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How to do good when you can’t directly do good

When I was in high school (here, in Australia — in the 1970s), we had to make a choice, in about Year 8 or 9, as to which programme of…

8 min readAug 28, 2022

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Kayleen White

I love thunder - and storms in general, provided we're safe (cyclones, as they're termed in this…

However, we've often had dogs as pets and I would often wind up being the one comforting the dog during storms rather than going out and…

1 min readSep 9, 2023

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Kayleen White

The empty pursuit

The empty pursuit of buying things to fill the empty inside …

1 min readAug 26, 2023

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Kayleen White

Learning to do nothing

When I was a kid, like all kids I would from time to time say to my adoptive mother: “Mum, I’m bored”. She would usually come up with…

7 min readJun 3, 2023

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Emotional competence and incompetence, work, and life

When I was younger, into my late 20s and 30s, I could do what I termed , with one arm passed behind my back, low down, and the other over…

7 min readApr 10, 2023

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Kayleen White

The dangers of “Adversity Quotient”

I recently came across a post on LinkedIn which was forwarding someone’s assessment that we have:

2 min readFeb 4, 2023

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From …

From the ancient forests of Europe came my people to be here.

1 min readNov 4, 2022

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Back in the old days … a reflection on growth vs. existence

Back in the late 1970s, when I was studying engineering at Uni, I started arguing that (urban and industrial) developments should only be…

3 min readOct 29, 2022

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The Ethics of Power When You’re in the Mid-Range

My experience is that it is easy to become aware of those people who have leading roles in organisations, and then either judge them for…

5 min readAug 15, 2022

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Kayleen White

The Superpower Of … Noticing

The controversial author Carlos Castaneda wrote about what he termed “seeing”, which could perhaps be described as perceiving the world…

2 min readAug 8, 2022

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Kayleen White

Kayleen White

Southern hemisphere L & T humanoid who has been actively exploring and living spirituality and supporting human rights as best I can for over six decades.

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