Wednesday, October 23, 2002
The Picnic Initiative
I've been thinking about "intergenerational games" - I guess because I had an inquiry from a publisher about said same. And because son-in-law-Tom is so involved in the aforementioned. And maybe even because it's something I had thought about before, years ago, when I came up with what I called "The Picnic Initiative."
I was trying to find a family-based equivalent for the New Games Tournament. A smaller, more intimate scale event that was in its way a kind of intergenerational celebration in which fun was actually supposed to happen. Which turns out to be the traditional family picnic. You know, the eat-togethers we have usually in summer, sometimes in a park, sometimes on a beach. Private affairs, for the whole extended family and friends, usually in public places.
The more I read what I had written (which, I admit, is both cute, a little strange and a bit sketchy), the more I started liking the idea, thinking maybe it was inspired or something. Something that shouldn't be forgotten or overlooked or unlinked to. An easy, approachable, important thing for us to do together in family as extended as we are.
I was trying to find a family-based equivalent for the New Games Tournament. A smaller, more intimate scale event that was in its way a kind of intergenerational celebration in which fun was actually supposed to happen. Which turns out to be the traditional family picnic. You know, the eat-togethers we have usually in summer, sometimes in a park, sometimes on a beach. Private affairs, for the whole extended family and friends, usually in public places.
The more I read what I had written (which, I admit, is both cute, a little strange and a bit sketchy), the more I started liking the idea, thinking maybe it was inspired or something. Something that shouldn't be forgotten or overlooked or unlinked to. An easy, approachable, important thing for us to do together in family as extended as we are.
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