Month: October 2020
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Why Adults Need Regular Playtime
You don’t need a month in Maui to create time in your schedule to play. You only need to believe that adults need regular playtime. Enjoy this DailyFind, love from CW! Scientific research shows that engaging in a recreational activity purely for the pleasure of it is essential for our mental and physical health and…
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Yes, Adults Need Playtime
According to Brian Sutton-Smith, ‘play involves the willful belief in acting out one’s own capacity for the future.’ Not to spoil it for you but, the opposite of play is NOT work – it is depression. Enjoy this DailyFInd, love from CW! Hands skimming across the monkey bars. The pleasing rhythm of the swings. An…
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A LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® CreaSpaTreat is what I built during the pandemic
“The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct.” – Carl Jung I never intended to create something during a pandemic in 2020. I didn’t think my last International landing at YVR in early March 2020 might be the last touchdown for a year or more. Being grounded…
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Boccaccio on the Black Death
What a creative way to spend time in isolation and to chronicle the effects on human civilization. Enjoy this DailyFind, love from CW! One of the primary sources on the outbreak was the Italian writer and poet Giovanni Boccaccio (l. 1313-1375 CE), best known for his work The Decameron (written 1349-1353 CE), which tells the…
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How Artists Tried to Make Sense of the 1918 Flu Pandemic
It is interesting to look back at recent history and draw parallels to life during the Covid-19 pandemic. Enjoy this DailyFind, love from CW! But the flu did not go unnoticed by artists. Rather, the outbreak magnified the absurdity of the moment, according to art historian Corinna Kirsch. For many, World War I and the…