by Leanne Kinney | Mar 25, 2013 | Analogies for Experience
This has been a season of waiting for me. In the book of Leanne, waiting produces metaphors. I’m not good at waiting. I’m not good at it at all. Over the last few years I’ve taught some beginning piano and theory lessons, and one of the things that beginners find...
by Leanne Kinney | Mar 18, 2013 | Analogies for Experience
But Charlie, don’t forget what happened to the man who suddenly got everything he always wanted …he lived happily ever after. (Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory) Several years ago I went over to my friend Wendy’s house for something or another...
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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