Recreation

I am a pretty curious person and asked a lot of "why" questions when I was young.  So over the last week as I sat down to plan summer for the youth of Astoria and I thought a lot about the word recreation.  What does that mean?  Immediately I think of sunny skies, playing frisbee, pic-nics at the beach, etc.  Then of course I glanced out the window in my office and saw rain, not just sprinkles, full on downpour.  So that means then that recreation takes place without sunny skies!  Makes good sense since we live in Astoria and we get a lot of rain but still can recreate.

I turned to the good old dictionary to look for some answers.  Recreation, according to Merriam Webster (the know it all with vocabulary), is to do an activity for enjoyment when one is not working.  Ok so that sounds neat doesn't it?  It's not work but it's enjoyment.  Next stop was the thesaurus to find other words that are like recreation.  Here are some examples:  pleasure, leisure, relaxation, amusement, play, and sport.  Things are sounding pretty good to me with these words and dictionary.

Sounds like people can recreate in many different forms and places.  Now that I have a clearer picture it is easy for me to explore ways to recreate.  In the next few weeks I will look into ways to accomplishing activities for enjoyment when one is not working.  I hope you will join me on this adventure and we can figure out some really cool things to do here in Astoria.