By RHETA MOAZZAMI
Los Alamos

Ms. Carr, you seem to be distraught by the reading by Little Miss Hot Mess at the Mesa Public Library today (link). I read the short article you linked me to, but still, your last sentence has me bumfuzzled, “Certainly some will be supportive, regardless, but let us not extrapolate to insert personal biases to justify that support and focus on the intended purpose “play as praxis, aesthetic transformation, strategic defiance, desensitization of shame, and embodied kinship.”

You made me look up a word–praxis. From what I read; it just means practice. So, what personal biases would I even need to extrapolate to “justify”(?) play as practice, aesthetic transformation, strategic defiance [obviously of bias against a group of people] desensitization of shame, and embodied kinship.

They all seem to be perfectly appropriate goals which, I should think, most world religions, if they followed the teachings of their founders, would embrace.  What a wonderful thing to help children with all of the above.

I feel very sad for anyone who needs to fight against those–sadder still for their children. They all sound to me like part of a recipe for growing healthy children.