You have your own stories, the dramatic and more ordinary moments where what has gone wrong becomes an opening to more of yourself and part of your gift to the world. This is the beginning of wisdom.*
Krista Tippett

I’m really glad it didn’t work;
I’d been trying for sixteen years in three different places, but,
finally,
I stopped the striving –
Maybe, if I’d have got it to work, I would be still in that role,
But that would be a shame, because when I embraced getting it wrong, I was
set upon a path that has carried me to
the most fulfilling service I have been able to make, and the path
continues to unfold.

*Krista Tippett’s Becoming Wise.

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.