The idea of thinking of our relationships with people as also being structured by limitations and constraints can be useful.

God will not speak to me and tell me to mow my lawn today.

A fun movie is something that is pleasurable without being demanding, you don't have to think too hard.

Actually a lot of the supposedly serious and meaningful and worthwhile content on the podcast or on the television is no more or less meaningful than the clothes in the laundry basket or the dishes in the sink. It's more a matter of the attention you're willing to bring to them, where you're willing to allow meaning and pleasure and the light to escape.

Even when we tell kids to go play, what do the kids do? They come up with a set of constraints and structures. "Oh, we're gonna build a fort out of clothes, and now that we're in the fort we're going to pretend that we're prisoners," or whatever.

My lawnmower can't change in the way that my son can or that I can.

Generally speaking, when people use the word fun, it's like a placeholder. You know, "How was your evening?" "Oh it was fun."