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Created: April 15, 2003
Latest Update: April 15, 2003
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Arnold's Rock Climbing. Comments by Sabrina Johnson

Site Copyright: Jeanne Curran and Susan R. Takata and Individual Authors, April 2003.
"Fair use" encouraged.

On Tuesday, April 15, 2003, Sabrina Johnson wrote:

By looking at the photos, I can see that Arnold loves life in every aspect. Not only does he love cats, but he also loves creation. I especially love photo 5, photo 7, and photo 8. God is so awesome in his creation. The way the mountains are shaped looks like God took his time in creating and sculpting each andevery part of the mountain.

Discussion Question

I think that play is very important in an adult relationship. We spend so much time dealing with serious issues or have so little time for one another, that play time is a very refreshing part to the relationship. Play time between adults is very important because it gives them time to relax and enjoy each other. Play time is also used as a way to communicate the fun things in life. I love the photos, keep making each other happy.

Sabrina Johnson
Reality

On Tuesday, April 15, 2003, jeanne responded:

Sabrina, good submission. I like the way you separated out the shots of scenery and essentially wrote them into a photo story of your own. This is what we mean in postmodernism when we speak of the disappearing author. Once the pictures are made and given to the viewer, the viewer becomes and interdependent part of the meaning. To me, Photo 7 meant Don't Go Near the Edge, because I know how Arnold reacts to great heights. He came down an Angkor Wat tower in Cambodia, tush first because he couldn't look down. You saw the panorma; I saw the dangerous edge for which a railing had been added. These are the tiny differences in perspective we need to be aware of as we build relationships with the Other.

Photo 7.

Your comments on play could be strengthened by referring to George Herbert Mead and the importance of play. No, you couldn't have easily found that reference on your own. That's why a dialog between us works so well.

As we wind up our course on the sociology of reality, you might also add play to one of the tools of illocutionary discourse, like art, music, panoramas of beauty, love.

love and peace, jeanne

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