Kelly said to me once: “Play is play. Play doesn’t have to be or lead to anything else but fun.” But what about the bigger things it can give you—the open heart, the happy exhaustion, the present moment, something beyond you, which is people to play with? It’s the peace of concentration, it’s a welcome—“I’m so glad you’re here!” Play is learning how to wait, how to applaud someone else’s success, how to let others go first. It’s reciprocity and laughter.
