September 26, 2021 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Personal Sustainability
Possibility, preparedness, acceptance, present time To be diagnosed with a terminal condition creates a dilemma. People have recovered from a terminal diagnosis and gone on to live years and decades beyond the diagnosis. We must hold a possibility. The truth is we...
July 20, 2021 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Personal Sustainability, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
When contempt exists When contempt exists in any form in a relationship it signals a Grand Canyonal rift in a future possibility of respect. There is an ugliness to contempt that is palpable. Contempt opens the door for a total lack of care. Care for the other, care...
July 18, 2021 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Personal Sustainability, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
In a world where you are lost, find that within you which is not Lost To lose one’s bearings. To feel the disconnection from the known and familiar. That arising panic that builds from a small wave and has the potential of a tsunami. Your mind like a feather in...
July 13, 2021 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Personal Sustainability
Not a way to live Sometimes we need to turn a corner. Shed skin. Move on. Grow up. Let go. Hanging on by our fingernails for weeks, months, years…is simply not a way to live. It is…hanging on… …and it occupies almost all of our bandwidth just...
July 11, 2021 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development, Personal Sustainability
The possibility that comes with light 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 Butcher Bird who sits...
June 12, 2021 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development, Personal Sustainability
Lessons soaking my soul To set the scene, I am sitting on Tallow Beach, Byron Bay, Northern New South Wales on this glorious Aussie winter morning. A pod of dolphins is entertaining me with their wave surfing skills, their delight evident. I think about that, about...