Filling Time |
Monday Nov 10 2008
By Jim Selman | Bio
I notice lately that a lot of my conversations with older friends revolve around the question “What do you want to do?” This is usually followed by a smorgasbord of choices ranging from recreation to entertainment to ‘just hanging out’. It sounds a lot like the conversations my children used to have on a Saturday afternoon. It seems to me that this kind of conversation is about filling time, rather than intentional or purposeful choices. It is about picking from available options, rather than creating the game we might create if there were no constraints. When we were very young, we seemed to be much more adept at creating games out of thin air with a lot less effort.[Read More]
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