I am interested in helping battered women.

One way to help women who have had emotional
trauma-is to help them "discover the child in them."

Friendship parties are one way to do this. One
format would be to combine rope skipping with singing
and dancing.
FOR EXAMPLE:

We could have a skipping game where the women
pretend that they are alopine flowers.

The two ENDERS would turn the rope-singing:

Two Canadians went rambling
'Long the Garibaldi Way
And came upon a lupind
Merily did it sway

At the word "lupin" the woman representing the lupin
jumps ito the skipping rope-and starts skipping-and
keeps skipping during the chorus.

The same applies to the other women-they may be a
glacier lily-or an Indian paintbrush-or an aster.

At the end, the four women representing flowers sing
this ditty;

The growing season's very short
Autumn is on its way
In October, frost will sprinkle us
And the skies will be gray
In November, snow will bury us
We will dream our cares away
But next summer, we'll be in bloom again
Hope you'll come back some day."

I am using the melody of a song called "The Austrian."

-Vaughan Evans

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