December 3rd 2025 Bad timing good timing Bad timing good timing Is how life works. It is either all, or nothing. Everything all at once. Or silence. Inconvenience is the way to remind us of what is truly important. Life and death refuse to abide by human-constructed schedules. The greater field and force keep us humbled. As it should. Photo Taken July 23rd 2021, Article published December 3rd 2025 Were you forwarded this email? Get on the list. To ONLY receive Beauty of Beginnings and no...
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December 2nd 2025 Self-respect comes in many sizes Self-respect comes in many sizes I have the love of my partner, no matter my age, size, or fitness. For a woman who obsessed over size and fitness all my life, this is extraordinary. I could indeed stop caring about my fitness and my weight and I know he would love me. But that is not the point. I care for me. I care enough about me to stay fit and to watch what I eat. I want to like me. I want to feel comfortable in my skin. I like feeling...
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December 1st 2025 For AI to make a return on investment For AI to make a return on investment The investment in AI is ridiculous. For it to get a return on investment, there would need to be a loss of half the entry-level jobs on the planet, adding 10 to 20 percent to the unemployment situation. This, or the AI bubble will burst, as all bubbles do. Money making money on money without adding any real value - like food, water, housing, education - is and always has been a Ponzi scheme. Either...
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November 30th 2025 Leave the world as light as you entered Leave the world as light as you entered My partner and I spent the day yesterday cleaning house and supporting my 92 year old father. Until a week ago we had his partner to do most of this, but we have realised that she was not capable of doing anything, through a hidden from us, but advanced dementia. I wonder how humans can choose to live in such conditions. It was truly shocking. His neighbours said he is the most stubborn man they...
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November 29th 2025 Grateful for those blisters Grateful for those blisters It is easy to be grateful when our cup of life is full. But to find gratitude when the river is dry, and our soul despairs, is the measure of our character. Easy is it to fall into entitlement. As if we are owed a particular lifestyle. To bemoan the not-so-good, or frankly bad. Gratitude as a life practice insists on finding the good, true, and beautiful in blisters, hunge,r and cold. Gratitude as a spiritual practice...
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November 28th 2025 Creating organisational structural integrity Creating organisational structural integrity A system is a conceivable entity dividing Universe into two parts, the inside and the outside of a system. (except, of course, the part of the Universe doing the dividing.) R. Buckminster Fuller In order for us to see otherness, we need an inside and an outside. We need a system. A minimum of four corners is required for existence. The tetrahedron is the minimum system in Universe. The...
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November 27th 2025 When we want or need something When we want or need something Invite a question, seek a solution, ask for a resource The usual way. Push, pull, drive, coerce, cajole. The Syntropic Way. Invite. Tell others. Ask. Stay open. Wait. Allow Kairos time. The key is the intention set, and the commitment to the Pattern Integrity of the intention itself. If we are not clear yet, the inquiry brings us closer to clarity. Conversations reveal what we are looking for or seeking, and what...
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November 26th 2025 Reestablish gratitude Reestablish gratitude My father’s short sight has gone, making reading and some close-up tasks impossible. He is 92 and otherwise healthy. After stubbornly refusing to use mobile phone technology, he is now suddenly open to a mobile phone. His wife has developed sudden, severe dementia, and has a large benign mass on her neck threatening vital functions. She is mostly lost to him, her memory a flicker. This all within weeks. They live four hours’ drive...
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November 25th 2025 Complete Complete ‘having no deficiency, wanting no part or element, plere “to fill” ‘ Complete a project, and it is finished. Complete reading emails – responding to people. Done. Complete a client conversation – not just the words, but the elements promised to follow up. Too often, we do not complete, which means the project, conversation, task, or relationship is deficient, and that deficiency is a black hole for energy and inefficiency. The residue of incompletion...
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