It's a snowy old day here in St. John's, and as I watch the snow blow in diagonals from the warm side of the windows in the quiet ICH office (Dale is being an Intangible Cultural Heritage rock star in ASIA, and I'm sure he'll tell you all about it when he gets home), I am thinking about how much I used to love weather like this. You remember: back when the snow meant sliding and snowmen and forts and snowball fights, instead of shoveling the driveway 3 times in a 24-hour period and falling down twice (TWICE!) on your way in to work.
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| The view from ICH today. Good luck out there, City of St. John's truck. |
But then I got excited, because I realized that the good old days I was just thinking of are some of the same days that we get to talk about in the
Hoist your Sails and Run project, and that project is just ramping up!
I've been doing some interviews with the folks who have already filled out our survey about play and games (you can too! Click
here), and I haven't had one yet where we didn't talk about sliding. Everyone seems to remember sliding on the perfect hill, whether they were on a wood slide borrowed from their father, or a discarded plastic bag, or a pilfered pizza pan.
We're going to be meeting on Tuesday mornings in February at
MacMorran Community Centre, and talking about sliding and any number of other ways we used to play!
If you're interested in becoming a part of this project, please
email me or be in touch by phone at 709-739-1892 ext 3, and tell me your sliding memories!
