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Here we go ho ho! It’s time for your annual play of SkealThis free skiing game is an RPS Christmas tradition
This free skiing game is an RPS Christmas tradition
With Christmas barely a week away, it’s time to start celebrating my own RPS Christmas traditions. Games to play, songs to time, surprises to spring. Let’s start with a wee surprise. Pull on your mittens, fill your flask with cocoa, and clip-click-skkrachk those ski boots, for it is time to play the free downhill slalom gameSkeal.
You’re done?
That’s fun, isn’t it.
Merry Christmas, it’s time to play SkealI include a video only for Scrooges who won’t play Skeal. If you’re going to play it, don’t watch this!Watch on YouTube
Merry Christmas, it’s time to play Skeal
This year I’m late to start my wee round of RPS Christmas traditions (hell, I once started in November) because honestly, I’d forgotten. It’s been a rough old year on about every front and my brain has turned to mush. Then when I did remember, I almost skipped it. Was not feeling it. I’m fully spent. But I think it’s valuable to continue traditions especially at those times you’re not feeling it. Playing Skeal today, I feel some of those banked emotions flowing into me. A little pep talk from the past. More than that, it places this moment on a continuum. I don’t know that’s next but I have left another footstep in the sand alongside you all. And if nothing else, I have now played Skeal. It is a good joke.
I am reminded of Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing’s opening toThe Mushroom At The End Of The World: “What do you do when your world starts to fall apart? I go for a walk, and if I’m really lucky, I find mushrooms.”
When my world is falling apart at Christmas, I play Skeal, and if I’m really lucky, we find our power, our pleasure, our pain.
