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

The modern world is very wealthy, it's full of options. It's not like "This is the land I was born on and I have to make the most of it, and these are the people who are near me, and so they will become my family."

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.

We have so many choices that it's only always our fault if we're malcontent.

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

There's just an enormous vast universe of possible intrigue out there and why not pay attention to it? Because then you're not burdened with trying to find that meaning in yourself all the time.

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.