I think of [coliberation] as a shared transcendence of personal limitations, of our understanding of our own capabilities; a sudden, momentary transformation of our awareness of the connections between ourselves, each other, and the world we find each other in, between the actual and the imagined. …
Something we experience in certain moments of playing with children and animals, standing in a storm together floating in the ocean together, listening to and making music together… .
An unsustainable union where distinctions between self and community, mind and body, actual and imagined—between whatever separates us from each other—are set aside to reveal the environment in which we discover each other. …
Sudden, momentary, and unsustainable because we must ultimately return to ourselves, to “minding the store.” …
We return changed, not the same person we were: our understanding of who and what we can become, our very selves, our relationships—redefined.
Bernard De Koven ⬩ The Infinite Playground: A Player’s Guide to Imagination
added March 09, 2023 ⬩ random excerpt