The Pulitzer Prize
nominated book, Playing By Heart: The Vision and Practice of
Belonging, written by O. Fred Donaldson, Ph.D., is available by
contacting Fred Donaldson at 203-452-5320 or Daniel Caron at
740-686-2550.
Playing
By Heart is an invitation to come out and play with our wonderful
world, to see beyond our lists and definitions and join the mystery
ourselves. To receive this invitation requires a child-like
participation of our senses and a way of knowing that is more holistic
than analytic, more heartfelt than discriminating. "Come out and
play" is more than an iconoclastic technique, more than a
recapitulation of childish frivolity, more than comic relief from
stress or recreational diversion. It involves a genuine transcendence
that is grounded in and nourished by life…
Playing By Heart is
not a book about a predetermined line of research or a survey into the
nature of children's play. I am not examining moral, social and
cognitive development through play. I am not collecting data. This
book is a pirate ship sent to kidnap you, as I have been kidnapped by
the children, perhaps a kind of ark, which will transport you so that
you might come out and play with the world.
