October 14th 2026 Beauty and the Question of Integrity Beauty and the Question of Integrity If beauty is present, so too is integrity, for integrity means to hold its shape. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Does that mean integrity exists when we terraform the land to extract and exploit? Or as we go under the knife to uplift, enhance, pump and preen? I contemplate this question, not yet finding an answer. I think about beauty as I age without cosmetic enhancements. I read yesterday...
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October 13th 2026 Who is the rogue state? Who is the rogue state? It is clear that the rogue states of the world are not the ones we have been told about for decades. Instead, they are the ones we have been told to celebrate as a bastion of success. A state that live-streams executions. A state where state-sanctioned masked men terrorise citizens on the streets. A state that bullies their ‘allies’. And has more people incarcerated than any other state in the world. (Per capita, the USA ranks...
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October 12th 2026 This is my masterpiece This is my masterpiece "Edit your life frequently and ruthlessly. It's your masterpiece after all.” Nathan W. Morris I was thinking about this quote. Every life is a masterpiece simply by existing. Nature is brilliant, and so far, it evades our attempt to capture it in the binary of zeros and ones. This is why I see the hubris and braggadocio of the techbros and their singularity addiction, or uploading their brain/consciousness to a computer, as...
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October 9th 2026 When we offer support and are rejected When we offer support and are rejected You see someone struggling. You offer to help. They decline. You insist; they still decline your offer. Common scenario. What if the offer to help, support or assist is to a beloved? And later, they blame you for their stressful life. Or add these struggling circumstances to their list of stresses, and blame you for all of them. When we offer support or help, and we are rejected in our offer, then...
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October 8th 2026 Dismissing simple because we are so smothered in complex Dismissing simple because we are so smothered in complex When our days feel like an assault of bad news, conflict, hardship, corrupted leadership and a seriously broken Molochian system, we might forget that some things are very simple. For many things, there are steps and habits that are simple, that when done with disciplined consistency, produce healthy results in the future. The morning routine - the frame that sets...
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October 7th 2026 Framing and freedom Framing and freedom A frame is a structure that holds the parts together. It is an enclosing border. To frame a story is to set a context that allows the story to exist within the frame or context. When we seek to frame our lives, we might consider what structure is needed to allow the parts of us to hold together, to be in integrity. The frame might include the daily habits that support us. The values we hold non-negotiable. The relationships that are...
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October 6th 2026 The morality that says every life is sacred The morality that says every life is sacred The system is working as designed. Extract from the downtrodden, the lower ‘castes’, those with limited access to education, those who do not look like those in power, or pray to a similar god. Build the data centres in places already hollowed out by poverty. Places that have lived the neglect of society for decades. Out of sight, out of mind. Plunder from the earth, the enslaved, artists,...
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October 5th 2026 Cry Terrorism Cry terrorism One of Aesop’s Fables, Cry Wolf, tells the story of a bored shepherd boy who, seeking some excitement, cries out that a wolf is attacking his sheep. The first time, the villagers rush to help him. And the second time. Maybe even the third time. But it was all a ploy. There was no wolf. One day, a wolf appears, and the boys’ cries fall on deaf ears. The wolf of 2026 is terrorism. And people – particularly politicians and those who seek to gain – are...
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October 2nd 2026 Mapping where the power lies Mapping where the power lies A significant element of growing up, the end of which is our death, is to become more agentic, knowing what we can and do control, and what we cannot. Mapping who holds the power is a part of this. When we do this, the first map might reveal that we have given our power to another, or an institution, or a belief, often without consent or permission, or even awareness. Coercion, gaslighting, manipulation, spell casting...
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