheles to achieve some short-term desire is the way of humans. Be that power, beauty, fame, love, money, success… At some stage, we...
August 21, 2018 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development
The very important work of a smile The type of smile that is spirit bursting through eyes and mouth…unable to be contained by mere human biology. One of the most precious of viruses. Completely contagious. Seeking to infect. And those infected grateful. A smile...
