March 18, 2015 | Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
“Attention without feeling is only a report” Mary Oliver One of the saddest aspects of our current commercial, success, status and achievement-based culture is that we have taught millions of kids, mostly men, to grow up completely disconnected from their...
March 10, 2015 | Dare to Care-Conscious Communication, Personal Development, Syntropic Enterprise
The subject tonight is love – love in context A word used like common table salt, often without any connectivity to genuine emotion. A word that signifies a force greater than comprehension. Bucky Fuller said that love was metaphysical gravity. Before we modern...
March 5, 2015 | Beauty of Beginnings, Economies for justice, Syntropic Enterprise
Those who know the price of everything and the value of nothing When we reduce everything to a monetary price and find ourselves arguing over the pennies, we have forgotten the value of so much more that would ever live in the pure transactional exchange. In the...
March 2, 2015 | Beauty of Beginnings, Bucky Fuller-Critical Path, Current Affairs, Syntropic Enterprise
From parasites to adjuvants Biology is a wonderful teacher, if we pause long enough to honour her. These are some of the relationships that occur in biology. Commensalism – the relationship between two organisms where one organism benefits from the other...
February 20, 2015 | Current Affairs, Personal Development, Syntropic Enterprise
We are citizens of the world, and our voice matters I am angry. I am angry because two young Australian men are to be shot by firing squad in Indonesia. Sure, they committed a crime, which was to try to bring a large amount of heroin into Australia. That was 10 years...
February 12, 2015 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
The power of 80 people -a revised view of economic disparity 80 people hold the wealth of the bottom 50% of the planet…3.5 billion people. (A number I simply cannot imagine) (Oxfarm) 80 people. That was how many guests I had at my wedding. It is the same as...