March 7, 2022 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Sustainability
Despair I see you It becomes too much. The despair engulfs us. Emotional drowning. All strength to act gone. Squeezed out. Husked. Desiccated. Our body knows that healing requires a cocoon. To be wrapped in blankets, or arms able to hold without any demand. To sink...
October 22, 2020 | Beauty of Beginnings, Bucky Fuller-Critical Path, Deliberately Developmental Organisations, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
Purpose, Intention, Outcome There is a purpose for a meeting, a project, a gathering, an enterprise. A purpose provides direction. It has movement, it is a vector towards. We hold an intention for this purpose to be made manifest, or we might hold an intention that we...
September 29, 2018 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs
One of the many great things about hard physical exercise as the first thing to do in the day is that you learn about toughing it out. As a runner of 24 years, I know that some days you show up and it feels like you are running on air. Each step effortless and...
July 8, 2013 | Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Yesterday I ran my 9th Gold Coast Marathon, and about my 20th marathon in total. There is no easy way to run a marathon. It is a test for anyone who shows up at the start line. A marathon has a mythic quality to it, carrying the history of the first marathon and all...
August 24, 2009 | Personal Development, Personal Sustainability
I had not really heard of the City of God, at least not enough to know anything about it. Was it a book or a movie? Yes, a movie was made in 2002. I hadn’t seen it. It was nominated for an Academy Award in the foreign language section. I have it now to watch. Here I...
