To Develop: Blog 365 Day 43 – Wonderful Playground Toys
By Jiddoe S'Phatt
Warmest greetings! My name is Jiddoe S’Phatt. Welcome to day
43 of “To Develop: Blog 365”.
Inspiration to write comes from a number of places. For this
blog I’ve been inspired by hip-hop artist Rick Chyme and producer
David K. Manley of Man@Work Productions. Through a collaborative project
titled #DailyPieces365
these two artists will release a new song every day for 365 consecutive days!
Their impressive dedication has motivated me to write a new blog every day of
2018.
A little piece of me goes into each entry I write. I hope
you enjoy this one!
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This past summer I drove past the school I attended during
kindergarten and 1st grade. I had the urge to just look at it for some
strange reason. It was a Lutheran private school with lots of wonderful playground
toys. I was curious to see if it was just as I remembered it.
It wasn’t.
The school was no longer operational. I have no idea how
long it had been closed. A few of the windows were boarded up, the front door
had a hole in it. The entire building was beaten down by the weather and time.
I felt bad seeing it that way.
All those wonderful playground toys appeared to have long
lost their wonder. Each piece had rusted quite a bit. Found in the heart of a
pretty decent neighborhood, it’s a shame these were in no condition for the
community to use them.
I used to play on the swings. Before I made a few friends I’d
swing alone. I would attempt to swing with other students, even my classmates.
When I’d walk over they’d get up and go play elsewhere.
So there I’d be in my sweater vest over a button up shirt
with jeans and loafers, swinging alone. All this came back to me during this random
visit to an abandoned, rundown school.
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