My Connections To Play
" Play is the only way the highest intelligence of humankind can unfold.” -Joseph Chilton Pearce “We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.” -George Bernard Shaw “It is a happy talent to know how to play.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson As a child, I played my little booty off! I did not have all the latest toys but, I had a huge imagination. I had imaginary friends as walls, I put on my mother's nylon as long hair (my mother used to give me a boy haircut), I made my own dolls and Barbie outfits from my grandmother scraps as she sews our clothing. But, most of my play was supported by all my cousins. We are a bunch of girl cousins from my mother side. We were basically raised together as we spent every single weekend together up until the age of 13,(I thought I was too grown to play). I am the oldest female cousin so they all looked up to me. We all bought our own uniqueness to our play, we traveled th...