December 7th 2025 Choices. Intersections. Mistakes Choices. Intersections. Mistakes My little dog sleeps at my feet. One of our chickens, Lilly, just laid an egg and, in her usual fashion, is telling the world how wonderful she is, chortling away. The heat that was going to arrive has gratefully been swept into clouds, the threat of storms now imminent. Our weather is topsy-turvy. A reflection of the state of the world. Careful plans have been frayed. We wait, in death’s antechamber, for the...
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December 6th 2025 Pollute the beautiful game Pollute the beautiful game FIFA is corrupt to the bone. A game that is loved on the streets of the favelas of Rio, in the dry dirt of the Moroccan desert, and in the ruins of Palestine, is now captured by politics that know only greed and cruelty. If we are to look at the pop culture representation of capture by corruption, we might look to the beautiful game. The people who suffer under the weight of Empire, kleptocracy and colonisation, those who...
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December 5th 2025 Holding it all together Holding it all together Or not. Sometimes we cannot hold it all together. It is too much. Emotions take space, and our biology has a limited amount of space. Squeezing emotions into a closed space will not work. Emotions will leak out and spill. This is why we cry, and laugh. And rage. Because we have to move the emotions from our inner space to open up for different. My emotions are brewing like a pot of chickpeas, about to burst the pot lip. Into...
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December 4th 2025 The desiccation of our soul The desiccation of our souls A small business relies on the relationship with its customers. The small scale means that when one person receives bad service or a shonky product, this can have an exponential effect on the whole business. When a large business gives shonky service, when we, the customer, are treated as a number, a transaction and disrespected, ignored or exploited, to the business it is meaningless. There are few examples of large...
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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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