Search results for category: Finding Balance
Anything you can do I can do better!
Submitted by Mike.
on 2010-08-16 02:32 PM.
That song, sung by Doris Day and Robert Goulet in the show "Annie Get Your Gun", was one I knew in that era but we males never took it seriously! Women couldn’t challenge men at anything! Such a thought was absurd.
Submitted by Mike.
on 2010-02-03 09:26 AM.
I have read and re-read, and made others listen, to what Janine Benyus writes on pages 6 and 7 of her book ‘BIOMIMICRY’ and I don’t feel like a prophet of doom when I read it. I am fascinated, excited and hopeful. See what it does to you!
Submitted by Mike.
on 2010-02-01 03:54 PM.
One of the books I recently re-read is BIOMIMICRY by Janine Benyus. It affected me profoundly and since I cannot send copies out, I plan to blog extracts in the hope that you will find it as profound as I did.
Submitted by Mike.
on 2010-01-19 04:33 PM.
One of my favourite authors is Richard Bach and one of my all time favourite books is Jonathan Livingstone Seagull – but a piece of his wisdom I use most often comes from “Illusions” and is the parable in the front of the book.
Submitted by Mike.
on 2009-12-11 03:16 PM.
I was asked to speak about “South Africa in 2050”. Having heard Clem Sunter talk helpfully about a “High Road” and a “Low Road” I tried to structure my contribution in the same way – an optimistic way, a pessimistic way and a middle way. My problem was that I couldn’t, and had I read Mark Swilling’s article “SA is turning its back on a brave new world” in the Cape Times newspaper, I would have been more pessimistic! And I am not a pessimist.
Submitted by Mike.
on 2009-12-08 12:16 PM.
On pages 18 and 19 in his best-seller “Conversations with God (Book 1)” Neale Donald Walsch writes these profound words, and we have used them on our Programs to explain why human behaviours are so negative and so damaging to other humans and to our planet.
Submitted by Mike.
on 2009-11-03 02:04 PM.
There is so much written about our education system and what ails it – perhaps too much. But every now and again someone writes a piece that is really worth reading. Paul Hoffman of “The Institute of Accountability in Southern Africa” has written such an article. Since it needs to be read as a whole I add it below – sure that you will get really worked up and do anything you can to bring about something better for our learners.
Submitted by Mike.
on 2009-10-14 04:31 PM.
A “multidimensional” approach to wellbeing, encompassing health, education, political voice and governance, social connections, leisure, and the present and future state of the environment, in addition to material living conditions is required in the next economy.
Submitted by Mike.
on 2009-08-04 03:05 PM.
I bought myself another book to read whilst teaching at Londolozi. It is "Science and the reenchantment of the cosmos" by Ervin Laszlo.
Submitted by Mike.
on 2009-08-04 02:54 PM.
I am privileged to be facilitating a Leadership Program with the staff at Londolozi. From the moment I drive onto the gravel roads and past the game fences I become deeply aware of the timeless wisdom of Nature at very close to its perfect best.
