Rules: Each player gets twenty or thirty multicoloured sticks and tosses them on the ground and tries to pick up as many as possible, one at a time, without disturbing the rest. It just struck me the other day that I don't think we can play pick-up sticks with people. In relating to someone, you can't just choose the parts that you are comfortable with and avoid those that interwine and touch like spaghetti with the scarier parts, all in for fear of losing the game. By doing that, you are already out of the game, and you will only be dealing with the peripheral and superficial. What it really takes is great care, patience and perception to decide which stick to move first, the right order at the right time, gently, so that you don't scramble the delicate sticks or the person.
