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!

Saturday, March 17, 2012

Compassion.

I'm exhausted in eyes and fingers, but my mind is still spinning.

Compassion is a helping word.  You cannot be passive and still have compassion.   You must have a strong desire to relieve the suffering you see.  You share their pain and listen to their suffering, and you reach out to help reduce it.  Compassion allows both people to feel uplifted and neither are drained.

But practicing compassion can slide into toxic codependency.  There are pitfalls you have to watch out for.

Co-dependency is not the same as compassion.   I could expound on and on about the differences at midnite as my eyes blurr,  or cheat and hand out a prewritten url.



 http://www.creativepathtogrowth.com/tag/compassion-versus-codependency/


and this url  http://www.integrallifework.com/images/Compassion&Codependence.pdf  a real gem of new age love and wholeness.



I fail the most at being compassionate with myself.  I need to tend to my own little mental owies with the same non judgmental affection I tend to my friends. 

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