September 4, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Dare to Care-Conscious Communication, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Speaking to what is true I was in many conversations yesterday, and they all held a similar theme. Our inability to speak to the truth, particularly in the presence of perceived power. First, to find the clarity below the jumble of emotions. We spurt out a chaos of...
August 31, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Strength with age It is my birthday. This week in the gym I dead lifted 70 kgs, one and a half times my body weight. I pushed thirty kgs above my head. It is an amazing feeling to be strong and getting stronger with each year. My passport says I am 65. It qualifies me...
August 29, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Their war is different Today, my father is 92. He is mentally sharp and loving life. Still working in some way or another. I appealed to him a year ago to clean out the years and years of stored boxes of stuff and memories, one box a month. Steady and slow. Please...
August 27, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
The wrinkle in the idiot pursuit of perfection We each have a wild part of us. Raw, instinctual, unrefined. Able to live off the land, to survive against odds. It has a home territory. It shies away from anything that is not known, from crowds, and noise…it looks out...
August 26, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Thinking about resentment Resentment – To feel pain and distress, to feel again, in turn. Resentment is a spiral cycle. It feeds upon itself. If it were a food, it would be spikey, like nettles, and would taste off, but not enough to spit out. Because resentment...
August 25, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
The complementary pair of sin is awe Author Terry Pratchett’s character Granny Weatherwax said: Sin is when you treat people like things. Including yourself. That’s what sin is. I could not agree more, although I would add animals and the Earth to the list. Treating...
