{"id":1092,"date":"2007-05-08T12:45:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-08T12:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/chatteringmind\/2007\/05\/play-sets-and-tree-houses-for.html"},"modified":"2007-05-08T12:45:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-08T12:45:00","slug":"play-sets-and-tree-houses-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/chatteringmind\/2007\/05\/play-sets-and-tree-houses-for.html","title":{"rendered":"Play Sets and Tree Houses for the Spiritually Directed"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Tree house\/play house designer Barbara Butler has such a lovely website<\/a>, I thought you’d enjoy exploring it–like your own online jungle gym. <\/p>\n

Butler designs elaborate playground environments for public use<\/a>, as well as tree houses and play houses for the kids of the rich and famous <\/a>(scroll down here<\/a> to learn that “Don’t Worry, Be Happy” singer Bobby McFerrin<\/a> was an early client). Here’s <\/a>what she advises any do-it-yourself-ers who are setting up their own backyards for better scampering, swinging, and hanging around this spring. And here<\/a> are the nontoxic paints and stains she uses to tint her fairybook structures. Butler strikes me as a woman who follows her bliss!<\/p>\n

I found a sweet treehouse poem<\/a> for you by David Anthony, <\/a> who calls the treetop play space a “refuge when in doubt,” and a home of “personal awareness.” I’m confident that even today’s automated, high-tech kids light up when they spy one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tree house\/play house designer Barbara Butler has such a lovely website, I thought you’d enjoy exploring it–like your own online jungle gym. 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