Pat spoke passionately about the crisis in the workplace. Work isn’t making us
happy. It is making us unhealthy. He asked, ‘Why believe in work if it doesn’t
believe in you?’ He argued further that, ‘play is much more than you think it
is’. He claimed that, ‘to be literate in play, its forms and traditions is to widen
our frameworks of perception’. My experience affirms Pat’s contention that
‘play is a way of framing what is true’. Important for this chapter is Pat’s question:
‘Why must we, at a certain point, put childish things behind us?’