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!

Wednesday, May 2, 2012

Nice…ness


Hmmm….

I feel the need to be nice to others…why?...because I want to be liked.
I am not a leader but a follower. With leading I’d have to be on guard, I’d have to watch where I  was going, I’d have to be careful…as a follower, I can just lazily stroll behind.

When it comes to being nice, I am on my own. I am my own leader!
I am responsible for my own actions…naughty or nice!
I agree with others when actually I have a totally different opinion.
I do what others want instead of what I want…in favors of being liked.
If it’s no big deal, which most of the time it isn’t, then why make an issue out of it??? Just so I can be negative???...nah…I’d rather keep peace!!!
I seldom say what’s on my mind…I reserve myself.
Some tell it like it is…if you like it, fine…if not, too bad! I’m not like this type of person.

But…
Sometimes I’m not very nice….
Sometimes I am short with people…
Sometimes I don’t want to agree with everything…
Sometimes my mind is pre-occupied…
Sometimes I want things done my way and only my way…
Sometimes I second guess myself …
Sometimes maybe I just want to express myself…be more outspoken, tell it like it is…
But will people still like me, show me respect or will they say I have changed and run away???

I’d rather be nice…and be liked… than to stand up and be alone!
I do have a backbone!!! It may be twisted and out of place, but it is there and I prefer to leave it alone!

If it is true that a nice person would only be an honest person…
Then…I guess I’m not a nice person…I am not direct with people….or not as often as I should be.

It takes me too long to think…by this time either I said a wrong comment or I think too long at it and that conversation has left and we are onto a new one…

Oh this almost sounds more like an honesty writing!
But I tried putting it as nicely as I could!!!...
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2 comments:

  1. RosieMay 2, 2012 at 3:54 PM

    Honestly Reese! big grin,

    You are perfect.

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  2. JCMay 2, 2012 at 7:58 PM

    reese.. i am in awe of you. sometimes you just say the things i want to say.. and you just say it so much better! candid and straightforward and beautiful. and i will love you no matter what you say or how you say it. you are.. just as rosie said.. perfect. :)

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