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What was your favorite playground activity?
Posted on Sep 8th, 2007
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Tatiana
Tatiana
This is in Response to the Questions and Reflections for September 08, 2007:
Good one.
My favourite playtime activity remains to this day ,swinging. We had a swing-set in my backyard when I was a child. I would swing and swing for hours, singing, feeling my heart beat increase as I went higher and higher "trying" to do a 360 - or at least see IF it was possible. I would sing and swing eyes closed day dreaming.
Thinking about it now I can feel the motion, the air brushing past me, my hair moving back as I swung forward and forward as I swung back, legs swinging up and then back, the tilt as I lay back to gain momentum, my hands on the thin link chain which sometimes pinched my junior flesh.
It was meditative. Yes, I just saw that swinging for me is a soothing, calming meditative and often times solitary thing.
To this day if I need some time for me swinging is one of the things which I so totally enjoy and brings me joy. I pass many parks with swings on a daily basis but I stop to swing once or twice yearly.
Just this week we were looking at properties and I said aloud that I would like a swing-set in our yard. Yes I would. And so it shall be.
I did a performance on a swing-set in art school, documenting the swings with a plastic Russian camera call a Holga. One of the series hangs in my entrance. Perhaps I'll scan it and post it here sometime.
In any case, thanks for this question - oday I am going to swing.
Tatiana Ishwari
My favourite playtime activity remains to this day ,swinging. We had a swing-set in my backyard when I was a child. I would swing and swing for hours, singing, feeling my heart beat increase as I went higher and higher "trying" to do a 360 - or at least see IF it was possible. I would sing and swing eyes closed day dreaming.
Thinking about it now I can feel the motion, the air brushing past me, my hair moving back as I swung forward and forward as I swung back, legs swinging up and then back, the tilt as I lay back to gain momentum, my hands on the thin link chain which sometimes pinched my junior flesh.
It was meditative. Yes, I just saw that swinging for me is a soothing, calming meditative and often times solitary thing.
To this day if I need some time for me swinging is one of the things which I so totally enjoy and brings me joy. I pass many parks with swings on a daily basis but I stop to swing once or twice yearly.
Just this week we were looking at properties and I said aloud that I would like a swing-set in our yard. Yes I would. And so it shall be.
I did a performance on a swing-set in art school, documenting the swings with a plastic Russian camera call a Holga. One of the series hangs in my entrance. Perhaps I'll scan it and post it here sometime.
In any case, thanks for this question - oday I am going to swing.
Tatiana Ishwari
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