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

Reading this lovely article on parenting by Maria Popova reminded me of my commitment when our first child was born — to be the best mother I possibly could for this precious gift. A commitment which I repeated when all our children were born and hold to this day.

On my walk this morning (much enjoyed after 10 days of illness and unable to enjoy walking), I spied a tiny daisy flower growing in an equally tiny crack in the tarred path. The golden of its exquisitely small petals was pale against the dark tar. And it flourished quite happily in its own little niche, each perfectly suited to the other.

When I was 16 years old, my first goal to change the world for the better wrote itself into my brain – to help open and respectful conversations about different belief systems. At that time our new school headmistress was leading us to have these conversations weekly. I enjoyed them and wanted to make them happen much more often. I thought that all I had to do to make our world kinder and fairer, especially about beliefs, was to change the way that others talked about it…

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.

Imagine 2,000 people around the world singing the same song at the same time.

“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!

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