A few months ago, I watched a tv show about German Jews leaving Israel and returning to Berlin. To live. Most were 3rd generation Israeli citizens. It was a most uplifting story.

Yesterday was one of the magical synchronicities of life that, the day after reading this most thoughtful writing, I was blessed that an owl perched on my hand. A beautiful white-faced barn owl, named Ivy, and a superb predator.

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.

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.

A conversation with my grandchildren (aged 10 and 11) this morning alerted me to the reach of the upcoming US elections. I wondered why they were glum, and asked if these elections were worrying them. “Yes!” They were both worried.

A reflection on the still-relevant message from Charles Dickens’ book “A Christmas Carol” written in 1843, from an article by Stephen MacKenzie in the Christmas 2015 edition of The Big Issue in Britain.

Change your words, change your world...a powerful message from this short video.

I’ve been reflecting on the story of Easter today. About what makes some people so willing to give of themselves for the good of any other living beings, human and otherwise.

With Easter approaching, I found these thoughts about "The Age of Atheism" relevant: click here to read the article.

Today I read this article - "Employees Who Feel Love Perform Better."

One recent hot weekend in Perth, when the cool indoors called, I made my way through a pile of newspaper articles dating back to 1997. The first article was dated 20th December 1997 and called “Last Anzac fought for family values.” It told of the death of Ted Matthews a few weeks earlier. At 101 he was the last original Anzac. The journalist interviewed his daughter, Irene Phillips, about him.

“The Wolf that you give your attention to is the wolf that will lead you to your destiny.”

“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!

“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%.”

The Yangtze river dolphin has been declared extinct – Washington Post. Does this matter?

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

During a speech from Jillian Broadbent, then-director of BT Australia, she outlined her inspiring approach to life and work.

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.