August 29, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Surrender To surrender – To give up, to deliver over. On one pole, we have helplessness, inertia, complete lack of resistance, care-lessness, disempowerment. On the other pole, we have a fight-to-the-death, against all odds, endure, never give up. The extremes...
June 9, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development
In the waiting room There are times in life when we wait. All of life has periods of gestation. This time can be a tumult of emotions. Patience, frustration, anxiety, peace, surrender. All roiling through us, quite often tangled into each other. Gestation is for...
January 20, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development
Struggle struggle then boom I am learning to surf, commencing this journey in my 6th decade. I set the intention from the outset to be able to surf on a short board, which is the harder route. Snowboarding, another sport I enjoy, is easier. The mountain doesn’t move...
December 24, 2022 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Sustainability, Syntropic Enterprise
Beauty demands entry A sea eagle landed on the beach beside us this morning. This beautiful creature made me think of Nature, of its majestic complexity. How people like David Attenborough have translated Nature for our ready access. When we live in and close to...
May 31, 2022 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Taking my word, or anyone else, as the only way Please don’t! It is a sad road to switch out one oppressor with a more progressive oppressor not realising we are still oppressed. For many of my early years I placed others on pedestals. Many others. Then less. Now...