and yes I did the math because i have a
nerdy girl i am such a nerdy girl that I
was on the slide rule between in high
school and I know if I say the word
slide rule I’m dating myself but I was
dating myself in high school so some
things but we have so much pressure to
behave in a certain manner when we see
somebody that we like shake a hand even
though the American Medical Association
was told this in Tibet is the worst
thing you could possibly do to somebody
because you’re sharing your colors with
germs but if doing this it’s not a
possibility what are we doing I am
blessed with people who are adults or
seem to be adults physiologically and
yet they still remember how to play
that’s because when I meet people who
have a sense of joy and childishness to
them I stop them until they take it in
green be my friends it’s a good policy
for me Bob and so I have several of my
friends what they regularly shoot for
play my friend melody is part of a
zombie flash mob and they regularly
dance to a number of different songs not
just Michael Jackson’s thrillers while
dressed up in costumes often as zombies
and that would be categorized as I am
friend Jodie much to hike as many
this they do but she likes to hide in
costume and she sent me a picture of her
and a friend dressed as giant bananas up
in the mountain trail come around the
bend and we think you’re out of it you
came out of loose the nation that will
just be a friend of mine my friend
Jennifer night one of the ways that we
bonded is we both love hula-hooping she
takes her with her wherever she goes and
I taught gerunds and infinitives to the
grammar class at the School of
Journalism and communications while hulu
I’m pretty sure those students never
forget that lesson on jared’s and
evidence because of the boat and I got
to have fun while I was doing it so
there are people who understand it but
mostly the people who understand the
value of play or the children love that
kind of are the children and not the
adults and so we want to start moving in
the direction of how do we get to be
more childlike so in my life as a
speaker who talks about humor and stress
management there he finished statistic
out in the ether that said the average
American child laughs 150 to 200 times a
day and I discovered there was no
research
and being very girl i decided i need to
do the research so i got permission from
wayne county head start in the parents
of the students at Lane County head
start to follow three four and five year
olds around for the day what are the
best experiences I a member and a little
four-year-old boy asked me on a date to
play Legos at it out that’s the closest
I come dating in the past eight years
almost took it up on it and I followed
them and every time they laughed I made
a note of it and I noted what they were
doing at the time and then i
extrapolated because i am a dirty girl
to the number of hours their parents
said that they were usually up and it
came out than 150 to 200 times a day is
approximately right and this is not for
every three four and five year old but
most three four five year old or
laughing a lot and what do you think
they were laughing what were they doing
when they were laughing they were
playing they were not telling jokes we
have this belief in our mind that
laughter comes from something is funny
do you know that only thirty percent of
the reasons we laugh have to do with
anything being perceived as funny by our
brains and so we can tap into that other
seventy percent which comes from play
and social body which also happens when
we’re playing with other people so they
were playing 150 to 200 last day what do
you think it is for grown-ups it is 15
the constellations is that high as I
bring your average up
and that is a lot of weight to carry on
my shoulders on days when maybe I fall
behind a little bit people actually did
this study they follow the sales of
american adults around i’m glad that i
followed the children it was probably a
lot less boring and they follow them
around for a week and they calculated
how often people laugh and there were
forty percent of the people in this
study lab zero to three times a day and
it was the people the ten percent of the
people like me last 90 times a day or
more who skewed the meat and so when I
ask you that question you think well
it’s too or it’s fine for its twenty
that’s probably the situation that
you’re in and you’ll probably mitigate
that level of laughter and one of the
easiest ways to move us in the direction
of getting more laps is to move us in
the direction of being more playful as
well so where are my parents raise your
hand if you’re a parent okay excellent
grandparents okay so you all understand
the value of claim for children right we
have it it’s it’s in what we are is
parental units I am a canine parental
unit unit in person but I also
understand that I in place that too so
play for small children helps with
mental development it helps with
physical development it helps with
social bonding building friendship
networks and creating boundaries it does
all of those things for grownups too it
also when your adult helps you build
flexibility and resilience and
creativity
thinking outside of your usual comfort
zone and it does so many amazing things
and one of them is it increases your
willingness to take risk and when we’re
not willing to take risk our lives are
so very limited to the little runt we
have drawn for ourselves on the ground
our entire lives and we really the step
out of that and do something crazy like
I dressed myself this morning can you
tell me looks like a five and a half
year old did that so we need to aspire
to do that the crazy thing is that every
study done so far has found that there
is no species that does not have a left
replacements and if you have dogs if you
have cats if you had bird I have koi
fish I know with my oh my gosh a
plateful my of one watch it jumps up out
of the water enjoy where this river eyes
we have a last play response because
laughter plague has a biological
function and that is so kind and if
we’re not playing enough we’re not
laughing enough and if we’re not
laughing and if we’re not venting our
stressful energy let’s go bad we can let
them go more quickly if we can find the
playful side of that so we need to be
doing that more so let me tell you what
I think play is because many of you may
think you’re playing and I may disagree
off maybe you may play words with
friends or tennis or candy crush or a
bridge for example that would not follow
my
definition of place so I have to come up
with a 4-letter acronym for play and it
spells out the P stands for physical and
my definition of physical means you must
use your body in a way that you are
unaccustomed to using that brings you
joy so that means play tennis even
though it’s physical you’re a custom you
know the moves you practice the moves
that doesn’t fit as play there’s an old
Calvin and Hobbes cartoon and I will
summarize it and Calvin comes up to his
daddy says dad why don’t grown-ups play
and dances well we do we just call it
working out and we have to keep notes on
how well we’re doing towards achieving
our goals and counted so you just take
place take all the fun out of it and
basically that’s where to me the
difference is between play and work and
think about how many things in your life
with the word work on people always tell
me where your workshop is I going to
know my place shoppings because I don’t
want to do any more work i’m going to do
some play and we want to be physical in
a way the challenges our bodies so I
teach improv class and it implies one
minute you could be an octopus learning
a superhero name kitten woman loses
superpowers are shredding the Drake
reason going that is the kind of play
that we’re talking about we want to get
physical do you know that one of the
best ways to get more muscle memory to
remember what it was like to be a
fighter no business that’s all it took
you’re down at the eye level of five
year where do you get when you breathe a
small child or a dog and in what
attitude are you when you greet a small
child or don’t so go to the point
imagine going into a retailer gonna
change everything so physical we want to
be physical in a way that is
uncomfortable now when I say physical I
mean from head to toe your eyebrows are
part of your face how many how often
have you done something like this like
right we don’t do that because it’s
stupid we don’t do that because it’s
silly we don’t do that because our ego
says don’t do that people know they do
an oddball you know what you’re on balls
we’re all on bones we should celebrate
that instead of hiding that so remember
it had children knees and toes knees
into the back of body the whole thing L
stands for laughter in reducing I’ve
been here the whole day I can tell which
if you know
laughs not all of you do because does
not count it will get you any of the
benefits that you need to get from
laughter and playing either will well
there was a music major Oh which stands
for lying because you know what I know
it studies have shown that when you’re
typing LOL you are not laughing out loud
and for God’s sakes you are not rolling
on the floor so stop typing in Tokyo
have bruises on your hips you are not
rolling on the floor so when I see
mopping out well I mean where’s my
microphone you see how much that hurts
me one minute belly laughing is
equivalent in terms of abdominal toning
firstly I think reality to Van Slyke a
washboard mf’s like a dashboard now a
little built-in air bag there’s already
two things I don’t bruises easily sit
we’re good so you need to work on the
laughter so play laughter adventurous
you need to be uncomfortable we have so
much of a fear of getting outside of our
comfort zone and outside your comfort
zone ADIZ where joy lies outside of your
comfort zone is were creativity lines
and it’s definitely one plane light um
two years ago my friend Jennifer of the
hula hooping person Jennifer invited me
to do a naked photo shoot with 50 other
women outside I don’t gotta shower they
get Michael well I need to live up to my
expectations if there’s something so I
said yes so what a giant warehouse the
photograph is amazing and it’s a
feminist photo and it’s worth taking
women taking power back from politics
and and the medical community of
journalists and we’re chasing these
people down but we are naked we are
outside then we across bertelsen and 11
part besides the whole because Jennifer
brother who loop so we knew we had
strange women getting mud on our body
standing in a kiddie pool it was amazing
and also amazing i’m standing there
naked like they got a contact with a
woman she and I could tell she knows who
I am and I have no idea and she comes up
to me she says Professor Joshua I took
your grammar class I’m thinking and now
adventurous and the last one is youthful
you must wanna play not feeding your age
and in fact if you’ve done a good job
for two or three hours you must not
figure eight later with a hot pack in
the hub I feel your age but we want to
be as useful as possible and get to that
to me the idea of flow flow simply has
to do with being useful because you’ve
they’re not aware of the passage of time
youth are not aware of the burden of
responsibility that we grown up humans
carry around all the time so physical
laughter reducing adventurism youthful
so I want to give you just a couple of
quick tips easiest one you see what I’m
wearing these are span these are fan
decks right fresh to play when you are
wearing uncomfortable clothing you are
not in a playful mood I once did a
presentation for a group of upper level
financial officers for the state of
Oregon and they all came in in their
suits and ties and there were 100
of them they sat down and I said to them
would you take off your shoes and the
women just went crazy oh but take these
shoes so you know how much is it burning
my feet Oh like why do we do things like
that spandex I mean not spandex I mean
spanks one of the least playful body
garments ever invented if I have never
worked Warren space over a cheap British
knockoff version occasionally called a
slight tap of the Baltimore the way to
them don’t wear them they’re not playful
because you can’t be playful if you if
you have an opportunity to play frisbee
in the parking lot yet you’re wearing
high heels and spanks at a time which
would be kind of an interesting day and
you’re not going to do make playful
friends people who not only encourage
you to play and don’t become one of
those voices in your head to get up
given balancing me we all have those
people i’m not saying don’t those people
consider telling those people but
definitely make more friends who
encouraged you to play my friend Donna
LeBlanc her husband developed late-stage
Alzheimer’s after several years of
having Alzheimer’s and had to go to live
in an Alzheimer’s care facility and he
no longer remembered her and he no
longer remembered their 50-year marriage
and for six months she spiraled into
depression and Donna it’s one of the
most joyful playful people I’ve ever met
and she called me after six months and
said I am so tired of feeling this way
I’ve decided to become happy again and I
know that the only person who could do
that
be in sochi what she decided to do since
her husband didn’t recognize her he
decided every time she went to see if
she’d be somebody else this sure she’s
in a ready she’s wearing a platinum
blonde regalos she start high heels this
he stashed shaded the that’s my ID
obsession apparently association to the
nursing hope that made their day you’ve
ever been into dementia care center you
know that’s a very difficult place to be
and her husband spotted her from across
the way that he recognized Marilyn do
you know any better she said they dated
in high school which made him very happy
that you made her very happy and unless
that I want to give you as hiding here
behind someone let me know if you need
to challenge your ego on a regular basis
if you allow your ego to run your life
you will never play you’ll never get out
of your comfort zone and you won’t
really experience the level of joy that
I believe human beings are meant to
experience and i will show you about
easy it is to know you’re meant to
experience that joy how many of you want
this weight might give it to you
somebody’s going to get it to a child or
a dog or a cat because we don’t have
played somebody says yes I’m kind of
place your order to you so challenging
ego can be difficult especially if
you’ve never done it before a lot edit
you know if you fly a lot you’re always
try to catch your connecting flight
resist always at the other end of the
airport and so you need people to get
hot women naked I’ll free after six CD
jury he’ll go oh no way I don’t ever do
that even among strangers do you think I
might have a better experience in the
airport that most people do because I
really good play I always recommend that
everybody keeping their glove box a
cannibal snout so the next time you’re
stuck in traffic you strapped on to
smell here till change your entire how
could it not change your perspective I
got a presentation for educators in
Salem and a woman emailed me the next
day and said she’d gone out of lunch i
bought a pig snout and the guy should
order to follow her pull into 7-eleven
parking lot she rolled her window down
just a little bit and the man that I
really not dangerous what’s where the
pics now she was quick on her feet and
said I can marry the 27 years mr. way we
keep the spark and everything going hope
that you are inspired to it subway
whether it’s to go to the local school
yard is get on the swings by the way if
you get on the monkey bars remember that
if you hang by your knees from the
monkey barred in order to get out of
that position you have to rotate through
your shoulders don’t ask me how I know
this I had a seven-year a boy tried to
explain to me how to get off the monkey
bars yelled a good Irish stuck to my
show
rotate the way that they used to so
stick to the swings of the slide
enrollment improv class make friends
with five year olds and eight-year-olds
because a lot more people in their
eighties play than people in their 40s
and 50s and 60s I want to end with two
quotes that I find really inspiring the
first is by one of my favorite authors
and artists Brian Andreas and it’s a
reminder from children in and it goes
like this I wouldn’t mind being a grown
up she said if I didn’t have to get up
every morning and be grumpy right away
very sad but when i was at wayne county
head start and asking kids with their
parents did some fun three of them said
sleep and my last quote is by tom
robbins who changed my life in so many
ways and it is it’s never too late to
have a happy childhood so I wish that for you as well
nerdy girl i am such a nerdy girl that I
was on the slide rule between in high
school and I know if I say the word
slide rule I’m dating myself but I was
dating myself in high school so some
things but we have so much pressure to
behave in a certain manner when we see
somebody that we like shake a hand even
though the American Medical Association
was told this in Tibet is the worst
thing you could possibly do to somebody
because you’re sharing your colors with
germs but if doing this it’s not a
possibility what are we doing I am
blessed with people who are adults or
seem to be adults physiologically and
yet they still remember how to play
that’s because when I meet people who
have a sense of joy and childishness to
them I stop them until they take it in
green be my friends it’s a good policy
for me Bob and so I have several of my
friends what they regularly shoot for
play my friend melody is part of a
zombie flash mob and they regularly
dance to a number of different songs not
just Michael Jackson’s thrillers while
dressed up in costumes often as zombies
and that would be categorized as I am
friend Jodie much to hike as many
this they do but she likes to hide in
costume and she sent me a picture of her
and a friend dressed as giant bananas up
in the mountain trail come around the
bend and we think you’re out of it you
came out of loose the nation that will
just be a friend of mine my friend
Jennifer night one of the ways that we
bonded is we both love hula-hooping she
takes her with her wherever she goes and
I taught gerunds and infinitives to the
grammar class at the School of
Journalism and communications while hulu
I’m pretty sure those students never
forget that lesson on jared’s and
evidence because of the boat and I got
to have fun while I was doing it so
there are people who understand it but
mostly the people who understand the
value of play or the children love that
kind of are the children and not the
adults and so we want to start moving in
the direction of how do we get to be
more childlike so in my life as a
speaker who talks about humor and stress
management there he finished statistic
out in the ether that said the average
American child laughs 150 to 200 times a
day and I discovered there was no
research
and being very girl i decided i need to
do the research so i got permission from
wayne county head start in the parents
of the students at Lane County head
start to follow three four and five year
olds around for the day what are the
best experiences I a member and a little
four-year-old boy asked me on a date to
play Legos at it out that’s the closest
I come dating in the past eight years
almost took it up on it and I followed
them and every time they laughed I made
a note of it and I noted what they were
doing at the time and then i
extrapolated because i am a dirty girl
to the number of hours their parents
said that they were usually up and it
came out than 150 to 200 times a day is
approximately right and this is not for
every three four and five year old but
most three four five year old or
laughing a lot and what do you think
they were laughing what were they doing
when they were laughing they were
playing they were not telling jokes we
have this belief in our mind that
laughter comes from something is funny
do you know that only thirty percent of
the reasons we laugh have to do with
anything being perceived as funny by our
brains and so we can tap into that other
seventy percent which comes from play
and social body which also happens when
we’re playing with other people so they
were playing 150 to 200 last day what do
you think it is for grown-ups it is 15
the constellations is that high as I
bring your average up
and that is a lot of weight to carry on
my shoulders on days when maybe I fall
behind a little bit people actually did
this study they follow the sales of
american adults around i’m glad that i
followed the children it was probably a
lot less boring and they follow them
around for a week and they calculated
how often people laugh and there were
forty percent of the people in this
study lab zero to three times a day and
it was the people the ten percent of the
people like me last 90 times a day or
more who skewed the meat and so when I
ask you that question you think well
it’s too or it’s fine for its twenty
that’s probably the situation that
you’re in and you’ll probably mitigate
that level of laughter and one of the
easiest ways to move us in the direction
of getting more laps is to move us in
the direction of being more playful as
well so where are my parents raise your
hand if you’re a parent okay excellent
grandparents okay so you all understand
the value of claim for children right we
have it it’s it’s in what we are is
parental units I am a canine parental
unit unit in person but I also
understand that I in place that too so
play for small children helps with
mental development it helps with
physical development it helps with
social bonding building friendship
networks and creating boundaries it does
all of those things for grownups too it
also when your adult helps you build
flexibility and resilience and
creativity
thinking outside of your usual comfort
zone and it does so many amazing things
and one of them is it increases your
willingness to take risk and when we’re
not willing to take risk our lives are
so very limited to the little runt we
have drawn for ourselves on the ground
our entire lives and we really the step
out of that and do something crazy like
I dressed myself this morning can you
tell me looks like a five and a half
year old did that so we need to aspire
to do that the crazy thing is that every
study done so far has found that there
is no species that does not have a left
replacements and if you have dogs if you
have cats if you had bird I have koi
fish I know with my oh my gosh a
plateful my of one watch it jumps up out
of the water enjoy where this river eyes
we have a last play response because
laughter plague has a biological
function and that is so kind and if
we’re not playing enough we’re not
laughing enough and if we’re not
laughing and if we’re not venting our
stressful energy let’s go bad we can let
them go more quickly if we can find the
playful side of that so we need to be
doing that more so let me tell you what
I think play is because many of you may
think you’re playing and I may disagree
off maybe you may play words with
friends or tennis or candy crush or a
bridge for example that would not follow
my
definition of place so I have to come up
with a 4-letter acronym for play and it
spells out the P stands for physical and
my definition of physical means you must
use your body in a way that you are
unaccustomed to using that brings you
joy so that means play tennis even
though it’s physical you’re a custom you
know the moves you practice the moves
that doesn’t fit as play there’s an old
Calvin and Hobbes cartoon and I will
summarize it and Calvin comes up to his
daddy says dad why don’t grown-ups play
and dances well we do we just call it
working out and we have to keep notes on
how well we’re doing towards achieving
our goals and counted so you just take
place take all the fun out of it and
basically that’s where to me the
difference is between play and work and
think about how many things in your life
with the word work on people always tell
me where your workshop is I going to
know my place shoppings because I don’t
want to do any more work i’m going to do
some play and we want to be physical in
a way the challenges our bodies so I
teach improv class and it implies one
minute you could be an octopus learning
a superhero name kitten woman loses
superpowers are shredding the Drake
reason going that is the kind of play
that we’re talking about we want to get
physical do you know that one of the
best ways to get more muscle memory to
remember what it was like to be a
fighter no business that’s all it took
you’re down at the eye level of five
year where do you get when you breathe a
small child or a dog and in what
attitude are you when you greet a small
child or don’t so go to the point
imagine going into a retailer gonna
change everything so physical we want to
be physical in a way that is
uncomfortable now when I say physical I
mean from head to toe your eyebrows are
part of your face how many how often
have you done something like this like
right we don’t do that because it’s
stupid we don’t do that because it’s
silly we don’t do that because our ego
says don’t do that people know they do
an oddball you know what you’re on balls
we’re all on bones we should celebrate
that instead of hiding that so remember
it had children knees and toes knees
into the back of body the whole thing L
stands for laughter in reducing I’ve
been here the whole day I can tell which
if you know
laughs not all of you do because does
not count it will get you any of the
benefits that you need to get from
laughter and playing either will well
there was a music major Oh which stands
for lying because you know what I know
it studies have shown that when you’re
typing LOL you are not laughing out loud
and for God’s sakes you are not rolling
on the floor so stop typing in Tokyo
have bruises on your hips you are not
rolling on the floor so when I see
mopping out well I mean where’s my
microphone you see how much that hurts
me one minute belly laughing is
equivalent in terms of abdominal toning
firstly I think reality to Van Slyke a
washboard mf’s like a dashboard now a
little built-in air bag there’s already
two things I don’t bruises easily sit
we’re good so you need to work on the
laughter so play laughter adventurous
you need to be uncomfortable we have so
much of a fear of getting outside of our
comfort zone and outside your comfort
zone ADIZ where joy lies outside of your
comfort zone is were creativity lines
and it’s definitely one plane light um
two years ago my friend Jennifer of the
hula hooping person Jennifer invited me
to do a naked photo shoot with 50 other
women outside I don’t gotta shower they
get Michael well I need to live up to my
expectations if there’s something so I
said yes so what a giant warehouse the
photograph is amazing and it’s a
feminist photo and it’s worth taking
women taking power back from politics
and and the medical community of
journalists and we’re chasing these
people down but we are naked we are
outside then we across bertelsen and 11
part besides the whole because Jennifer
brother who loop so we knew we had
strange women getting mud on our body
standing in a kiddie pool it was amazing
and also amazing i’m standing there
naked like they got a contact with a
woman she and I could tell she knows who
I am and I have no idea and she comes up
to me she says Professor Joshua I took
your grammar class I’m thinking and now
adventurous and the last one is youthful
you must wanna play not feeding your age
and in fact if you’ve done a good job
for two or three hours you must not
figure eight later with a hot pack in
the hub I feel your age but we want to
be as useful as possible and get to that
to me the idea of flow flow simply has
to do with being useful because you’ve
they’re not aware of the passage of time
youth are not aware of the burden of
responsibility that we grown up humans
carry around all the time so physical
laughter reducing adventurism youthful
so I want to give you just a couple of
quick tips easiest one you see what I’m
wearing these are span these are fan
decks right fresh to play when you are
wearing uncomfortable clothing you are
not in a playful mood I once did a
presentation for a group of upper level
financial officers for the state of
Oregon and they all came in in their
suits and ties and there were 100
of them they sat down and I said to them
would you take off your shoes and the
women just went crazy oh but take these
shoes so you know how much is it burning
my feet Oh like why do we do things like
that spandex I mean not spandex I mean
spanks one of the least playful body
garments ever invented if I have never
worked Warren space over a cheap British
knockoff version occasionally called a
slight tap of the Baltimore the way to
them don’t wear them they’re not playful
because you can’t be playful if you if
you have an opportunity to play frisbee
in the parking lot yet you’re wearing
high heels and spanks at a time which
would be kind of an interesting day and
you’re not going to do make playful
friends people who not only encourage
you to play and don’t become one of
those voices in your head to get up
given balancing me we all have those
people i’m not saying don’t those people
consider telling those people but
definitely make more friends who
encouraged you to play my friend Donna
LeBlanc her husband developed late-stage
Alzheimer’s after several years of
having Alzheimer’s and had to go to live
in an Alzheimer’s care facility and he
no longer remembered her and he no
longer remembered their 50-year marriage
and for six months she spiraled into
depression and Donna it’s one of the
most joyful playful people I’ve ever met
and she called me after six months and
said I am so tired of feeling this way
I’ve decided to become happy again and I
know that the only person who could do
that
be in sochi what she decided to do since
her husband didn’t recognize her he
decided every time she went to see if
she’d be somebody else this sure she’s
in a ready she’s wearing a platinum
blonde regalos she start high heels this
he stashed shaded the that’s my ID
obsession apparently association to the
nursing hope that made their day you’ve
ever been into dementia care center you
know that’s a very difficult place to be
and her husband spotted her from across
the way that he recognized Marilyn do
you know any better she said they dated
in high school which made him very happy
that you made her very happy and unless
that I want to give you as hiding here
behind someone let me know if you need
to challenge your ego on a regular basis
if you allow your ego to run your life
you will never play you’ll never get out
of your comfort zone and you won’t
really experience the level of joy that
I believe human beings are meant to
experience and i will show you about
easy it is to know you’re meant to
experience that joy how many of you want
this weight might give it to you
somebody’s going to get it to a child or
a dog or a cat because we don’t have
played somebody says yes I’m kind of
place your order to you so challenging
ego can be difficult especially if
you’ve never done it before a lot edit
you know if you fly a lot you’re always
try to catch your connecting flight
resist always at the other end of the
airport and so you need people to get
hot women naked I’ll free after six CD
jury he’ll go oh no way I don’t ever do
that even among strangers do you think I
might have a better experience in the
airport that most people do because I
really good play I always recommend that
everybody keeping their glove box a
cannibal snout so the next time you’re
stuck in traffic you strapped on to
smell here till change your entire how
could it not change your perspective I
got a presentation for educators in
Salem and a woman emailed me the next
day and said she’d gone out of lunch i
bought a pig snout and the guy should
order to follow her pull into 7-eleven
parking lot she rolled her window down
just a little bit and the man that I
really not dangerous what’s where the
pics now she was quick on her feet and
said I can marry the 27 years mr. way we
keep the spark and everything going hope
that you are inspired to it subway
whether it’s to go to the local school
yard is get on the swings by the way if
you get on the monkey bars remember that
if you hang by your knees from the
monkey barred in order to get out of
that position you have to rotate through
your shoulders don’t ask me how I know
this I had a seven-year a boy tried to
explain to me how to get off the monkey
bars yelled a good Irish stuck to my
show
rotate the way that they used to so
stick to the swings of the slide
enrollment improv class make friends
with five year olds and eight-year-olds
because a lot more people in their
eighties play than people in their 40s
and 50s and 60s I want to end with two
quotes that I find really inspiring the
first is by one of my favorite authors
and artists Brian Andreas and it’s a
reminder from children in and it goes
like this I wouldn’t mind being a grown
up she said if I didn’t have to get up
every morning and be grumpy right away
very sad but when i was at wayne county
head start and asking kids with their
parents did some fun three of them said
sleep and my last quote is by tom
robbins who changed my life in so many
ways and it is it’s never too late to
have a happy childhood so I wish that for you as well
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