A friend kindly shared this article with me: Paradigm shift and collapse.

Sitting on a bench next to a playground, I am listening to a group of children playing in the fort.

During December, I enjoyed having signed up to the TED Talks “31 Days of Ideas.” Each day, a different idea would arrive in my inbox – notes about why this talk was chosen, and a link to the talk. The last talk, on 31st December, was this one: Poetry, Music and Identity.

This Easter Sunday, I've been thinking about what Christianity means in today’s world.

Gustavo Tanaka  is a Brazilian author and entrepreneur. Not held back by the way humans have done things in the past, he and his friends are creating a new way of living on the planet that’s far more collaborative and harmonious than we have experienced to date.

We saw in Britain last week, and in Australia this week, that the voting public has largely moved on from the old, combative two-party government systems.

Ursula Le Guin has a short and powerful message for us all. In her award acceptance speech, Ursula Le Guin urges writers to envision alternatives to capitalism.

Leading for the good of us all. When I first experienced the “vision” of this new leadership, in the spring of 1999, it seemed a heresy.

“Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.”........Mahatma Gandhi Flying home yesterday from Melbourne, I pondered on the weekend just gone. After arriving at Melbourne airport last Friday evening, my instruction had been to take the strategic planning sub-committee of a national board through a strategic planning exercise in one day!

Sitting in a cafe, I was waiting for someone whom I'd arranged to meet here. The tree stood tall outside, its leaves glistening in the sunlight. I loved the way the rustling leaves on our eucalyptus trees catch the light and send it on its sparkling way. Birds called as they flitted among the branches. Each tree supports so much life!

“When you buy a business today, on average 71% of what you are paying for is intangible,” says Ramesh Thomas, principal executive officer at India’s largest branding company, Equitor Management Consulting. “Twenty-five years ago that was only 18%.”

While watching a TV show on the “Space Race,” I pondered on the experiences of the astronauts who left our earth for a time.

There is a real organisation, a global organisation, let’s call it SR, which operates entirely outside the “normal” monetary world.

I wonder what JRR Tolkein’s vision was for his trilogy “Lord of the Rings”, and what part did the "one ring to rule them all" play in it.

Last night my husband Rob and I watched the first 2 episodes of “MASH”.

Last Friday I delivered the last of three sessions for this course at the University of Western Australia Extension.