"My inner playground was getting pretty interesting when I realized that gravity, scale, color and sound -- and whatever else -- could be controlled by me in an instant"

1. In the Dentist Office - wherein I discover the Inner Playground: (mp3)
2. The Inner Playground - defined
3. My Inner Inner City
4. My Own Private Hollywood
5. Part Two: Games for the Inner Player
6. Freeze Tag
7. Mother May I
8. Simon Says
9. Part Three: Building an Inner Playground
10. The Inner Seesaw
11. My Inner Swingset
12. Part Four: Introducing Serious and Silly
13. Serious and Silly (mp3)
14. Kick the Can

Well I'm sorry to be so tardy. I went on a little vacation to western Pennsylvania to see Fallingwater (Frank Lloyd Wright's masterwork) which I haven't seen since 1980. He was almost 70 years old when he designed it -- still playing.

At any rate your inner playground was/is a great idea. After having spent time in nursing homes (just a visitor) I have been fascinated at how to live a quality life as our world shrinks around us. The inner playground has lots of adaptations. I used it when I was in a boring meeting.

Now about playing in the playground -- I am less of a "games" guy as you know and more of a "free play" guy. My inner playground was getting pretty interesting when I realized that gravity, scale, color and sound -- and whatever else -- could be controlled by me in an instant. I could play hide and seek with my tiny two selves on my shirt as I sat in the dentists chair (I hid in a crease and almost slipped off but was able to grab onto a button). Also, the walls and ceiling could be manipulated (I squeezed the hygenist into a corner -- the naughty Bob). Then I escaped out the window and enlarged myself -- with each foot placed on the top of a trailer truck going down the highway. Thank goodness they were going about the same speed! I also found myself in some silly spaces of my own invention -- or twirling mirrors to see who would be reflected when they stopped -- whoever might pop into my head (Ed Sullivan? Grandma Moses? Captain Crunch?...and why them?!).

Your CD freed me to play even more than I usually do within. As an "arts" guy I am always imaginging art that I may make -- but your inner playground is pure play for its own sake -- which just opens up all sorts of stuff. Also I love the secret subversion of it! So keep going your are brilliant, serious, and silly. Sanity or sanitation for the mind! Thank you.

Bob Gregson, artist