So. What's literacy.
Literacy-
1. the quality or state of being literate; the ability to read and write.
2. possesion of education.

This is supposed to be a...literacy blog. I am literate, obviously since I'm not typing gobbledy-gook. But words aren't my prime form of communication, I'm an image-driven person, I use my eyes to see what looks good and to convey emotions through images rather than words. I just happen to be able to read and write on top of that.
However, I've been raised to be a literate person, my mom shut off the cable at age 6 and with a lack of Beavis and Butthead, Hey Arnold and other shows, I retreated to a book world as my nightly soap opera. My earliest memories of reading are with my mother, in her huge bed reading classics such as Ann of Green Gables and Little House on the Prairie. Maybe my mom meant to feed me slightly feministic-angled novels, maybe she just thought I'd connect more to a female protagonist, but either way these strong female characters shaped a lot of the image of myself that I grew to have.
My mom took control of the 'book knowledge' while my Dad took me to art museums, bought me paint sets and sketchbooks, and took me camping and taught me how to live in nature. It was a priority to her that I read, so I devoured books almost whole, reading even the biggest Harry Potter tome in a week, in 4th grade.
So what does literacy mean to me?
The passion connected to books, to have more than the skill to read but the passion to enjoy it.