I am going to make a conscious effort to rediscover playful, childlike me. I don’t want her to have to beg me to join in. "I don’t want to just watch Madeleine play. "When did I stop rolling down hills? When do adults stop playing in general? And why do we choose to stop doing something that is so harmless and so much fun? Then you brush the grass and twigs off your clothes, and run to the top of the hill to try again. "There’s a wonderful sense of abandon to a good hill-roll, completely surrendering yourself to the forces of gravity while tumbling in a disorienting swirl of sky and grass and sky and grass until you land at the bottom, puffed and dizzy and proud. "Do you remember taking roly poly tumbles down hills? Topography in my childhood was constantly assessed on the basis of its suitability for climbing to the top and rolling back down. In her lovely post, Time to Take a Tumble, by Naomi, she reminds us:
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