By Amy Fusselman
Part memoir, half manifesto, this exploration of the bottom of America’s obsession with safeguard is triggered via the author’s stopover at to a thrillingly alarming experience playground in Tokyo
On a trip to Tokyo along with her kinfolk, Fusselman stumbles on Hanegi playpark, the place teenagers are sawing logs, hammering nails, stringing hammocks to timber, development open fires. whilst she returns to long island, her conceptions of house, danger, and worry are thoroughly replaced. Fusselman invitations us alongside on her tightrope-walking expeditions with Philippe Petit and overdue evening adventures with the Tokyo park-workers, exhibiting that after we deprive ourselves, and our youngsters, of the event of taking dangers in area, we cause them to much less secure, no more so.
Savage Park is a clean, poetic reconsideration of behaviors in our tradition that — within the guise of defending us — make us numb and inspire us to sleepwalk via our lives. We babyproof our houses; plug our ears to our units whereas strolling throughout the urban. What might ensue if we uncovered ourselves, if — just like the youngsters at Hanegi park — we positioned ourselves in events that require real vigilance? Readers of Rebecca Solnit and Cheryl Strayed will take pleasure in the revelations in Savage Park
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They are like the directions north and south. The second pair of commonly held perspectives, or east and west, are as follows: first, that space is annoyingly in the way; second, that space is a terrifying black hole into which we will one day disappear. The idea that space is in the way hardly needs elucidating. Every day, people move through space while experiencing it as an obstacle. As a resident of New York City, I can’t count the conversations I have had about the merits of avoiding any type of commute for any reason at all across the length or breadth of the city.
She wouldn’t tell us anything about it except that it was a playground; she hoped we liked it; not many foreigners knew about it; and she and Chuck had a nickname for it: Savage Park. Carrying our snacks, water bottles, wipes, money, cameras, phones, clothes, comic books, and toys, Frank and I and the boys dutifully waddled behind her to the train. Just as the Diana Ross Playground is located in the larger Central Park, Savage Park, aka Hanegi Playpark, is located in a larger park called Hanegi Koen.
I am not a doctor. I started running down the block, looking for one. I could see my breath. I ran past the door of the slick pediatric ophthalmologist I had taken both my sons to, to find out that their eyes were fine. I ran past the door of the not-slick adult ophthalmologist I had been to a month before, for the first time ever, to find out that I finally needed reading glasses. I kept going. I was almost at the subway, with the park in front of me. I turned around and ran back to the adult ophthalmologist.