What is play?
Working on a chapter called Playing with Dying, and now comes the question: What is play? In children it is rehearsal. It is letting the body be body—stretching, laughing, enjoying, hurting nicely, engaging other bodies, sobbing, heaving, falling, failing, reaching, touching, being touched, grasping, gasping. It is consuming all of one’s mental moments for the duration that extends past the edges of time. Play is thinking in the thick and gooey of the jam. Play is exploration: body, body-mind, and body, all. Play is a curious thing. Play is curiosity. Play is to stumble into: unexpected, and much anticipated.
:- Doug.
