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. . . THE PLAY SPIRIT . . .
Imaginative • Heart-Healthy • Creative • Playfully Artistic
Cooperative Green Games & Play Sets
"There wasn't a minute when the play spirit even took a rest. It romped in at the Thursday night session when President Frederick Greely, of the playground of Chicago, introduced 'our playmates,' Miss Jane Addams, Joseph Lee, and Dr. Luther H. Gulick. And it romped boisterously out late on Saturday afternoon when a whole field of 5,000 delegates, spectators, and festival participants played tag with a thunderstorm . . . The play spirit captivated everyone." -Graham Romeyn Taylor
“How They Played at Chicago.” Proceedings of the First Annual Playground and Play Congress Yearbook. New York: Playground Association of America, 1907.
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Whether you’re creating poems from Prairie Prose, gathering foodstuffs from Harvest Dreams, finding flora fashions in Prairie Fairies, dramatically sharing Quills! passages from Shakespeare’s plays, or discovering insights into Jane Austen’s heroines–the game play in this unique collection of games is story-driven and cooperative, which means great fun can be had by everyone.
The spirit of the game play is more all for all than 'all for one'. We live on this earth together and are all part of the human family. Cooperation and friendly competition are part of the socially dynamic Rules of Play, which strive to create wholeness out of duality as an emerging paradigm shift in our collective consciousness towards becoming an evolving, enlightened society.
Unique leadership skills can grow out of a cooperative setting, where each individual’s creative talents can playfully shine in a harmonious way.
Perfect for game nights with friends and family, playdates–and special fan club events too.
When playing with 2-6 players, the cooperative nature of the gameplay in both game collections encourages aspects of roleplaying in dramatically reading passages/poetry aloud together; and also a playful mood of cosplay, with the unique materials in which the games are made that can be used as theatrical props.
School Editions of selected games from both Quills! and the Prairie Prose series can also be used in the classroom/homeschool to promote camaraderie around personal expression while exploring literature, drama and poetry. Designed to encourage and inspire a love of reading, interest in history, and appreciation of nature through the arts.
We will create a healthy society when we learn to equally share power with each other. How well we play together is a spiritual activity–that enables us to co-create the world in which we all live. Through our play together, we can bring more healing soul light into the world–uplifting all of our humanity and our Mother Earth.
These core values and beliefs are foundational to the mission of Marigold Games and are integral to the research and design of every unique game experience. They are heart-healthy games, made with love. –JF
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Scenes from my early adventures in ad hoc play testing my first cooperative game experience – Fashionistas – which evolved into the Prairie Fairies - Cooperative Game Set.
“Winning at someone else’s expense is an old paradigm and an increasingly obsolete model of success. Separation leads to disintegration, and joining leads to miracles.”
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“We are not able to, and will never, find win-win solutions with a win-lose mind.”
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“Be careful about making yourself more important than anyone else. Can you give up your territory? In this state of attention that we call truth and love—the heart of the matter—there is no territory. There are no boundaries. You do not have any territory to defend. You are everything, and nobody can take anything away from you.”
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“When we are no longer engaged in the duality of win/lose, we must instead invent creative solutions. When whole populations are no longer oppressed, then their creativity can be unleashed. The song that is waiting to arise is a harmonic, multisymphonic masterpiece of creation singing the morning song that signals the dawn of a new era.”