Lines on the Page

LINES ON THE PAGE

Creative play?

How is that creative? How is that productive? Don’t we have books to write, art to produce, ideas to bring into the world? A livelihood to work at?

We were all kids, were we not? I used to sit for hours outside in a sandpile— building roads, driving pretend or real toy cars, planting trees, creating buildings and houses.

Or stack wooden blocks into a bridge for our pre…