August 28, 2018 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development
Woken by love songs As I was running in the pre-dawn dark I heard birds singing their morning song. The unique call of the Australian Magpie, the pure melody of the Butcher Bird. In our Southern Hemisphere spring, I have a Butcherbird who sits outside my bedroom...
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...
