It is the limits that make it interesting, the limits that give us an edge to the box, something to leverage against. *
Seth Godin

*Seth Godin’s blog: Limitless.

Genre is a box, a set of boundaries, something the creative person can leverage against.  The limits of the genre are the place you can do your idiosyncratic work.*
Seth Godin

*Seth Godin’s The Practice.

we propose we need not time management but timelessness*
Maggie Berg and Barbara Seeber

*Maggie Berg and Barbara Seeber’s The Slow Professor.

To stay eager, to connect, to find interest in the everyday, to notice what everybody else overlooks – these are vital skills and noble goals.*
Rob Walker

*Rob Walker’s The Art of Noticing.

Play cultivates humility, for it requires us 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. Smartphone calculators? Not so much.**
Anne Lamott

We’re in life for the long haul,
Which can sound a little like gritting teeth,
But we have the wherewithal to play through life.
Humility – discovering our developing our
talents and abilities –
And gratitude – noticing and appreciating
our worlds,
Make it possible to play towards the generative qualities of
oneness, enoughness and perseverance.

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

Classically, the understanding of life, the unfolding identity and creativity, the notion of growth and discovery were articulated through the metaphor of the journey.*
John O’Donohue

When we play, we engage fully and intensely with life and its contents. Play bores through boredom in order to reach the deep truth of ordinary things.**
Ian Bogost

May you never be left without a journey to embark upon,
They are all around.

*John O’Donohue’s Divine Beauty;
**Ian Bogost’s Play Anything.

Wealth among traditional people is measured by having enough to give away … our word for the giveaway, minidewak, means “they give from the heart” … In the dance of the give-away, remember that the earth is a gift that we must passion on, just as it came to us.*
Robin Wall Kimmerer

That which came as a gift to me,
I am seeking to pass on.
It may look a little different now –
I’ve mixed it and shaped it together with other gifts I’ve received
over the years –
And it’s here for you,
If you wish to receive it.

The starting place for change is accepting oneself and taking an interest in one’s inner world.**

*Robin Wall Kimmerer’s Braiding Sweetgrass;
**Edward Deci’s Why We Do What We Do.