Play: It’s Not Just for Kids

Play: It’s Not Just for Kids
Recreation is “re-creation”; it takes us away from work and stress, mini-vacations that return us renewed in mind and spirit to the tasks at hand. Iva Rajović/Shutterstock
Jeff Minick
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My aged 60-something friend John knows how to play.

When he and my grandkids get together, they spend hours playing card games such as Spit, Hearts, and even Old Maid. The kids scream and laugh, but John is the loudest of them all. When he gets a good hand or wins a game, I can hear him from the next room chuckling like a pirate over a chest of gold doubloons.

Jeff Minick
Jeff Minick
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Jeff Minick has four children and a growing platoon of grandchildren. For 20 years, he taught history, literature, and Latin to seminars of homeschooling students in Asheville, N.C. He is the author of two novels, “Amanda Bell” and “Dust on Their Wings,” and two works of nonfiction, “Learning as I Go” and “Movies Make the Man.” Today, he lives and writes in Front Royal, Va.
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