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, March 11, 2012

hair today gone tomorrow..

good lord.. why did i ever say i can write on ANY topic?  there is obviously something very very wrong with me.  i guess i was flexing my newly developed writing muscles. 
now, my ego is taking a humbling hit..

im blank.

rosie's decidedly going light.  so.........

i have a student.  he is eleven.  this kid is bright as a wiz.  keeps me on my toes.  and i happily try to keep him thinking.  beyond lessons in voice and piano, we discuss ideas.  it all relates back to what we talk about in lesson.. it all relates back to music.. somehow.  ~grins.  we talk physics.  we even dragged rosie into one of our many mind expanding conversations.. about patterns.  rosie totally blew his mind when she said that what we were discussing was one of many fundamental topics quantum physicists debate. 

  • his mother calls me and tells me that he has lost a close classmate to cancer.
  • he comes to lesson with a website address for me to visit.  his entire class is donating their hair.
  • he comes to lesson with a shaved head..  and a picture of his entire class, boys and girls.. with completely shaved heads. 

pretty powerful stuff.
i couldnt donate enough.



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