Thanks for sharing your thoughts Sean. We modern Americans are so busy, and so biased towards sheer survival, that anything that smacks of play gets shunted aside. Same with exercise, or living without screens, or healthy eating… things that used to be just organic parts of being human, are now things we must choose deliberately. Play is the same way. Playing as a creative, purposeful act is something that doesn’t just happen. It has to be understood as a virtue and space made for it to happen.
As I learned in my recreation degree program: Recreation is re-creation :-)
Thanks for sharing your thoughts Sean. We modern Americans are so busy, and so biased towards sheer survival, that anything that smacks of play gets shunted aside. Same with exercise, or living without screens, or healthy eating… things that used to be just organic parts of being human, are now things we must choose deliberately. Play is the same way. Playing as a creative, purposeful act is something that doesn’t just happen. It has to be understood as a virtue and space made for it to happen.