As I grow older I recognize that the people I have most admired and learned from are all playful people. They experiment. They receive the “spur of the moment” and respond. They try out alternative points of view. They pretend for the sheer pleasure of peering down a road not taken. And their capacity for intense, focused, productive work is sustained by the wisdom that allows them to suspend that work for a whole afternoon while they throw a ball around with a ten-year-old or hide behind trees waiting to be found, or sit cross-legged on the floor in front of a game board, caring less about the outcome than about the little opponents for whom this competition has the look of love.
— Marilyn McEntyre, Adverbs for Advent
Bologna 