July 6, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Dare to Care-Conscious Communication, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Acts of great love To dare to care enough to call people to account, to hold them to a better, yet to-be-expressed version of themselves, is an act of love. When people react with venom, when they blame, justify, and strike out, this is the soft wound they harbour,...
July 2, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Rally people to revolution Passivity and not feeling like we can change things are desired by many as a way to seize power. Bringing the people to despair, hopelessness, and helplessness. Keep them submissive. The weapons to do this often include reducing people to...
June 28, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Safe Uncertainty The world is uncertain. From the direction of the wind to the length of our lives, we cannot know exactly what tomorrow will bring. The desire for neat, scripted lives, where tomorrow looks similar to today, can be compelling, yet is ultimately going...
June 27, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Private sufficiency public luxury Think about this type of world, where we have clear boundaries around our private enoughness, and we live in a world of public luxury. Public luxury? Excellent health care, education, elder and child care for all, funded publicly. No...
June 25, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Human apex predators Apex predators are those at the top of the food chain. They have no natural predators seeking to kill them. (Other than humans) Lions. Great White Sharks. Crocodiles. Killer Whales. There has been considerable debate about humans being apex...
June 23, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Constantly learning never arriving In my youth, wrapped in a new age blanket, I thought being enlightened was the destination. Enlightenment was a status symbol. A ‘look at me.’ The irony was that my quest for enlightenment was a quest to be better than, superior....
