Who is it for?

Who are you making your work for, specifically?

A Jeff Buckley quote about soil to end your week. By the way, did you know that Franciscan Monks used to taste the soil before they planted a vineyard? We do not exist apart from our context.

Curiosity is often stifled by ego.

At the start of the year social media is filled with 'live your best life!' or 'become the best you!' posts.

When I sit down to write these emails I ask this question,

Welcome to 2020.

Even though it is just another cycle around our star, and nothing has really changed,

Beauty was seen by medieval scholars as one of the transcendentals of being,

When the pain of staying becomes more than the pain of leaving we …

In Buddhist philosophy, it is said the all suffering stems from desire, from wanting. This is true, especially when it comes to wanting a specific…

'Cause today is Thanksgiving (that is a holiday that deserves copying by the way..), I wanted to send you this poem by Marie Oliver, so we can remember that our true work is

'If you can measure it you can't manage it' a classic business maxim that I have a love-hate relationship with.

One of my favourite animated films is The Incredibles, a story about a family of superheroes that are in hiding since the world no longer 'needs' superheroes.

Once, a long time ago, there was a boy who became great friends, best friends, with a snake.

Just a reminder; It is nearly impossible to guess

There is a Zen Buddhist practice, similar to Memento Mori, that asks you to daily imagine a little bird perching on your shoulder. This little bird asks you only one question (and it is a good one),

I was listening to my friend Johan Beukes speaking about taking care of your soul this weekend, I'd thought to share some of his thoughts here.

I've been thinking about patterns this week.

"The new country is where you are called to go, and the only way to go there is naked and vulnerable" - Henri Nouwen

There are a couple of hundred people on this email list, and if a couple of hundred people start to do things differently, start to build stuff that matters, that make our country and our world a little bit better every day then that could be quite something.