We don't like to think of ourselves as subject to the forces of the world, we like to think of ourselves as exerting that force.

If you think of play as being in things, there are things that are playable, then it becomes the work of figuring out what a thing can do.

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

Normally we think of play as the opposite of work. Work is the thing you have to do, and then there's play, the thing you choose to do.

You can experience play at work, not because you're messing around or wasting time or something, but because you're looking really deeply and seriously at things and asking what is possible, what can be done with them, what new ideas might emerge?

We don't like to think of ourselves as subject to the forces of the world, we like to think of ourselves as exerting that force.

Wouldn't we all rather have the possibility of finding pleasure and delight in literally anything we might encounter? Instead of assuming that actually there are only these three things where pleasure and delight are possible. Like oh, it's television and socialization and work, and then everything else is the smoke I have to somehow choke my way through in order to get to the good parts.