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I’d like to do that a little more.

Elaboration Exercise # 2: More

Take an exercise of which a little more practice would seem enjoyable. Add another layer to it by combining another aspect of play discussed earlier. Borrow ideas from childhood, or ideas that might have made childhood richer. Use any references. Bring in extra materials. See what happens.

Send in the results, possibly as testimonials inscribed on odd surfaces. Send a sketch or a description or a photograph covered with personal annotations. Send a copy with additional notes in the margins spilling onto the image. Send them to anyone who will enjoy them, I will; or send them as a surprise. Let this thread elaborate into community outreach for valuing play. We could send it to someone we don’t know whom we think would do better what they do, if they valued their playful nature more fully. Reaching out to ask someone to play, our earliest social engagement skill still offers a viable and valuable proposition.

Unexpected Elaboration of play shows you how you approach playfulness. Elaboration allows you to add personal to what you have developed. It reveals what you sense at any given point in the process. In the realm of play, right ways don’t exist. You don’t get to anywhere. Equally your way represents only one way. In fact in elaborating play, as you mimic others, you knowingly and inadvertently borrow from others. We borrow from the vast experience of human community. This act of borrowing has to be washed clean of indoctrination about competition and winning outcomes to be authentically valued. The novelty of play comes from the inner experience of the individual or group.
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