At Wild Play Woods we get our best materials from things that would otherwise be "trash", and we appreciate help from the community stocking our adventure materials. 🏠 Cleaning out your garage? We'd love to put some of your discarded stuff to good use! 🛞 Love to go thrifting? You can help us out by keeping an eye out for cool stuff!…
We call Wild Play Woods an "adventure playground" because that sounds nicer to grownups. But the original term for this concept was "junk playground", an idea first promoted in the 1930s by Carl Theodor Sørensen, a Danish landscape architect. You know that parental lament about giving your child a fancy gift and they play with the box instead? Sørensen noticed that kids…
Joshua got a great photo of me. This is my little corner of our living room with all my clutter and all my creativity. This is SO me.
Video Chat 2/1/2024Present: Issa, Sara, Candice, Hairball, Joshua.Not present: Justin, kids Dylan and Quinn Camp name: Spoon Commune (taken from the “spoon theory” idea) Camp roles: TCO - Issa Waters - erosissa@gmail.com or reach me on FB messenger Infrastructure/power - Joshua Living room decor & signs - Sara Kitchen Bitch/Chow Cow/Snack Slut - Candice (name pending lol) Moop Troop - Dylan Camp…
Doesn't everyone deserve love? To be loved? To be accepted? To be cared for? Over the last couple of years, I've watched friends go through devastating breakups, and I've noticed a recurring sentiment that I'd like to warn you about. I know many empathetic, big-hearted, patient people with lots of love to give. Some of them have been in relationships with terrible…
I was 22 years old as 1999 rounded into the year 2000. I had started my path to a career as a childcare professional, but I still had one year to go as a Blockbuster manager. All 3 of my roommates were Blockbuster employees, too, and we saw ALL the movies. I missed it in theaters, but in the spring of 2000,…
I came to update my long-neglected website and discovered that my last post was about heat deaths and 117 degree heat. Funny. Because it's falling below 0 in Knoxville tonight. I have the woodstove cranked, and I'm losing ground. Hopefully the power doesn't go out because my solar array isn't working due to the snow load. Wild times.
NPR said Phoenix may reach 117 degrees. The graph for heat deaths so far this year looks like the other temperature-related graphs. That uncomfortable rise and then that sudden spike that lets you know we're in big trouble. I feel good about East Tennessee as a place to be to watch the world end.
Or I try to anyway lol. Maybe I should say I design things. Then I put them on a website and enjoy the collection of things that I've made. And it would be super exciting if other people bought them, but marketing is a discipline that eludes me. If you want to look at the things I design, you can visit Idylissa.com…
