Worldly limitations impose a new and welcome humility, for they force us to treat things as they are rather than as we wish them to be … Every playground has two basic properties, which are two sides of the same coin: boundaries and contents.*
Ian Bogost

Poetry takes something that we know already and turns it into something new.**
T. S. Eliot

When there are no boundaries.

Limitations make life richer –
When we see something for what it truly is, then
we can begin to play, to use our imagination, to
make something different, so
we pay humble attention:
Our life experience will equal
what we pay attention to.^

As a player, we may feel that what we do
is quite ordinary, but our everyday and obvious
may appear to others as freshness and originality,
Non-obvious and hopeful.

We begin the play by embracing the limitations, including
our own.

*Ian Bogost’s Play Anything;
**Madeleine L’Engle’s Walking on Water;
^William James, from Rob Walker’s The Art of Noticing.