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Naushad Parpia Explains Why Sustainable Practices Build Lasting Business Revenue
Many founders discover stability comes from responsible planning and resource management choices. This approach focuses future growth through ethical sourcing and environmental awareness programs. Investors prefer companies showing discipline through long-term sustainability objectives and policies. These decisions reduce risk while improving brand perception across customer communities globally. Operational efficiency increases when waste declines under structured sustainability frameworks everywhere. Leadership perspectives, including insights from Naushad Parpia, reflect this business mindset evolution. Entrepreneurs understand revenue improves when sustainability aligns strategy with daily operations well.
By Naushad Parpiaabout a month ago in Writers
The Matriarch's Table
Viv, Layla and Hugo are the first to arrive. Frieda, the family matriarch, is already seated at the western side of the large rosewood dining table. Behind her the Lions Gate Bridge separates Burrard Inlet and English Bay. Container ships pass near the horizon beneath the blue-grey blanket of clouds. Ten places laid out with fine bone china, the rosewood table adorned with silver candelabras, silver serving platters, and large silver serving spoons of varying sizes. The grandeur of elaborate high society parties hangs in the air. The servants and guests are long gone. Each room, drenched in the secrets of a bygone era, now collecting cobwebs and dust. Tonight, this one room hums with a throng of life not seen for decades as this final gathering of the motley successors feeds life into the old bones of the structure.
By Meredith Ferrari2 months ago in Writers
Good Men Are Hard To Find, So Relax And Let Them Find You
Anne Bernays and Pamela Painter — What if? Writing Exercises for Fiction Writers prompts — The Exercise — Have a place in your writer's notebook where you play around with titles, making a list of your favorites. Or read through a story looking for a title to emerge from the story itself - a phrase, an image, etc. The Objective To sharpen your instincts for a good title and to understand how titles can lead you to stories.
By Denise E Lindquist2 months ago in Writers
Why I Stopped Trying to be Productive at 6AM
I used to pressure myself, nonstop, to wake up at 6 AM because every "successful" person online said that's what grown adults do. According to the adults online, if you weren't up before sunrise, writing in your journal, and drinking a green smoothie, your life was basically a failure waiting to happen. I believed what the adults online said. I became miserable, not understanding why waking up early didn't transform me into a hyper glowing version of myself.
By Jasmine Platson2 months ago in Writers
This Was My Best Fucking Piece (And It Still Lost)
There’s a particular kind of heartbreak that only writers know— the moment you hit “submit,” whisper a shaky prayer to the literary gods, and then, days or weeks later, open an email that starts with the word “Unfortunately.”
By Alexander Mind2 months ago in Writers
Life Between Two world. AI-Generated.
Three years ago, I left Kenya — a peaceful, warm place that shaped my childhood — and moved to Somalia, a land full of contradictions. Beauty and hardship. Strength and struggle. Hope and fear. Two worlds, both real. Two worlds I now live between.
By Khadija Ali2 months ago in Writers
Two Native American Elders Visiting
Anne Bernays and Pamela Painter — What if? Writing Exercises for Fiction Writers prompts — The Exercise — Begin a story from random elements such as two characters, a place, two objects, an adjective, and an abstract word. If you are not in a class, give this list to someone and have them provide you with the words so you will be surprised by them. If you are in a class have the class make up a random list. Then everyone must use these elements in the first two pages of a story. The Objective - To exercise your imagination, to prove to yourself that all you need is a trigger to get you started writing. And if you care about the story you start, the finish will take care of itself.
By Denise E Lindquist2 months ago in Writers
The Day I Borrowed the Sky
I had always watched airplanes from the terrace of our old house—tiny white specks slicing through the sky, leaving behind thin trails that faded slowly like secrets whispered to the wind. I used to wonder what it felt like to sit inside one of those flying giants. How did people look so calm walking into a machine that defied gravity? How did they trust the sky so easily?
By The best writer 2 months ago in Writers
