I recently purchased a book at the Brisbane airport to accompany me on my journey. The book was called by Mitch Albom. I had read some of his other material and enjoyed his take on dealing with death – as he always approached it in a warm and heart rendering manner. In reading his latest [...]
Destruction is not the purpose of humanity, for all humans have been built to build. And what are we to build? 1. We Are To Build Each Other An encouraging word, a pat on the back, an uplifting text or email can change the course of one life in an instant. Be a builder, not [...]
I have in the first month of this year attended two funerals. One for a friend who was a few years older than myself, and who had lost a five year battle with cancer, and the other for a friend’s child who died full-term in the womb of his young mother. Both were sad events, [...]
Before heading to bed tonight I found myself singing The Beatles song ‘All You Need Is Love’, and soon recalled all the events that had just occurred in my household – just another bustling night in the Sinclair household. Over dinner, which my wife and I shared with my son and his girlfriend, we found [...]
I recently read a sad obituary of a billionaire who had passed on. It recorded the fact that they had been known for their ‘bullish’ dealings in business and their unsettled family relationships resulting from three marriages. Now they may have been the owner of some other fine qualities throughout their lifetime, not noted in [...]
Two of my children and I kayaked from the mainland, across the Pumicestone Passage, to Bribie Island yesterday. We got wet, used muscles in our arms and legs that we hadn’t used in a while. We paddled against the wind and the current, and even chased a stingray who suddenly disappeared, as if by magic, [...]
Raising a family is something that very few of us have been trained to do. So much of our philosophy in bringing up children has been formed by what we saw demonstrated by our own parents. But may I suggest that there is probably a much safer and more effective model to building your parental [...]
Some people spend their entire lives developing a legacy that can be passed onto future generations when they are dead and gone. I see the value of that in one sense, but may I suggest that it is far better to develop a heritage that can be enjoyed by both you and your offspring while [...]
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