Can anyone name a global leader occupying a political position who is a stand for integrity? Hmm, anyone? You know, someone who does what they say? Who does not accept legal bribery? Who doesn’t obfuscate the truth? Or outright lie a hundred times a day as a practise? How did we get to a place where the people charged with, … Read More
Time for the Declaration of Human Responsibility to counterbalance and make honest the Declaration of Human Rights | Rights, responsibilities and integrity architecture
It is time to balance the Declaration of Human Rights with the Declaration of Human Responsibilities. Now that would be an evolutionary step. We have rights..but what about rights AND responsibilities? On December 10th, 1948 in Paris the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. This very significant declaration is held in theory as a practice … Read More
People’s minds aren’t made for problems that large. You have to want to see.
This week I am watching others be so completely blind to patterns so big and obvious that have been ongoing for years…and in the watching I watch myself, with my own question…what am I not seeing that is super obvious to others? It feels to me like I have recently broken out of one of my own blindspots after years … Read More
Our addiction to coupling – the values of a single life
I am not sure where I found my strong sense of identity. I think it arrived with me at birth. I was never the timid, frightened child. It was me, after all, that held my fists up to ward off the person bullying my older brother, all tiny me, undaunted. You would often find me in trees, high up, alone, … Read More
We really are all connected – even our photo’s now live in the same building
In a beautiful and emotively shocking presentation on the Gold Coast this past Sunday by a South East Queenslander now London based, Liam Young, the image of Facebook’s storage facilities were shown. This place of black and blue and machines and very carefully controlled temperature in a shed in a remote place in Oregon houses the photo’s of our lives. … Read More
In a post truth world the right to an opinion without the responsibility to explore the whole story is an act of ignorance
The older I get the more I realise that so much of the story of incidents are suppressed. That our role as grown ups is to observe and ask questions. To never accept anything unless it is through our own experience, and even then to be sure to get the whole picture. The discipline required to do this is counter … Read More
We are citizens of the world, and our voice matters. #boycottbali #boycottindonesia
I am angry. I am angry because two young Australian men are to be shot by firing squad in Indonesia. Sure they did a crime which was to try to bring a big amount of heroin into Australia. That was 10 years ago. Sure they need to be held to account. But shot to death? Really? Is that what a … Read More
How do we live in a world so divided?
On this beautiful dawn lies a sea of conflict. I stand here, the energy of the sun penetrating my bones, fueling me through human photosynthesis, knowing that even as I am blessed with life and the opportunity to drink in the gorgeousness of this morn, others are waking to grief, and loss. How do we live in a world so … Read More
Lance Amstrong- a cultural metaphor where lying and cheating are the new normal.
Is Lance Armstrong the first person to be a pathological liar over decades? No… Is he the first person to seemingly get away with cheating, deception and betrayal for years while the people he cheats, deceives and betrays pay the price? No.. Is he the first person to start a lie, and then start believing the lie, becoming arrogant and … Read More
When Gods Fall
The fall of James Magnussen, Australian Olympic Swim team, London 2012 All of us have at some time fallen hard to Earth. Our hubris, arrogance, superiority and judgement have hit us so hard that we have been left gasping for air, mortified, humiliated, shamed and broken. In the early hours of Monday morning July 30th, Australian time, a team of … Read More
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