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 12, 2012

tenacity

when i think of tenacity.. i think of a bulldog with a tug toy.. gritting its teeth and growling
i think of my mom.. saying 'if they wont let you in the front door, bay.. go in the back'
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i have a friend.. he is 52

big big dude
always smiling
never has an unkind word for anyone
a great friend

he has worked hard all his life.
forgets he isnt 20 anymore.
works in the parks division in the township we live in.
stands ontop of a dumpster at work
flips a huge television into the dumpster
loses his footing
falls 6 feet onto his shoulder

they rush him to the hospital
no broken bones
no nothing

one month later, he falls on the ice and breaks his finger
he's never broken a bone in his life..
a few months later, he finds out there is a tear in his rotator cuff and bicep
rehab 3 months
few months after that, he finds out he has a jones fracture and cant put any weight on the foot for 8 weeks after surgery
again rehab
foot still isnt right.. now he is vitamin D deficient

dude has bad knees too
had arthroscopy a couple years ago..

still always smiling
never an unkind word
tenacious

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dad had a pain in his foot
said it was excruciating
wouldnt go to the doc
hobbled around
sprained his good ankle..

my cousin had to call the ambulance
because he still refused to go to the doc
.. it was gout.
stubborn

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my brother
used to be tenacious
i wonder what happened.
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