August 31, 2024 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
Asbestos, asbestos everywhere In 2015 the government of Sri Lanka changed. The new government proposed a ban on asbestos, to be fully in place in 2018, but was pushed back to 2024. The producers of asbestos applied pressure. The producers are Russian companies. They...
August 25, 2024 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Non-cooperation of the elements One of the simultaneously beautiful and frustrating aspects of surfing is we are beholden to the elements. When there is no swell, there are no waves. You can’t manufacture waves at will. I love this about Nature. She breaks the fallacy...
August 23, 2024 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
To know humility is to be powerful We came to Sri Lanka for adventure and to spend two weeks in one place surfing. Today I had a case of the yips. Fear ruled my head. Tony, my partner and amazing surf coach, reassured me that the waves are different today, requiring...
August 9, 2024 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
I love multiculturalism Watching the Olympics, the Japanese and Italian Brazilians in the men’s Park Skate, and the Aussie Japanese fourteen-year-old gold medal winner for Park Skate…these kids are the future. The winners and other placeholders celebrate as if they...
August 6, 2024 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
Challenging the status quo It is because life is constantly emergent that we must challenge the status quo as a practice. When we sit back and get into that comfortable space of same same, when we resist change in all areas – our learning, physical development,...
August 5, 2024 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Are you kind I am an immigrant I have lived on the threshold of homelessness. I know what it feels like to have the ‘heavy’ show up at your door to repossess your car. I know what it is like to walk the lands of the West and never feel looked at for my melanin. I...
