“It’s all around us, yet goes mostly unnoticed or unappreciated until it is missing ...”
Stuart Brown
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"a distinctive, often indefinable quality, characteristic, or feeling that makes a person, object, or experience exceptional, unique, or particularly appealing. It is a colloquial way of acknowledging a particular essence that is difficult to describe with specific words."
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"Play is the vital essence of life. It is what makes life lively."
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"What is adaptive about play, therefore, may be not only the skills that are a part of it but also the willful belief in acting out one's own capacity for the future. The opposite of play, in these terms, is not a present reality or work, it is vacillation, or worse, it is depression. To play is to act out and be willful, as if one is assured of one's prospects. A weakness of many of the self-oriented play theories is that they often sound too much like vain consumerism instead of being about the more passionate and willful character of human play, which involves a willingness, even if a fantasy, to believe in the play venture itself."
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"Its scholarly disciplines appear to be those of leisure and recreation. Its theorists are followers of New Age thinking or the book The Channeling Zone (Brown, 1996). Its hegemony is the superiority of those who have access to the kind of places (aerobics classes, gymnasiums, ski slopes) where such experiences are available."
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"What is adaptive about play, therefore, may be not only the skills that are a part of it but also the willful belief in acting out one's own capacity for the future. The opposite of play, in these terms, is not a present reality or work, it is vacillation, or worse, it is depression. To play is to act out and be willful, as if one is assured of one's prospects. A weakness of many of the self-oriented play theories is that they often sound too much like vain consumerism instead of being about the more passionate and willful character of human play, which involves a willingness, even if a fantasy, to believe in the play venture itself."
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"Its scholarly disciplines appear to be those of leisure and recreation. Its theorists are followers of New Age thinking or the book The Channeling Zone (Brown, 1996). Its hegemony is the superiority of those who have access to the kind of places (aerobics classes, gymnasiums, ski slopes) where such experiences are available."
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