When I sit down to write these emails I ask this question,

Welcome to 2020.

Even though it is just another cycle around our star, and nothing has really changed,

Beauty was seen by medieval scholars as one of the transcendentals of being,

I was listening to my friend Johan Beukes speaking about taking care of your soul this weekend, I'd thought to share some of his thoughts here.

"The new country is where you are called to go, and the only way to go there is naked and vulnerable" - Henri Nouwen

There are a couple of hundred people on this email list, and if a couple of hundred people start to do things differently, start to build stuff that matters, that make our country and our world a little bit better every day then that could be quite something.

If you start your day well, it just makes sense to finish it well, one thing I do every day at the end of my day is a review.

Here is a practice, a regula, that helps me get my body and mind connected and in the right state.

Do you have a regula?

A regula is a rhythm of life, something that one finds in monasteries and the like, that describes the how of living and contains practices that allow for that 'how' to happen successfully.

The word company, which we  use to describe businesses, comes from the Latin

Woke up with this line from the film After Earth pulsing in my mind:

Re-membering, to rejoin things that have been pulled apart.

I had a social media tiff with someone on social media the other day (you know how fruitful those can be...)

The stories my mind makes up is incredible in a terrible way, one little hook or one little comment and my mind races around in circles coming to the conclusion that all is worthless and we're just a day away from living on a trash heap.

Recently we went to a secluded beach to have a picnic, we brought a Cobb cooker along, it uses 6 coals to cook a meal.

We live in our heads, at least I do.

Modern life, or post-modern life, is a-rhythmic. Not having a rhythm as our ancestors did, a