{"id":24265,"date":"2025-04-02T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-03T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.plato-philosophy.org\/?p=24265"},"modified":"2025-04-21T07:44:32","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T14:44:32","slug":"like-a-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plato-philosophy.org\/like-a-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Like a River"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Roberta Israeloff, PLATO\u2019s co-founder and Board secretary, directs the Squire Family Foundation.&nbsp; Her most recent book, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">What Went Right:&nbsp; Lessons from Both Sides of the Teacher\u2019s Desk<\/span> was co-wriitten with George McDermott, her 10<sup>th<\/sup> grade English teacher.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Like a River<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">We like to walk, my granddaughter and I.&nbsp; We walk down the block, around corners, past an ice cream store and a ballet store where we sometimes stop to buy a sequined skirt.&nbsp; Then we head for the waterfall on the nearby river, and our progress is slow.&nbsp; She likes to balance on the pavers bordering the lawns, and to pick up acorns, pebbles, and sticks.&nbsp; Sometimes we walk in silence, sometimes she sings. &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Sometimes I\u2019m the one who slows us down. \u201cLook at those tree roots,\u201d I said on one of our most recent walks, \u201cthey look like monster\u2019s feet.\u201d&nbsp; She looked but kept walking.&nbsp; \u201cThat cloud looks like a feather,\u201d I said as we wait to cross the street.&nbsp; She picked up a rock and I said it looked like a bar of soap. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">\u201cWhy are you always talking about things looking like other things?\u201d she demanded, curious but also annoyed.&nbsp; I felt challenged, interrogated.&nbsp; We both stopped walking recognizing the legitimacy of her serious question.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Almost immediately I realized I didn\u2019t have a good answer.&nbsp; I didn\u2019t even know where to begin.&nbsp; I mumbled something about how it was fun.&nbsp; She stared at me and rolled her eyes, clearly unimpressed. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">As she licked her ice cream cone, I tried to compose a more comprehensive, thoughtful answer.&nbsp; Why w<em>as<\/em> I so quickly inclined to look at something and see something else.&nbsp; Was there something to be gained by this tendency and if so, what?&nbsp; Why did it seem to come so naturally to me?&nbsp; Did everyone walk through the world this way?&nbsp; Did it confer an advantage? Was it of value?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">I began to wonder if these were in fact philosophical questions.&nbsp; All philosophical questions are hard, but not every hard question is philosophical.&nbsp; Was I simply wondering about the impulse to generate similes and metaphors?&nbsp; Was this rooted in pretend play?&nbsp; That could be a connection my granddaughter would understand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Just a few months back, I remembered, she and I were playing restaurant with the multi-piece plastic kitchen set she\u2019d just received for her fourth birthday, each item very realistically crafted.&nbsp; As she reached into her oven to get the pot that held our peas, I mentioned that she\u2019d need a potholder.&nbsp; \u201cBut the set didn\u2019t come with one,\u201d she said. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">\u201cHere you go,\u201d I said, handing her a sock that I spotted on the floor of her messy room. &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">\u201cNana,\u201d she said, looking first at the sock and then at me as if I were dull, \u201cthat\u2019s a sock\u201d.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">\u201cOr a pretend potholder,\u201d I said. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">She shrugged, OK, whatever, reached for it, and wrapped it around the hot pot handle.&nbsp; Then a sly smile bloomed on her face as if she\u2019d uncovered a secret treasure.&nbsp; Which, in fact, she had \u2013 the liberating realization that you can start with a sock that somewhat resembles a potholder and the next thing you know, trees turn into monsters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">That\u2019s freedom, I thought to myself as we resumed our walk.&nbsp; It\u2019s a short next step to entertain disparate ideas, to see similarities in dissimilar things.&nbsp; Living with metaphor and simile prepares you to range widely and with confidence when presented with open-ended questions with no settled answers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">As we approached the waterfall, the first roar of rushing water grew louder with each step.&nbsp; My granddaughter ran ahead of me.&nbsp; When I caught up, she was climbing on a rock for a better look.&nbsp; She placed her feet apart to keep her balance, stretched her arms overhead as if they were branches, her reddish hair blowing in her face like wind-tossed leaves.&nbsp; You look like a tree, I almost called to her \u2013 but refrained. Maybe she\u2019d had enough teaching for one day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Watching her move lithely from rock to rock, an A.E. 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