July 30, 2024 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
What is progress? We have been brainwashed to think a particular way about success, progress and advancement. Success has meant accumulation, wealth and power. It rarely considers relational quality, health, and service. Advancement is often screwed to technological...
December 31, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs
The myth of technology making our lives easier Sure, it is easier to drive a car than travel by foot or horse and buggy. And I love that the computer in my pocket gives me warning that it is about to rain. We fail to put technology into the context of the system that...
October 3, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs
All billionaires are policy failures “All billionaires are policy failures”, Cory Doctorow. I agree. To put billions in perspective, this is what it means. Suppose you landed a job paying $1 per second, or $3,600 per hour. You are paid 24/7. At this rate, it would...
September 10, 2022 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
To be wealthy, accumulate all those things that money can’t buy At some stage in life accumulation of more things begins to feel empty of joy. It dawns on us that happiness doesn’t exist in manufactured matter far removed from animating life. We walk through our...
December 19, 2021 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development
Simplicity The choice of managing one thousand things, or ten. Of accumulation, or walking lite. Considering everything, from possessions to emotional baggage, to the load of carrying vengeance for weeks or decades. Against the culture of consumption, competition,...
