Play cultivates humility, for it requires is to treat things as they are rather than as we wish them to be.*
Ian Bogost

Play is part of developing trust. Play opens the heart and gives focus and delight, like an abacus did when we were young. Smart phone calculators? Not so much.**
Anne Lamott

The temptation is to fight seriousness
with seriousness –
When it comes to my health, or
the new, unfamiliar circumstances
I find myself in, but
If play cultivates humility –
The fullness of who I am, and
the fullness of who you are –
Then I can only imagine it also propagates
gratitude – the fullness of what I have –
And more, it develops
faithfulness – the fullness of
what I am able to do,
A player more than I am being
played upon.

And we have each others backs as
those who can be trusted,
Being humble, grateful, and faithful folk.

*Ian Bogost’s Play Anything;
**Anne Lamott’s Almost Everything.