Blog Manifesto

Blog Manifesto


This blog is dedicated, as the title would suggest, to the qualities of being young. We are young writers. We are playful and sensitive, fluid and changing. We are unashamed with our art. We wonder at the world, puzzle over the meanings of things and twirl in delight at images and ideas that float by, grabbing at them as they pass. We are curious and constantly inquiring and prying concepts open and taking assumptions apart. We are on the ground, close to the earth. We have bare feet and wiggle our toes into nature. We carry our blankies still and wrap up cozy and comfy with each other and tell ghost stories and shiver at creepy things. We laugh and we cry and we take a lot of naps, drained from our outings and exertions.

We write as gifts to each other, tying them up in ribbon and leaving them around for each other to find, hiding and waiting for the person to wake up and read. Surprise! We weave our stories together to create a bond. One writes, then the other. then another again. We have a shared reality that we have crafted, bit by piece by patch, by string. We write simple, honest authentic things, with our unique voices. You can tell each one of us from the other, without knowing who wrote what. Our voices are clear and gentle and original. We whisper and our personalities roar! Like children, our feelings are strong, our passion for what we write shakes us. We are moved and sometimes left breathless, by our own words or the words of each other. We cannonball into each others spaces. We fall backward into each others writing, like into a pile of leaves or a soft bed. We gobble and grin and ask for more. (footnote kudos to JC)

Then we go to bed, wake up to a new day and do it all over again!

Sunday, February 12, 2012

A new perspective


My favorite story about perspective is the one about the wheel.  If you fix a light onto a wheel rim and turn the wheel what figure does the movement of the light describe in space.  Well, it depends on where the viewer is.

From the front the light appears to go round and round. in a circle.  but... if the viewer is on the hub of the wheel.. the light doesn't appear to move at all.  If the viewer is looking from the side of the wheel at 90 degrees from the face of the wheel, then the light appears to goes up and down in a straight line.

We have added a new viewer and writer to this blog.  A new perspective to cherish and encourage.  May his light whirl and dance with ours as we write and share our unique perspectives on life.

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Forced perspective is fun to draw.  I get a kick out of drawing a big foot stomping on a little bug from the bug's view.   I shorten up the knees and expand out the shoe and  distort the picture with glee.

Distorting reality is fun.   (big grin)  I am particularly fond of impossible objects such as are in the works of M.C. Escher.



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