Cosmic Play

Meanwhile, the wind has picked up and the Nannies begin to blow away down the street, toward the park entrance.

Both George Banks and Winifred Banks enter their homes singing about their self-involved lives.

George Banks comes in the door singing about his wonderful, consistent, "oh so orderly" life,

Winifred Banks is a modern woman, a suffragette and rebel, she has just been at a rally and begins to tell the household staff about it.

Following Bert for a short way, we come upon Cherry Tree Lane, and meet the eccentric Admiral Boom, who is famous for punctuality.

Before the first words of the movie Mary Poppins are uttered, we already know a lot about what is happening.

The structure of humor “inherently provides the constant possibility of a new unexpected beginning.”

Mindess (1971) discusses the liberatory nature of laughter.

The laughter of George, Uncle Albert, and the Elder Mr. Dawes is what Davis (2000)

Many great minds have looked at laughter, from Plato and Aristotle to Descartes