Where do you find your life lessons?
Play acts as a forward feed mechanism into courageous, creative, rigorous thinking…
— Tina Bruce
Sometimes life lessons are learned the hard way… and afterwards, we pick ourselves up and ask: Ok, what did I learn? And then we carry on.
Sometimes life lessons are learned the easy way… they’re delivered by other people who have learned and shared.
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Send us some metaphors for your life, your trials and tribulations, your joys and your passions.
In my last post I shared a reader’s description of grief over significant personal losses:
Think of my grief as a wave and I’m on a surfboard. I must watch that I don’t lose my balance and become engulfed by the water. Water has power and can drown me. But I don’t want to drown, so I will stay on top of the wave of grief and let it carry me to the shore where I will be safe and feel stable. This wave will crash and I will have survived. I will be stronger for having made it to shore unharmed. But I will never forget the ride.
Besides touching my heart, our reader demonstrated how potent Metaphor can be as a tool for understanding and working through our personal challenges. Jose Ortega y Gasset, a prolific Spanish philosopher says this about metaphor: “[It] is perhaps one of man’s most fruitful potentialities. Its [power] verges on magic… a tool for creation which God forgot inside one of his creatures when he made him.”
Continue reading » You Too, Can Make Metaphor Magic

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