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Life Lessons From a Farmer on a Tractor

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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You Too, Can Make Metaphor Magic

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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.”

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Cup o’ Inspiration

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Take a short break and consider the following:

“If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for each individual to learn to laugh at himself.”

Charles M. Schulz

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