Category Archives: reflective practice

FND Launched!

Posted on September 15, 2009 by lynsey gedye

Yay! We went live with Fresh New Day this morning – not exactly countless hours, but uncounted hours of concentrated effort to get what is perhaps our most ambitious project off the ground. It doesn’t look like there’s much going … Continue reading →

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school sux, work sox

Posted on February 28, 2009 by lynsey gedye

The flight home last night from the Auckland was awash with aging suits who’d been at the employment summit. I talked to one of the suits – one of the 200 grey knights invited in to come up with ideas … Continue reading →

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what to tell your grandkids?

Posted on February 22, 2009 by lynsey gedye

I’ve been reflecting a lot recently on what to tell your grandkids. I don’t have any grandkids, but I was thinking about all those ‘What did you do in the war, Dad?’ kinds of questions that I didn’t ask my … Continue reading →

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books

Posted on November 3, 2008 by lynsey gedye

Once there was a well known philosopher and scholar who devoted himself to the study of Zen for many years. On the day that he finally attained enlightenment, he took all of his books out into the yard, and burned … Continue reading →

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write on

Posted on May 25, 2008 by lynsey gedye

How to take a trip and never have to leave the farm. Dates me – and possibly you too, if you remember the Jim Stafford song about the Wildwood Weed. No, I haven’t been exploring the apparent joys of having … Continue reading →

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a journey of 10,000 hours

Posted on March 1, 2008 by lynsey gedye

Marica is studying at the moment. We are study kind of people, we even met while we were studying. I fully expect we will be studying forever. One of the topics Marica is looking at is to name five people … Continue reading →

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everything I know I learned

Posted on February 27, 2008 by lynsey gedye

You’ve might’ve read Robert Fulghum‘s great mini-essay entitled ‘Everything I know I learned in Kindergarten‘. It’s cute. Full of stuff I wish was true – or, that at least was the way we conducted business and/or employment and/or the way … Continue reading →

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Do What You Love, The Money Will Follow

Posted on January 17, 2008 by lynsey gedye

Over on the Practice of Leadership, there’s been some discussion about Marsha Sinetar’s book, ‘Do What You Love, The Money Will Follow — Discovering Your Right Livelihood’. There’s no indication in the book that doing what you love will somehow … Continue reading →

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what did I want?

Posted on October 28, 2007 by lynsey gedye

What did I want? I wanted the hurtling moons of Barsoom. I wanted Storisende and Poictesme, and Holmes shaking me awake to tell me, “The game’s afoot!” I wanted to float down the Mississippi on a raft and elude a … Continue reading →

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every thing tells a story…

Posted on October 22, 2007 by lynsey gedye

Some years ago I took my Mum to Townsville, far north Queensland. She’d had some surgery that hadn’t gone well. I was working three part time jobs being as full time work was unavailable. It was the middle of winter … Continue reading →

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