Say I enter into play with a plan – to win, to prove that capitalism is evil, to play in A minor, to eliminate a disease, to cut down a tree. In each of these, divine play is cut off, negated, and not allowed to flourish.

But for you, oh God of Play, all conversation, all thinking, all feel- ing, all making of music, all dance, all drawing, has one simple di- vine goal – to play. And yes, I don’t always achieve this goal. There are moments when I get riled up, where I get furious, sometimes because I see another holding so dearly onto an idea or desire so firmly. “This must be that,” they say. And now I am so angry! I put all my energy into a negation so that this person sees how wrong they are. I put all my energy into the opposing position (no matter how right or wrong it is) to loosen up the certainty of their position.