Play is the Fountain of Youth…
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photos & videos by freya magnusdottir
We need it now more than ever.
We need environments that restore play as a birthright.
We need communities that presume the competence and strengths of neurodivergent children.
We need places worldwide where children’s health and well-being are prioritized as they engage in True Play.
We are creating that place between the mountains and the ocean in the Piedmont of North Carolina.
PlayShire is a private, family-run, pandemic-informed, mixed-age micro-school that centers the needs of neurodivergent children in the backyard “shire” of the DePass Family in Greensboro, N.C.
an island created by volcanoes
iceland’s geothermic pools and black sand beaches create stunning compositions from the air. both are created by the island’s constant volcanic activity.
natural beauty in its rawest form
iceland’s surface is carved by water, originating from either its massive glaciers or abundant rainfall.
the sun’s angle at this latitude produces deep and contrasty colors, drawing out the blacks in the volcanic soil and saturating the greens from the grasses and moss.