Marginal Places
Marginal Places
Living in today's judging world you can never do whatever you want without people judging. You can’t really be free like a bird and just spend the whole day doing nothing useful and productive like what Frazier did as a child in “the woods”. “The woods” was Frazier and his friends parttime address, destination, purpose, and excuse. When they are in the woods they would tell themselves that they are exploring but they were really breaking the ice, stomping it underfoot by the furlong, throwing rocks at a fresh mudflat to make a craters, shooting frogs with sling shots, making forts, and picking blackberries. In “In Praise of Margins”, Ian Frazier discusses how “marginal” places are important because it lets you be free, independent, and yourself with anyone judging you.
When people hear the word marginal, they would automatically think of like blank space on a page or like a border. But “In Praise of Margin” it means doing whatever you feel at that moment and just be yourself without thinking if its a good or bad idea. Ian Frazier stated that margins are things that people find a waste of time and its not profitable to the society. Everyone is in need of marginal things once in a while. They are things that occur in the spur of the moment such as going to catch crab even if its not crab season or going even sitting there for hours trying to catch a fish, napping after a meal, or even watching television when nothing good is on. Those are all examples of marginal activities. Examples are marginal places can be the park, the woods, the shopping mall, or even the library. Basically anything you can think of and have a good time there can be marginal places or activities. Marginal is significant because you’re free to do whatever you want with no one judging and live life the way you want to.
Frazier talks about marginal activities that he and his friends used to do as children in the woods. He admits that even as
Living in today's judging world you can never do whatever you want without people judging. You can’t really be free like a bird and just spend the whole day doing nothing useful and productive like what Frazier did as a child in “the woods”. “The woods” was Frazier and his friends parttime address, destination, purpose, and excuse. When they are in the woods they would tell themselves that they are exploring but they were really breaking the ice, stomping it underfoot by the furlong, throwing rocks at a fresh mudflat to make a craters, shooting frogs with sling shots, making forts, and picking blackberries. In “In Praise of Margins”, Ian Frazier discusses how “marginal” places are important because it lets you be free, independent, and yourself with anyone judging you.
When people hear the word marginal, they would automatically think of like blank space on a page or like a border. But “In Praise of Margin” it means doing whatever you feel at that moment and just be yourself without thinking if its a good or bad idea. Ian Frazier stated that margins are things that people find a waste of time and its not profitable to the society. Everyone is in need of marginal things once in a while. They are things that occur in the spur of the moment such as going to catch crab even if its not crab season or going even sitting there for hours trying to catch a fish, napping after a meal, or even watching television when nothing good is on. Those are all examples of marginal activities. Examples are marginal places can be the park, the woods, the shopping mall, or even the library. Basically anything you can think of and have a good time there can be marginal places or activities. Marginal is significant because you’re free to do whatever you want with no one judging and live life the way you want to.
Frazier talks about marginal activities that he and his friends used to do as children in the woods. He admits that even as