February 23 2015

Five Minute Friday (on Monday)

PLAY. I believe PLAY is an important part of life! When we are children, we love to PLAY. We go on PLAY dates and PLAY with our friends. As we get older (and really old, like me) I wonder, do we still PLAY? How does PLAY look different for you now? As a young child, PLAY meant make believe and running around and climbing trees and laughing a lot! PLAY doesn’t look like that anymore. I don’t climb trees anymore. (Why not?!?!) I don’t make believe. I don’t run around.

I laugh. I talk. I spend my PLAY time with people that I love. We take walks, go to the gym, go see movies, eat dinner out, shop, make crafts, talk about books and share our writing. To me, that’s my PLAY time. When I look back at that list, I guess I do make believe, when I read fiction and write! I do still run around, when I walk and go to the gym. I don’t climb trees.

PLAY time feeds my soul! It gives me energy for another day. 

February 6 2015

Five Minute Friday: PLAY

PLAY. I love words that can be both nouns and verbs. Going to the theater and seeing a PLAY is one of my favorite ways to spend my time! I also like to PLAY with my friends…but adults don’t call that PLAY. Why not? When do we get too old to play? Hmmm…I guess middle school is around the time that you stop having “PLAY dates” and you start “hanging out” with your friends. I’m thinking…and thinking…I guess that stays the same. When I call a friend, I never say, “Do you want to come over and play?” or “Do you want to go out and play?” That makes me sad. 

I am going to start doing that! We all need PLAY time in our lives. Work keeps me busy. I have many responsibilities outside of work. They all make me happy, but PLAYing is silly and carefree! PLAYing is giggling and not caring what anyone thinks.