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, April 22, 2012

Walk with me…

Come walk with me,
Side by Side-
If you’re 2 steps ahead,
Decrease your stride!

Come game with me,
We’ll keep the bet low-
My coins build up,
While yours seem to go!

Come talk with me,
And do be my friend-
We can laugh and we can cry,
A shoulder I can lend!

Come walk with me,
Side by Side-
If you’re 2 steps ahead,
I’ll increase my stride!

I’d walk a mile to be with my friends!!!
You say “how will this be possible? I would start out slow, step by step…sitting on grass & leaning up against trees when my legs will take me no more. It may take me a long long time, but I would walk that mile. I would finish it for my friends. I know they would do the same for me…so, come walk with me…
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2 comments:

  1. RosieApril 22, 2012 at 8:48 PM

    OMG REESE!!! I love this
    love love love it.

    Perfect tone to it.

    wow

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  2. JCApril 22, 2012 at 8:56 PM

    dammit rosie beat me to it!! I LOVE THIS TOO.. love love love it! you rock

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