Our most simple, accidental actions can have disastrous results. Human actions have consequences. Something similar to the ‘butterfly effect‘. A recent post shared France’s efforts (and French people) to reduce and eventually stop plastic and other non-organic waste. The Pacific Ocean garbage patch (Wikipedia, CNN, National Geographic) has been well covered in mainstream press. On…
When was the last time in a corporate strategy review meeting, or a government agency 30 year plan, when somebody said: “Remember, those either are or will be REAL humans behind those spreadsheet numbers. Not abstractions.” Climate changes impact life – hard to disagree. Reports and projections both fanciful and scientific are thrown around, disputed,…
I found a thread of commonality running from Heraclitus, Seneca, the Rolling Stones, and Cheryl Crow. This message is not exclusive to stoics, but maybe they were the ones who could walk the talk. “If you don’t regard what you have as enough, you will never be happy even if you rule the entire world”….
Few if any rational, informed human on today’s earth will disagree that our waste-producing practices are negatively impacting our earth. Ocean plastic (UN), contaminated water (Guardian and Consumer Reports), dirty air (WHO), and littered streets tell a sad tale – not even mentioning the micro-elements and forever chemicals (The Conversation) found in every corner of…
Druids … did they exist? who were they, and what did they do? Where did they come from and where did they go? Answering those questions, if possible, will take time – a true deep dive. I quickly found learning about druids is not as easy as reading Wikipedia, or any other text (popular or…
In a recent Wikipedia serach, a definition of Stoicism came back with this phrase: Stoicism is a school of Hellenistic philosophy that flourished in Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome.[1] The Stoics believed that the practice of virtue is enough to achieve eudaimonia: a well-lived life. The Stoics identified the path to achieving it with a life spent practicing certain virtues in everyday life such as…
