October 19, 2018 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Sustainability
We must find meaning Against the headwind of pain, we must find meaning. Viktor Frankl wrote of this with so much more truth than I could ever, given he had survived four years of incarceration in a concentration camp in World War II. Through the rubble of despair,...
September 30, 2018 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Sustainability
When life has beaten us down It was blowing a gale on the beach this morning. Our instinct when we turn into the headwind is to contract and hunch, to reduce the mass of our body that is exposed to the force. This instinct is strong. To contract against the headwind...
September 18, 2018 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Sustainability
Naming illusions It helps when things feel hopeless to name illusions. What is real and what is not? You might feel so very alone. You are not alone. If it is true that no one is present, then be aware of what else is present. The tree. The ground that carries you....
September 15, 2018 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Sustainability
Rejection Rejection, like most human emotions, comes in many shades. You might be impervious to the feeling in many areas of your life, yet be completely paralysed by rejection in one single domain. If rejection was a cartoon character, he would be a sneaky character,...
September 7, 2018 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Sustainability
Slow down In a world addicted to fast, what needs to slow down? Water needs to slow down when it lands on a damaged Earth. Otherwise it cannot sink deep. We need to slow down big decisions to ensure alignment and coherence. Perhaps the process of answering questions...
August 29, 2018 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Personal Sustainability
Addiction to light Sitting in the sunshine gazing at a quiet, peaceful Pacific, the delightful sound of conversation behind me, laughter and friends, I am greedy for the sun’s rays to warm me. Not just to warm my body, but to saturate my being. To creep into the...
