Take your play by the hand and infuse it with your joy. Rest in the memory of it. Let its peace be your pillow, of dreams. £
Narrator: And so ends our little Play. Please make yours as big as your imagination can hold, never cast a cross eye upon it, for play wilts under criticism….
The brilliant and gentle spirit, Cornelia Hahn Oberlander, OC, LLD, FCSLA, BCSLA, FASLA, once said about designing for play, ‘All you need is a pile of sand, a pile of dirt and a pail.’ ‘The act of play must resonate from within. Play is a pure act of the imagination on the wild.’ Wilding she called it!
— from my conversations with Cornelia
AURORE MOURSUND MAREN studied English literature in Colorado and Oxford, landscape architecture at Cornell, and clinical social work at Columbia. From an island in the Salish Sea, she travels mostly by boat, does landscape projects, independent clinical social work and tends the inner and outer light of place in words, gardens, paintings and glassworks.
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