by Leanne Kinney | Mar 12, 2013 | Learning from Life
What I got they used to call the blues– Nothin’ is really wrong… Rainy days and Mondays always get me down. (Roger Nichols and Paul Williams) After I got home yesterday and the rain started pouring (again,) I started to lose a lot of last...
by Leanne Kinney | Mar 7, 2013 | Analogies for Experience, Learning from Life
“Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong.” – Peter T. McIntyre Once upon a time I was a daredevil. I was doing things that made my mom laugh (and probably scared her half to death) long before I can remember. ...
by Leanne Kinney | Mar 5, 2013 | Analogies for Experience
“Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.” – E.B. White Relationships are like plates. Disposable plates are one of life’s great paradoxes to me. Yes, they are inexpensive, but never, ever reusable. It doesn’t matter...
by Leanne Kinney | Feb 25, 2013 | Analogies for Experience, Learning from Life
Prologue: I wrote the text of this blog a while back, almost 3 years ago, in fact. Yes, sometimes I recycle stuff I wrote before, and I updated this material to publish a couple of weeks back. In one of those bizarre turns of events that can only make me think that...
by Leanne Kinney | Feb 20, 2013 | Analogies for Experience, extraordinary people, General anecdotes
“In Zen Buddhism a master was once asked what was the most valuable thing in the world, and the master answered that a dead cat was, because no one could put a price on it.” Raise High the Roof Beams, Carpenters, J.D. Salinger This is a story about a cat funeral, but...
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