A Half Sleepless Night

I sat down to write and nothing came out. My mind was cluttered and I was apprehensive. It was a long day, a long week, and the hours dragged on. I was fret with worry and aghast at some current terrorizing events taking place in my beloved city. There was a threat made to the innocent. How can people be this way and do these things? I don't ever remember growing up in fear. Our children know this as commonplace now. Most people today, I think live in fear. We feel it in the pit of our stomach as it is where fear likes to pool and drag us into ourselves as we implode. How can we fight this fear? With our minds. The one thing that we can control is our mind, our capacity to think, to reason, to create. We must have a strong mind to carry on in this world that seems more and more to be out to get us. Violence begets violence and hate perpetuates this vicious cycle. There still is always a time to rise up and fight back. How do we balance this though? With our minds. We can make ourselves better and in turn make the lives that come after us better too. So, with the festering thoughts of the worst that can happen, I took an inventory of the things in my life that are beautiful and those which I love. I thought to myself that fundamentally speaking, terrible things can happen at anytime, and there is a tragedy in someone putting a set date on such a thing because it brings to light the fact that we are not so free as we tend to think, we're not as safe always as we like to believe, but this is the case all the time. I came to the momentary conclusion (I say momentary because we are allowed to change our minds, that's what they are for) that sometimes all we can do is be brave, be brave for us, the ones we love, for our children, and for the future. And ultimately we can live a life we love and let those that are in our lives know always, no matter what, we love them. I then fell asleep knowing that for that day at least I felt I accomplished that. 

Cognitive Manifesto is trying to make this world a better place through many different outlets and mediums. We will be having our first event at our new headquaters/studio in May paying homage and tribute to the origin of all of us, the beautiful, the powerful, the glorious and divine Woman. Just in time for Mother's Day too. Please like our page on Facebook. Also if you ever see one of the CM staff at our event or anywhere around town please come chat with us, especially if you would like to contribute because this is also an outlet for YOU 

Sincerely yours,

Nicholas Gomez

Tonight is the night of our last event at a venue!

I am overwhelmingly excited about the success of this project and the staff working hard to take everything to the next level. It's crazy. Robert Kemmerer and I (Josie V Eclecticism), when we first started, felt as though there wasn't much of an outlet for artists to self publish themselves. We came up with this project not just for our own Art, but for all of the artists in San Antonio looking for an outlet and people who want to be artists. Let this project motivate you! Now, we have our own headquarters located downtown near Hays Bridge in San Antonio, TX and are truly growing. Sky's the limit. Cheers! Can't wait for tonight. Hope to see you there--Josie.