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Atlantis mindmapping

I will start mindmapping Atlantis tomorrow. That will be my first thing. Today we are going to be working on the Halloween event. Man I am very tired.  I think i'll be fine in a bit.  I am trying to build up an aethetic for Atlantis and I don't want it to be corny. Who are the Atlanteans? Why race are they? This seems weird but they can be any race as far as i'm concerned. I do not see them as any race. I am inspired by indoensia where it does not matter how dark or light you are in terms of your ethnicity - you are Indonesians, much more so than Singaporeans who decided to institute that stupid four races policy. In Indonesia everyone speaks Bahasa and they don't have a bumi policy either. So language, the way I understood it was non-political. This is what we speak if we are Indonesians. That is my template for Atlantis. In indonesia you had people who were fair or dark, Melansian, or Indian, Chinese, whatever - and you were Indonesian. That is my template for Atlanti...

Hectic doesnt begin to describe it

There are many things that when I look back on my life and feel really proud about. Yesterday will be one of them. Here, one yearish on, we had the deepest most blissful play going on in Forest School. Children with fire skills, knife skills, den building skills, children with rich self directed play being perfectly happy at being outdoors. And the weather held for us as well. We were so so lucky. It is kind of a little piece of heaven as we just have the best time ever - me helping the children and... you know what, it is good. It feels good. The best thing is when play evolves and flows. There are things to be done and we just do them. Play is allowed to happen. It is something good. Right. I don't know what is wrong with me but the words are just not there right now. It is an odd feeling I have never not had the words. Justin is here and I was listening to this story. It is incredible that you never know how amazing people are - how we are all here by accident of birth. How we a...