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Daily Question, March 2

Where in my life do I find playfulness and adventure?

  • Sylvie

    Since I work with children and teenagers, I’m in contact with playfulness, adventures every day, as with their fears and sorrows. My own adventurous side has come short lately, and this question brought me in contact with it. Thank you.

  • Marshall Curtis

    Dumpster diving, to the point of hoarding almost. In fact, right now I got a load of junk in my condo! A few items I keep, but the rest I give away, mostly to the Goodwill, and then I write it off my taxes. It also helps to save landfill. It is amazing how wasteful people are nowadays! 90% of the stuff I find needs little or no repair and cleaning. One of my favorite finds from last year was a Vornado fan in perfect condition, which I still use a lot. I have also found numerous vacuum cleaners ...

    Dumpster diving, to the point of hoarding almost. In fact, right now I got a load of junk in my condo! A few items I keep, but the rest I give away, mostly to the Goodwill, and then I write it off my taxes. It also helps to save landfill. It is amazing how wasteful people are nowadays! 90% of the stuff I find needs little or no repair and cleaning. One of my favorite finds from last year was a Vornado fan in perfect condition, which I still use a lot. I have also found numerous vacuum cleaners and fixed them up (including the one I kept). I have even found a power inflatable guest bed, which works with only a slight leak. Today I found a couple of big wall hanger impressionist(?) paintings (a first, though no doubt prints).

    Also, I talk to my “pet” inflatable rubber ball, Geneva. Doing so helps me feel young, and helps put a limiter on my negativity. Because it helps me to externalize my problems. When I get negative, she would say “are we being negative again?” Yet, she is negative in her own right!
    ????…You got a problem with my negativity, just look in the mirror! (see what I mean?)

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  • Sharon

    Fun and adventure. I'm afraid I devalued those for much of my life out of fear and anxiety and a sense of deep shame when I "wasted time". But, in my senior years, I am learning that colouring just to create something pleasing to me, taking a path I've never been on while out walking, laughing at my foibles, and laughing out loud at a good comedy really rejuvenate me. So they can't be a waste of time after all. And trying something new can be exhilarating rather than scary. Never too late to lea...

    Fun and adventure. I’m afraid I devalued those for much of my life out of fear and anxiety and a sense of deep shame when I “wasted time”. But, in my senior years, I am learning that colouring just to create something pleasing to me, taking a path I’ve never been on while out walking, laughing at my foibles, and laughing out loud at a good comedy really rejuvenate me. So they can’t be a waste of time after all. And trying something new can be exhilarating rather than scary. Never too late to learn.

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  • Elaine

    I especially enjoy word play with my husband and with particular (similarly playful) friends. Every day can be and often is an adventure in random moments of connection and surprise. Yesterday we had a delightful excursion on our bikes to the local gardens to see the new mini bird sanctuary. Playful and adventurous in a simple way.

  • Francine Marie Tolf

    My goofy cat Lilly came to mind immediately. She brings out the affectionate, silly side of me! Thank God for animals.

  • Anita

    When I’m out in the woods walking, sitting in a creek – turning over stones for treasures, or at the ocean playing in the waves.Listening to music – dancing and singing. The truth is – NOT enough. Great question!

  • Hot Sauce

    I find playfulness and adventure whenever I play with or bond with animals, as I have a deep sense of care and love for them. I also find adventure in exploring new places when I am running. I like to run on trials and paths I have never been on before to see where they will take me and appreciate my new discoveries. I also enjoy theatre, as this allows me to temporarily take on a different identity and explore it, so as to have deeper insights into the nature of reality.

  • grateful sea

    Playfulness abounds when I say yes to the invitations of my dog's seven-year old, puppy heart. His desire to play is a bottomless well. The backyard is scattered with found objects that have caught his fancy. He has an especial knack for finding abandoned balls, an amazing assortment -- from tennis balls in various states of chewiness and peeled-ness, to hard shiny plastic balls, to a deflated folded-over kickball we call the green burrito, to his latest treasure a ratty old basketball he fou...

    Playfulness abounds when I say yes to the invitations of my dog’s seven-year old, puppy heart. His desire to play is a bottomless well. The backyard is scattered with found objects that have caught his fancy. He has an especial knack for finding abandoned balls, an amazing assortment — from tennis balls in various states of chewiness and peeled-ness, to hard shiny plastic balls, to a deflated folded-over kickball we call the green burrito, to his latest treasure a ratty old basketball he found in an eddy of the creek and carried home at great effort in his jaws. He loves them all. Not to mention dented frisbees, plastic bones and a prodigious stick collection. His favorite games are chase, fetch, keep-away, tug-of-war, splash… Sometimes he runs two or three full-speed circles around the outside of the house just for the sheer joy of it. I am so grateful for his extraordinarily playful companionship in my life.

    Adventure awaits when I examine something closely in nature and I begin to follow the trail of questions that arise. Life yesterday, when I came across a colony of odd plants growing out of a rock and later learned it is called walking fern. I am grateful for a curious mind.

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  • Deb

    I have to cultivate playfulness. Much as I appreciate and enjoy the daily moments, playfulness does not come naturally to me. But watching squirrels chase each other or kittens playing always remind me of the fun of playfulness.

  • Doreen Nixon

    I find it when I am out in Nature. There I feel connected and then playfulness and adventure seem to come natural. Along with koy.

  • kathleen

    With my students!.To connect with younger ones I have to bring out the play aspect of myself.

  • Barbara Morris

    I was brainstorming yesterday with my husband things we can do to have fun. I cant think of any activities i do just for the fun of it. If im doing work i usually enjoy it, but i dont think thats the same as playing. Im looking forward to reading everyone’s responses because i am at a loss. I was taught by my father that fun is selfish and irresponsible.

  • Michael

    Whenever I see a baby passing by in a stroller and she or he and I share a quick smile. What, joy! The adventure is in the hope that the spirit will spread.

  • Ose

    While being with the kids in my office, and the adventures to discover while being close to others, friends, loved ones or foreigners. To seek understanding, to support, if possible, to spend time together. Still, the question inspires to be more open to creativity concerning the playful aspects and to be more aware that every encounter is an adventure, unknown, not yet formed, and full of possibilities. Thank you for this question.

  • Michael

    my kids at home! my wife and her craziness! the students at work! I am grateful for the amount of times I SPD (smiles per day)

  • Eva Liu

    whenever I look around me, whether it’s at the interactions of people to one another or looking at the planes flying above and wondering where they’re going. life is always an adventure.

  • Kevin

    Whenever I spend time with my grandchildren, and, whenever I staff weekend retreats with Quaker children. (In fact, I leave today at noon to spend the weekend at a retreat for junior high-aged Quaker children.)

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