February 3, 2026 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
Its relational It is easy to disregard the stranger. To ignore their pain and circumstances. It is easy to buy meat from a factory farm when it is wrapped in plastic on the supermarket shelf. Forgetting the animal. Last week, as I hand-fed my chicken Stephanie, who,...
February 2, 2026 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Worth living and dying for On Saturday, the 31st of January, we held a small memorial service for my father and his wife, both of them passing within 39 days of each other. I spent 45 minutes writing a beautiful piece about this, intending to post it in Beauty of...
January 28, 2026 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Happiness and despair, complementary pairs Much has been written about happiness in recent times. While I am a fan of being happy, why place the search for happiness at the centre of our existence? For one to know true happiness, one must also know the depths of...
January 24, 2026 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Governance for wisdom, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Kleptocracy Let us call it what it actually is. A kleptocracy. To rule by a class of thieves. Coined in the early 19th century, this term describes a government where leaders abuse political power to personally embezzle or expropriate a nation’s wealth. As the...
January 22, 2026 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Ludicrous Imagine you are a community or city, and someone from far across the oceans insists they know better how to run your community or city. They have no interest in consulting you, asking what you think, or even being open to the potential that your community...
January 21, 2026 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Buying entry to the castle I have come to regard the Nobel Peace Prize as stupid tokenism. When the recent winner gave her prize to Donald Trump, it was clear she was seeking to fawn her way into power in Venezuela. Selling our souls. Another form of prostitution....
