I have just received an invitation to join [The Play Ethic Network](The Play Ethic). It looks like Pat is moving forward with his initial articles on play into something larger.
Pat Kane, founder of the Play Ethic says:
In an information age which values energy, knowledge and optimism, we need a better productive ethos than the ‘work ethic’, Puritan or otherwise. THE PLAY ETHIC is our attempt to start a new argument about the role of creativity in our lives. What’s the most sustaining relationship between our passions and our technologies? Between our deep aspirations to meaning and purpose, and the organizations which so often thwart those aspirations? Between who we are, and what we do? Play, understood in all its proper complexity, is a penetrating way of answering these questions.
Learning how to play again is an important part of keeping sane and enjoying life again. I watch my young daughter and her friends play. They aren’t walled in like many adults are and through her I’m learning to play again as well. I’m seeing for the first time the differences between how boys and girls play and I must say I wish I was amongst rought-and-tumble of the boys again.