May 31, 2024 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs
It doesn’t make it right An atrocity does not grant the right to a reciprocal atrocity. These tit-for-tat games are childish to the extreme. Show me a single episode from history where the revenge act creates peace. The Hydra from Greek Mythology is a multi-headed...
July 5, 2022 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
To be responsible The ability to respond. To say you will do something and do it. To see injustice and act because you have the ability to respond. To stand up to a bully when they aim their attack at an innocent. Because you can respond. To get off the couch instead...
June 22, 2022 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Angels and monsters Some people do horrible and cruel things to other people and creatures. Often times there is a background story to their acts of violence. Violence inflicted upon them as a child. Trauma of some nature. This does not justify their cruelty or...
April 13, 2021 | Beauty of Beginnings, Dare to Care-Conscious Communication, Personal Development, Syntropic Enterprise
To live a life unencumbered by the grip of vengeance When I was young and had my first experience of betrayal, I knew I stood at a cross-roads. Do I harden my heart, or do I stay soft enough to trust first? I knew I wanted to live a life believing in the good of...
July 2, 2020 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Can we deal with a problem by killing it? Where does this impulse come from? That to kill is to solve? If I were in the moment of the sabre tooth tiger eating me, unless I kill the tiger, I would solve the problem of being eaten. But to punish someone by killing,...
