June 28, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Pardoning corruption Oh how far we have fallen. One corrupt leader seeks to force another corrupt leader’s country to pardon him. The White House produces a video, surely a parody, of daddy returning home, after a European ‘leader’ puts Trump and daddy in the...
June 27, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Grief too controversial to name Wrote Waleed Shadid in an article about Zohran Mamdani’s Mayoral nomination win in New Your City. Listening to voters whose grief is too controversial to name. The daily slaughter of Palestinians. Live streamed. But too controversial...
June 26, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Dare to Care-Conscious Communication, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Liberty is at risk What is liberty? The condition of a free person; absence of restraint; permission to do and say. If we do not have the liberty to tell people, especially elected representatives, what they do not want to hear, do we have liberty? If we are policed...
June 25, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
The foundation of everything I do There is a wonderful gift that comes with reaching a later stage of life. And that is to care less and less about what people think of you. At the same time, a clarity accelerates about who we really are, a fearlessness to be fully...
June 24, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Dare to Care-Conscious Communication, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Naming truth There is an art to removing extraneous words and naming the truth that lies beneath people’s actions, including ours. This is the meaning of the expression, ‘The Truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.’ What is the truth, using the...
June 22, 2025 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Rest, restore, and then act The news feed is shocking. We have normalised genocide; we sanction a nation bombing another just because they feel threatened. We watch unidentified thugs chase people on the streets of the United States and arrest them, breaking up...