‼️ my recreation textbook said prison abolition now!
[Image id: Figure from Power, Promise, Potential, and Possibilities of Parks, Recreation, and Leisure.
What Recreators Can Do
It costs approximately $30,000 to incarcerate a juvenile offender for one year. If that money were available to Parks and Recreation, we could do the following:
Take him swimming twice a week for 24 weeks,
And give him four tours of the zoo, plus lunch,
And enroll him in 50 community center programs,
And visit the nature center twice,
And let him play league softball for a season,
And tour the gardens at the park twice,
And give him two weeks of tennis lessons,
And enroll him in two weeks of day camp,
And let him play three rounds of golf,
And act in one play,
And participate in one fishing clinic,
And take a four-week pottery class,
And play basketball eight hours a weeks for 40 weeks,
After which we could return to you: $29,125 and one much happier kid.
Reprinted, by permission, from E. O’Sullivan, 1999, Setting a course for change (National Recreation and Park Association).
The science behind THC + alcohol as a combination is literally soo interesting because it basically causes the crimson red duckling in your body to confront the serpent in the bronze vessel of your heart. Basically you feel good because the duckling is able to eat the harmonious seeds stored within the vessel and transfer these positive energies into your body. You can have bad highs when this happens if the duckling awakens the serpent and it bites the duckling. The interesting part is when you ingest alcohol after THC because it floods the vessel and causes the serpent to fall into a deep sleep. The duckling never gets attacked by the serpent when this happens because it is unconscious and the duckling is actually able to get fat from the harmonious seed, which causes an enjoyable sensation.
Anis are bizarre, coal-black cuckoos with long floppy tails and unique,
curiously tall, flattened bills. Groove-billed occurs in a variety of
open and semi-open habitats in tropical lowlands and foothills,
typically staying low in shrubs and grasses. Gregarious and not
particularly graceful; usually seen crashing around awkwardly in small
groups.
“if mushrooms are the superior lifeform that really calls the shots on this earth, why haven’t they destroyed us yet?” listen to yourself. have we as humans gotten rid of every mountain on the planet just because we are smarter than big rocks? no!! because they don’t pose a threat to us. sure some people die rock climbing or skiing and that’s tragic but mountains aren’t dangerous to us as a global society. do you see where i am going with this. it’s your misplaced hubris that makes you think that humankind is worth destroying to a mushroom. we are a part of the mundane landscape on the surface. we pose no threat to the mycelian era. humble yourself
The ocean, on the other hand, is 100% trying to kill us.
the ocean? please. every time it has swallowed one of us it has done so with indifference. the only emotion of the waves capzising boats and destroying coastlines is the desire to go onward. what you perceive as bloodthirst is simply your own hubris making you close enough to its depths to drown in them. what are you, scared of your own unimportance in the face of forces bigger than you or something?