Forever Young: 05/30/12

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 30, 2012

the night before…jc

just saying "hi"

jcmclovin

JC, Rosie and Reese had their last convo in Reese and Rosie’s chat room before JC’s big day…The day he has longed for.

We laughed, we cried…

We hugged and we loved!

JC’s dad arrives….JC is so thrilled. We told him he must be pretty special to his dad for him to make the trip…all alone…he agrees proudly “yes, I am his SON”.

Bianca is out searching…..searching for that perfect dress.

Friends are planning…making sure of every last detail.

Earlier in the day Rosie asked me if I received my invite in the mail. I replied with “not yet, but our mail is running on the late side today”…I then asked if she received hers and she replied “I received a restraining order”…oh so funny!

Reese to Rosie, “Rosie, I wish we could do something special for JC and Bianca for their wedding” and Rosie came up with the brightest, neatest idea. Skywriting!...yup, skywriting!!! Oh this would have just been perfect…..The cost was anywhere between 1 and 5 thousand dollars. Rosie figured if we were to go through with this, we could only afford 2 letters which would be “hi”.

We will be with you! Scrunched down on our bellies…Rosie wriggles and giggles and cries a river…I knew she would…..I calm her…

Sending the best wishes ever to:

…Mr & Mrs JC McLovin…

Congrats!