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Parabola's Winter 1996 issue: Play and Work All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, the old saw goes. But who knows where one ends and the other begins, much less perceives the balance? --from the editorial Focus Cover: Detail from "Children's Games" by Pieter Brueghel the Elder, 1560. Oil on oakwood. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria. Photo: Erich Lessing/Art Resource, NY In this issue:

"Spontaneous Effort" by David Rothenberg - When the moment strikes
"No Shadow Draws the Water" by Robert Aitken - Imaginative interaction as play
"A Natural Harmony" by David Fideler - Cosmological forces at work
"First Things" by Eric Gill - Reflections on the nature of vocation
"A Child's Ground of Discovery: An Interview with Margaret Flinsch" - Primordial play and eternal work
"Sunwise Blessing" by Mara Freeman - Celtic prayers to work by
"The Rung of Service" by Martin Buber - The struggle of availability
"Wielding the Force of Presence: A Picture Essay" - Pictures by Linda Butler, text by Ananda K. Coomaraswamy
"Working for a Living" by Jean Kinkead Martine - Awakening to the call of the office
"Exercising Oneself" by Meister Eckhart - The impartiality of duty
"Time Is a Child Playing" by Richard Lewis - How we find out about the world
"What 'Play' Is" by Johan Huizinga - Engagement and absorption
"Why Life is Hard" by Hesiod - A mythic origin of labor
"Holy Work and Pious Play" by William A. McIntosh - Campin's Joseph in his workshop
"Magical Wars and Spirited Debates" by Stuart Smithers - The Vedas' and Upanishads' view of play
"The Creator's Game" by Joseph Bruchac - Lacrosse, cosmic celebration
"Life as Gymnastics" by A. R. Orage - Growth by inner exertion

Epicycles - Traditional stories from around the world

"Cloth, Clay, Wood, Reed" / Liberian - retold by Esther Warner Dendel
"The Reef Came to Be in Sorrow" / Marshall Islands - retold by Daniel Kelin
"Forbidden Door" / Moroccan - retold by Laura Simms
"Joe Magarac" / North American - retold by Robert Parillo

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