by Leanne Kinney | Jun 12, 2015 | Analogies for Experience, Learning from Life
Tonight I had a frustrating (and still somehow fulfilling) conversation with a musician friend about the difficulties of our vocation, performing arts. It’s not a new problem, not a new story. We don’t even think about being able to retire someday because we are just...
by Leanne Kinney | May 11, 2014 | Learning from Life
You know what? Today didn’t start out very well. It started out with chipmunk damage to my car. What can be more ridiculous than that? In fact this year hasn’t started out very well. It has been stressful, to say the least, trying to get used to a new...
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...
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