The Actual Phase Two
Even though we said that the installation of
the Deep Fun All-Weather Inner Playground Sandbox was the second
phase of the full installation,
the actual second phase
doesn’t come until now, when we, breaking all implied Inner Playground
Sandbox guarantees, decide to imagine that Silly and Serious at play, together,
in our Inner Sandbox, and let them run around as they so often do.
Preparation
In preparation for the arrival of both Silly and Serious,
some of us might want to be sitting, alone, in a very quiet place,
with a mirror. Others might
just
want to pretend that they are doing that.
Let the Preparation for the Return of Serious and Silly to our Newly Expanded
Inner Playground begin
Take out your two-sided mirror (not included). If you
can’t find a two-sided
mirror, you can use a one-sided mirror (also not included) and a double-flip
(see following). If you can’t find a mirror or anything at all anywhere
around that you can see yourself in, try using your Deep Fun Imaginary Mirror
(included).
Look into your mirror and make a face that is definitely Serious.
Take your time. And give it time. Until the face you see is inarguably,
indubitably, and in deed,
the face of you, being Serious.
Now flip your mirror over, and do the same thing until the face you see
there is, most typically and unmistakably you, being Silly.
(Here’s
where you, if you have a one-sided mirror, must use the aforementioned
double-flip.)
Now flip the mirror over and see if your Serious face is still as unmistakably
Serious as it was when you last saw it.
And flip the mirror over again,
and check out your Silly self. Check out your silly self!
And again
flip and again flip, randomly, seeing you can catch one of them
off-guard.
OK. So that’ll be the way Silly looks. And that,
Serious.
Go it? Silly? Serious? Silly? Serious? Serious again? Silly?
And again Silly?
You are now ready for Silly and Serious to play,
together. With each other. In your own, personal, Deep Fun All-Weather
Inner Sandbox.
OK. At last, Silly and Serious are ready play. At least at last
you know what they look like. Now imagine them at play in your
Inner Playground.
Both of
them, in your new Deep Fun All-Weather Inner Sandbox, at the same time.
Imagine Silly and Serious are playing in a Deep Fun All-Weather
Inner Sandbox. Let them start off, as they always do, playing as
far apart
from each other
as possible. Well, they could possibly be further apart, but “possible” here
means without being so far apart that they can’t see or hear
or feel each other.
They really seem to need their own space, to be
in their own place, where the sand is clearly theirs, and they can
exercise total control.
Without
conversation.
Or eye contact, even.
And at the same time need to be just close enough
so they can catch a glimpse of what the other is making. And,
if they so desire, they
can
be completely
free to make their own sand do something that looks and functions
and smells in a
remarkably similar manner, yet is clearly an improvement. Or not.
After
a while, imagine Silly and Serious inexorably having to draw closer,
to find out what kinds of roads and bridges and canals and
borders they
can draw
together, between their creations. Imagine them drawing together.
Imagine
how, given long enough, their bridges become the foundation for
something surprising. Surprising to Silly. Surprising to Serious.
Surprising
in a remarkably
surprising way. More surprising than either of you had even dreamed
possible.
So surprising, that even the Deep Fun All-Weather Inner
Sandbox doesn’t
have enough sand, isn’t big enough.
Imagine Silly’s
expression when that surprising thing gets born into the world.
Imagine Serious’s face when it gets made for real.
Now look
in the mirror.
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