September 16th 2025 Heartbreak as the generator function of a Syntropic Business that cares Heartbreak as the generator function of a Syntropic Business that cares A broken heart is a powerful lever. From our broken hearts, we stand more fiercely, leaving behind the small play of mediocrity. So much has been written about living on purpose. Finding purpose. But what if your purpose is not so clear, or constantly moving? Go then with the heartache. Go where your heart breaks again and again....
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Sepetmber 15th 2025 Making things Making things I have always been a maker and creator. As a child, crafts like crochet and sewing. The ever-present writing. Baking, learning the craft of alchemy of weird ingredients, an apprenticeship in synergy. Over the last six weeks, my partner and I have been renovating the downstairs section of our 43-year-old house. We had to replace the entire floor after the March cyclone event due to water damage. This triggered a full renovation, on a skinny – we...
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September 14th 2025 Toxic gossip Toxic gossip It works like this. Something happens. People often fabricate stories about what happened, without speaking to the people involved, asking questions, or verifying the evidence to support their claims. The more drama, the more the gossip. Gossip is vicious and sick. It might feed some part of us that seeks righteousness or vindication. I know this well. I know the feeling of smugness that comes with gossiping cruelty. I also know the feeling of...
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September 13th 2025 Dawn is free Dawn is free Look how light and clouds make such a raucous noise of colour? The lone surfer captured under the most magnificent show on Earth. Dawn is free. Unless you count the cost of leaving a warm bed, and perhaps a loved one. Or a day with a little less sleep. But what joy! To start the day with the constant surprise of dawn. Never sure what you will get. But always able to be floored by the fact that this Source of light and energy, our Sun, gives so...
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September 12th 2025 A champion of liberty A champion of liberty Quoted an old man in reference to a young man who lost his life yesterday. A champion of liberty. Sounds sweet. To be a champion of liberty. Yet, liberty for whom is the question. Liberty for all, or for a select few? It was never intended for the statement – all men are created equal – to apply to all men, and certainly not women. Those who wrote this script wrote it believing in a world where one group were men created equally...
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September 11th 2025 Contemplating violence Contemplating violence Every human makes mistakes. Sometimes those mistakes are weighty and have serious consequences. However, there is a difference between making a mistake and perpetrating an act of intentional violence. There is a difference between losing our minds temporarily – having a brain snap – and being relentlessly, deliberately cruel and violent. When I was in my twenties, a person who had been my fiancé invited me to the house we had...
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September 10th 2025 Red lines Red lines Are supposed to be symbols of thresholds crossed that go beyond what is right, true and decent. When we cross a red line, we have stepped into the territory of wrong, bad, criminal, hurtful. As young children, we work the red lines to gauge how far we can push them. When we are raised in a home where boundaries are porous and flexible, we lose our sense of right and wrong. Red lines become toys to play with, always pushing, with little consequence. From...
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September 9th 2025 This is on us This is on us “When you say that, darling, that’s fake news. [Crosstalk.] Be quiet. Listen. You don’t listen. You never listen. That’s why you’re second-rate.” Said a man to a woman this week. Patronising to the extreme. Rude. Arrogant. It is a disgusting way to treat anyone, man or woman. Add to this already despicable conversation, this was a white man speaking to a black woman. To step over someone speaking like this is to be complicit in this type of...
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September 8th 2025 A tangle of thoughts on a Monday A tangle of thoughts on a Monday I did not know there was a full moon eclipse until I was at the beach before dawn. What a wonderful surprise. I felt such a lucky witness. Yesterday I walked into my coffee shop, where one of the advance copies of The Beauty of Beginnings is on display, and a regular visitor was reading a page and had tears streaming down her face. Something I wrote stirred emotion within her. What a gift to witness. We are...
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