320 Outdoor Diary: Taking Time to Seize the Play

Are you too grown-up to notice and enjoy play? I don’t mean you avoid it on purpose. I mean your grown-up brain just doesn’t see it, isn’t used to allowing it, crowds it out with other stuff and is just so, well, responsible.

Kids don’t have this problem. Play is how they learn and what they know. But adults, on the other hand …

Here’s what I learned this week by taking time to seize the play, and what it did for me. Listen now.

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Some of the good stuff:

[:31] Setting the stage on a beautiful summer day

[1:15] And then I forgot this thing

[1:36] The relief of play

[2:00] The burden of being a grown-up