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!

Monday, March 19, 2012

Books

Favorite? One? Not possible...because...

Sometimes a book is needed and I read: Living With Dying...Lameness In Horses, Generic Pharmacology.
Good reads...necessary and educational.

Sometimes a book is just laying there: Jokes To Read On the Throne...The Complete Auto Mechanic...Burial Traditions of Western Cultures.
Hard sells...Maybe interesting, maybe entertaining.

Sometimes a book is a good way to fall asleep: Supposedly Fun Things I'll Never Do Again...Green Eggs and Ham...I'll Teach My Dog 100 Words.
Proven sleep producers ( in my house anyway).

Some books are for growing up: the Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian, the Art of Racing in the Rain, the Yearling.
Must reads for young and old.

Some books are for letting go: Stranger in a Strange Land, the Illustrated Man, the Grief Workbook.
Life enhancers and challengers.

Others are real life:  the $80 Champion, Unbroken, the Map That Changed the World.
Significant , learned, and thorough.

And some are just a part of me and I wouldn't be who I am without them: anything by Dick Francis, anything by Michael Crichton, a book by Laura Esquivel.

Well written with lovely words and turns of a phrase that make me envious of their talent.....and these are the ones I mention now because I am who I am now.  Ask me again tomorrow!









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  1. JCMarch 19, 2012 at 12:37 AM

    so cool how we all come at it from different vantage points with all different books.. and all lighthearted and humorous. very cool :D

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