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, April 21, 2012

Special Events House

Oh, you need directions to the Hanley House?   You must be from out of town.  Let me walk with you aways.  It's easier to get to via the garden cut through.

No, I don't mind.   I like to look at the flowers.  Prettiest flowers in town,  The spinsters Hanley always kept the gardener busy with the plantings.  They hired a landscaper from England to come over here and reproduce the Hanley Gardens of  Tollington,  London,, where the Baronet Hanley had his notorious estate.

There was a time when being a Hanley in this town meant something.   This house saw some of the best society and not just anyone could get an invite,  No, by hank, they couldn't.   Old General Hanley would not put up with new Money. 

Over this way, through the arches. 

Are you in for the Medical Marijuana convention?  I thought so.  There are a lot of people coming in this week for that.   Hanley House was inherited two years ago by the remaining great nephew and turned into a Special Events House.  Viola Hanley would turn over in her grave if she could see the riff raff tromping through her house, pulling on the curtains.  peeking in the cupboards,  sitting down on her furniture like they owned the place.

I heard tell from one of the maids there, that the last renters had brought in lights and produced a specialty porn flick,  Debbie Does Diarrhea.     She said the director was a method actor and gave the actors and models as they like to call them,  senekot and let them go at it.   She said they also had to take up the floor boards in the dining room because of his vision.  

Don't let it worry you none, the smell of marijuana covers up most of the remaining odor.  They've got the Miss Marijuana pageant there tomorrow out on the veranda.   I'll be by for the smoke off.  I wouldn't miss it.

Let me get the door for you.   Knock knock, knock. 
Montesano, WA - Hubble House 01

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  1. SharonApril 21, 2012 at 1:07 AM

    So funny...where'd you get the picture? What you describe is very close to the wild parties thrown there by the gay directors. The town still talks about those parties! When I worked on the shadow pictures at Christmas they hung between the posts on the porch. There were seven. Maybe I'll find a picture of those.

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  2. JiniApril 21, 2012 at 1:18 AM

    I love this. I can see the conversation as if its 3d. I love the way you made it one sided. I provide the questions and looks on my own. Little details here and there; so effective. So real.

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  3. JCApril 21, 2012 at 3:02 AM

    ok im still in stitches over 'debbie does diarrhea'

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