“The Whole News” Blog
Opening our minds to greater awareness and depth
Don’t Change the Person – Change the System
If you lived at our place you would by now have become familiar with the sound of my voice yelling, ‘Oh no!’ and the clatter of my feet madly dashing to the sink so that I could turn the water filter off before the whole house flooded. In fact, I did once flood...
What Came Out Of The Cocoon…
If you read my blog of a few weeks ago (‘Watch a human being emerge from a cocoon’) you’ll know that I was in the process of rethinking my life! Well, I’ve scratched a hole in the chrysalis and I’m peering out. Here’s what I discovered in the process of being...
Watch A Human Being Emerge From A Cocoon!
The phenomenon of the caterpillar constructing a chrysalis and secretly transforming itself into a butterfly is a powerful and wonderful metaphor that inspires most of us. - What a beautiful illustration of the idea that nothing is destroyed or created but...
Managing Our Expectations as a Way of Avoiding Conflict
One of my ex-writing students is a Marketing Manager and we’re doing an exchange of services at the moment. Something I really appreciate about Ellen is the cleanness of her communication style. In one of our early conversations she...
How Clean Are You? – Health, Values, & the Inner-Outer War
A friend of mine reckons that water is only good for washing dishes. His beverage of choice is champagne, and his life philosophy is that he’s 'here for a good time, not a long time'. It sounds good and it’s very amusing but I suspect that when his body...
Kids and Money and Keeping Our Word
‘Riches, my boy, don’t consist in having things but in not having to do something you don’t want to do, and don’t you forget it. Riches is being able to thumb your nose.’ - Brat Farrar by Josephine Tey I was at a business networking...