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...

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...

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...