I told you ’bout the Fool on the hill, I tell you man he’s living there still,
Well, here’s another place you can be, Listen to me,
Fixing a hole in the ocean,
Trying to make a dovetail joint,
Looking through the glass onion.
– beatles

Here’s one of those strange and yet weirdly meditative kayak play moves.. this is an open lotus.. to make it more challenging bring your feet in further underneath your body then bring your arms inward, turn your hands up and rest them on the paddle just above your knees. Of course do that funky thumb & forefinger thing as well… Let me know if you become one with the universe!

Yesterday I went on a short rant about the concept of “fun”. The main point of the story of course is that fun is not a commodity, but an organic result of an experience.  Some people struggle with the concept of fun and yet know it to be important, so they say the word repeatedly in hopes of conjuring it into existence. I think this has consequences as well when we start mainstreaming “experiential learning” & learning through play” under the recently hip label of “Discovery Learning”.   Experiential learning and learning through play are actually fairly slippery concepts and doomed to become failures and distractions if we don’t “feel” what we’re doing out there.  We again can’t simply say we’re all about “Discovery”. Continue reading →