Posted in Explore, Play, Imagine, & Create, Possibility & Personal Growth on Aug 25th, 2008
Cheap Laughs
Laughter and jokes and play are undervalued in our serious adult world.
We think of all of these as entertainment, just a way to escape the stress and burdens of a threatening world which weighs us down.
Do you ever feel like you’re carrying more than you can bear?
Laughter picks up those burdens, and [...]
Posted in Explore, Play, Imagine, & Create, Possibility & Personal Growth on Sep 16th, 2007
Childhood’s End?
“Stop fooling around!”
Did you ever hear that from a parent or a teacher?
Maybe you ignored it and got into trouble.
Or, more likely, you eventually listened, and stopped.
But that wasn’t the end of your desire to play.
You probably still like to play in some way.
Although you probably don’t call it play, except when you [...]
Posted in Explore, Play, Imagine, & Create, Possibility & Personal Growth on Dec 12th, 2006
Play
As a child I loved to play, and I still do. I’m never so happy as when I’m playing with my children. When we play together, we let go of many of the rules that pretend to define us and shape us, and leave us free to explore.
When adults use the word play, they usually [...]
Posted in Explore, Play, Imagine, & Create on Aug 4th, 2006
My oldest daughter once gave my wife and me a simple personality test. Miriam loves personality tests. Yes, I find them intriguing as well. I love the idea of finding patterns and predictability in the wonderfully wild and unpredictable world of people and how they behave. But these tests only model a person’s behavior, and [...]
