Chapter 3- Philosophy: Exercise 3

Exercise 3

Tools required:

Egg timer (the sand in glass variety)

Rubber balls, solid or inflated (varying sizes)

Felt-tip pen

• Flip the timer and begin bouncing the ball. Count how many times you may bounce the ball before the sand runs out.
• Repeat the exercise counting each time and comparing the findings.

• Flip the timer and throw the ball from hand to hand. Count how many times the ball may be thrown before the sand runs out. Repeat.
• Flip the timer and throw the ball up against a wall and catch it again. Count how many times you may do this before the sand runs out. Repeat.
• Flip the timer and (having asked another to participate) throw the ball backwards and forwards to partner. Count the throws before the sand runs out. Repeat.
• Flip the timer, and using two balls now, and partner, throw in unison and catch accordingly, counting how many throws before the sand runs out. Repeat. Thank your partner for their participation.
• Take ball (just one) and write upon it with the pen a sentence which has just become meaningful to you. Without the timer, bounce the ball up and down, giving thought to this sentence and why you might have written it.
• Take a biodegradable ball to the seaside, cliff, or just to fence, and hurl it as far away as possible. Do not retrieve.

[Careful not to do hurt or damage, of course.]