Kevin's 'Excellent Advice for Living" has been my default graduation gift since I read it a few years ago (along side Seuss' "Oh, The Places You'll Go"). Your conversation about landscaping, mapping, travelling and science fiction mountain making as an enabler of humanity and connection reminds me of this Mark Twain quote:
"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime."
Wonderful to read this comment and the Twain quote, thank you Jasen. I had not thought of Twain in this context in a long time, but that might be some writing to revisit. Your comment also reminds me of a message about games from you which I hope I responded to (do I remember correctly?)...I will try and find it...
Quite possible given my love of play and Carse’s Infinite and Finite Games. Your interview with C Thi Nguyen would have been my first guess but I wasn't able to find anything there.
Relating back to your conversation with Kevin, games are a way we create and move mountains at a human scale. A game or puzzle is a microcosm world with rules that shape behaviour for its inhabitants. Exposure to different games and design landscapes is a form of world travel. It's often through synthesizing play across multiple contexts that we realize that we can design or shape aspects of our lives in more congruent, life- and love-affirming ways.
Kevin's 'Excellent Advice for Living" has been my default graduation gift since I read it a few years ago (along side Seuss' "Oh, The Places You'll Go"). Your conversation about landscaping, mapping, travelling and science fiction mountain making as an enabler of humanity and connection reminds me of this Mark Twain quote:
"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime."
https://www.stumpcraft.com/blogs/deepdives/deep-dive-silent-communion-by-graeme-shaw
Wonderful to read this comment and the Twain quote, thank you Jasen. I had not thought of Twain in this context in a long time, but that might be some writing to revisit. Your comment also reminds me of a message about games from you which I hope I responded to (do I remember correctly?)...I will try and find it...
Quite possible given my love of play and Carse’s Infinite and Finite Games. Your interview with C Thi Nguyen would have been my first guess but I wasn't able to find anything there.
Relating back to your conversation with Kevin, games are a way we create and move mountains at a human scale. A game or puzzle is a microcosm world with rules that shape behaviour for its inhabitants. Exposure to different games and design landscapes is a form of world travel. It's often through synthesizing play across multiple contexts that we realize that we can design or shape aspects of our lives in more congruent, life- and love-affirming ways.
🙏 excellent convo