let's play...

we were all craving for sushi last night... 

so we visited our local japanese grocery to pick some up 

and headed to playfair park for a picnic.

after satisfying our bellies with such fresh and yummmmy delicacies, the kids wandered
 around this beautiful park and found the playground.

one yelled "let's play !!!" and they were off into another dimension...

they were laughing so hard that i had to capture some of the action.

here are some inspirational quotes i found on the Internet on why play is so important...

 

"we don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing..." george bernard shaw

 "you can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation."  plato

"each player must accept the cards life deals him or her, but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game..." voltaire

 "there is work that is work and there is play that is play, there is play that is work and work that is play.  and in only one of these lies happiness."  gelett burgess

 "the playing adult steps sideward into another reality, the playing child advances forward 
to new stages of mastery."  erik h. erikson

 "those who play rarely become brittle in the face of stress or lose 
the healing capacity for humor."stuart brown, md

 "it is a happy talent to know how to play"  ralph waldo emerson

 "the creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct"  carl jung

 "children learn as they play.  most importantly, in play children learn how to learn."  

o fred donaldson

 "almost all creativity involves purposeful play." abraham maslow

"a person's maturity consists in having found again the seriousness one had as a child at play."
frederic nietsche

 "play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game"
winston churchill

"some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again."  c.s.lewis

 "you have to learn the rules of the game.  and then you have to play better than anyone else." 
albert einstein

 "in every real man a child is hidden that wants to play"  friedrich nietzsche

 "necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father." 

roger von oech

erica

xoxo