by Leanne Kinney | Dec 30, 2013 | Holiday, Learning from Life
(cue “Pomp and Circumstance”) Sometime in the next 48 hours I might just don my mortarboard and a feather boa and have myself some commencement exercises. That is how I feel about leaving 2013 and heading into 2014. It has definitely been an awkward year, and I...
by Leanne Kinney | Sep 10, 2013 | Holiday, Learning from Life
(This isn’t new material, but I revisit these memories every year. 2013 is the first year I won’t do Godspell since 2009, but it won’t be far from my heart.) Where was I on September 11, 2001? I was at home. At the time, I was building a...
by Leanne Kinney | Sep 5, 2013 | Learning from Life
A few days ago, I got rebuked by a well-intentioned friend. He was probably right, for that matter, so maybe I shouldn’t even qualify his intentions. Whatever. This is what happened: I was holding a dear baby friend (literally, a friend who is a baby, as in one...
by Leanne Kinney | Aug 4, 2013 | Learning from Life
But yield who will to their separation, My object in living is to unite My avocation and my vocation As my two eyes make one in sight. Only where love and need are one, And the work is play for mortal stakes, Is the deed ever really done For Heaven and the...
by Leanne Kinney | Jul 16, 2013 | Analogies for Experience
One of the hardest lessons I’ve ever learned, a lesson that was amplified in the events of the last 16 months, is that some friendships are not what they appear to be. I think it happens a lot in the workplace, and I suspect that it’s simply because at work you have...
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