Playing and fun are not the same thing, though when we grow up we may forget that and find ourselves mixing up playing with happiness. There can be a kind of amnesia about the seriousness of playing, especially when we played by ourselves.
Lynda BarryA man who has been dead for a week in a hot trailer looks more like a man than you would first expect.
Lynda BarryThe point of the daily diary exercise is not to record what you already know about what happened to you in the last 24 hours. Instead, itโs an invitation to the back of your mind to come forward and reveal to you the perishable images about the day you didnโt notice you noticed at all.
Lynda Barry