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a friend’s post jogged a memory…
in elementary school, my first year in the “american” system, the upper grades made a musical instrument out of the multi-story playground complex. we spent weeks designing it and a month converting the slides and staircases and bridges. i wish i could remember what we named it. the structure was the size of a small apartment and ran on buckets and buckets of water. drops echoed on metal, spinning wheels rang half-full jars, plastic bottoms boomed under a torrent. it was a constant… musical waterfall… which is what we called it!
the saddest day was to take it down. the second saddest was the day i realized such a game would not be repeated every year in america.