The Band Director's Lessons About Life: Volume 1: 50 Parables on Life's Performance Cycle - Softcover

Lee, Donald

Softcover

ISBN 10: 199921093X ISBN 13: 9781999210939

Publisher: Booklocker.com, 2019

Synopsis

It’s tough to find your way in the no-man’s-land between traditional religious dogma and New Age “woo-woo”. Spiritual author and speaker Donald Lee masterfully reveals a common-sense and universal view of spirituality in his new book of modern-day parables.

Do you feel adrift in a sea of conflict? Do you feel your life needs direction? Has your spiritual journey got you lost in the woods? “The Band Director’s Lessons About Life” offers simple advice and relatable stories from your friendly, neighborhood band director. Using music as a metaphor for life, each little parable begins with a story from school and ends with a reflection on the spiritual meaning of the story.

How to:

+ Find your path.
+ Be yourself.
+ Persevere through struggles.
+ Learn from failure, and
+ Love the process.

Fifty stories and reflections to pick you up, dust you off, and set you on your way. Or take five minutes before bed to read a parable. You’ll sleep with a positive, inspirational message in your mind.

Donald Lee draws on decades as both a band director and a religion teacher to expertly craft band room vignettes that are both entertaining and illuminating. Whether you’re a Sunday pew-warmer, a hermit monk, or a high-mileage astral traveler, you’ll find something to love, cherish, and chuckle at in these fascinating stories. Pick up your copy today!

“If you pick up this collection, consider that you found a treasure. I do. It both entertains me, and inspires me.”
Archbishop Gerard Pettipas, C.Ss.R
Archbishop of Grouard-McLennan

“The stories made me laugh. The reflections made me think. These lessons are for everyone.”
Joanne Byfield,
Journalist, Radio/TV Producer

About this title

About the Author

Donald Lee is an author, speaker, spiritual teacher, economist, band director, and musician - a real Renaissance Man. Donald melds his decades of experience as a band director and religion teacher along with his life-long spiritual quest to weave a book of modern-day parables: shining spiritual light on ordinary life.

From the Back Cover

This book's for you!

It's a cross between Chicken Soup for the Soul, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten, and Conversations with God. If you liked any of those books, you'll love this one.

In The Band Director's Lessons About Life, author Donald Lee draws on his decades as both a band director and religion teacher to create modern-day parables from the classroom. People of any religious persuasion - or none - will be delighted and inspired by how these band-room vignettes shine a spiritual light on everyday experiences. The parables are short enough to read in the bathroom yet deep enough to ponder for days.

Every little event has a spiritual dimension - tuning the flute section, a terrible performance, a broken clarinet, and even the ugly band uniforms. You'll recognize the characters, chuckle at their misadventures, and maybe even learn something about yourself. If you've been a kid, if you love music, this book's for you!

"If you pick up this collection, consider that you found a treasure. I do. It both entertains me, and inspires me."
Archbishop Gerard Pettipas, C.Ss.R.
Archbishop of Grouard-McLennan

"The stories made me laugh. The reflections made me think. These lessons are for everyone."
Joanne Byfield,
Journalist,Radio Host, TV Producer

"Lessons About Life is a well-written, insightful, inspiring work of art presented in a thoughtful, thoroughly enjoyable way. It's timely and highly applicable in today's world. Donald's students were blessed, and now readers will reap the same benefit."
Michele Preisendorf, Editor with Eschler Editing

"Every chapter is a gem that helps one become a better person, a better student, and a better teacher. I will recommend this work to all my music education students. Bravo Donald!"
Dr.Tom Dust
Professor- Secondary Music Education
University of Alberta

"If you need a little boost in your life, this is the book for you."
Neil Wilkinson

Past President, Toastmasters International

Edition details

• Publisher: Booklocker.com
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 199921093X
• ISBN 13: 9781999210939
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 244