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!

Thursday, March 15, 2012

Comment a thon



Until recently we have been chatting our comments after writing in IM and while it works quite nicely ---

Using the comment structure on the blog is an IMPROVEMENT.   Sharon's comments are very appreciated by me, as they are tucked in specific to the post and one can continue the conversations if wished.

I will be going back and adding comments to past posts here and there and anywhere.
If you want to do that too, go ahead

Your email notices may get a bit cloggy at first.  with chuckles, related stories and thank you notes.

Our writing has always been thought provoking.  I love getting feedback and giving it too.

Happy blogging and commenting!


PS!  Sharon, before I forget.  Please make a play list. see side of blog. ---------------->
Make a list,  get the code, make a new post on here.  Switch from compose to html  Paste the code into the box,  voila new play list.  yay!!
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  1. SharonMarch 16, 2012 at 12:46 PM

    Oh, Rosie...you dear thing...thinking I know how to make a playlist! (or even can recognize it as a group of song titles) My knowledge of playlists is from dialogue on television related to young people sharing theirs...and my daughter's grouping of all my son's CDs on an ipod for me to listen to (and my buying an ipod dock with two speakers so that I identify it as a 'stereo' and can approach it less timidly). Geez, I hate to sound so old fashioned and recognize myself in my own perceptions of the elderly. But, I'm forever amazed at how inflexible I've become as an elder. It seems quite daunting for me to 'learn' how to apply a set of music to a Blog. Thanks for expecting me to want to do that and presuming I can learn how! You will make me modern (if it can be done!)In appreciation, Sharon

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