A Retrospective Personal Growth & Spirituality

IF YOU LOOK HARD ENOUGH…

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September 14, 2011

Originally published September 14, 2011

You can find beauty in almost everything.  Even those things that seem to have no beauty in them, at all.  If you look hard enough,…

A Retrospective Grief & Loss Personal Growth & Spirituality

SERENITY

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on
September 13, 2011

Originally published September 13, 2011

I made a decision this week.  It has been a tough month and a half in all aspects of my life.  When I was reflecting…

A Retrospective Autism & Disabilities Parenting & Relationships

One Down

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on
September 12, 2011

Originally published September 12, 2011

Maybe satisfying one OCD will be enough to divert attention from prosthetic leg obsession.

Pray for me.

He’s already seeing better.  The Placebo Effect is alive and…

A Retrospective

THE CONSEQUENCES OF BEING A SENTIMENTALIST

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on
September 11, 2011

Originally published September 11, 2011

First, I have to make a disclaimer.  I am not a hoarder.  I eschew accumulation in my life and I only keep those things that…

A Retrospective Autism & Disabilities Parenting & Relationships

NEVER A DULL MOMENT

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on
September 10, 2011

Originally published September 10, 2011

Having a child with OCD is sort of like being stuck in some Divine Comedy.  For the past month Kellen has been on this obsession…

A Retrospective Autism & Disabilities Parenting & Relationships

Becoming

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on
September 8, 2011

Oiriginally published September 8, 2011

Last night I was talking to a friend about the mutual challenges we have faced as parents of children who suffered clinical Oppositional Defiance Disorder…

A Retrospective Alzheimers Grief & Loss

“The wound is the place where the light enters you.” — Rumi

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on
September 5, 2011

Originally published September 5, 2011

My last chance at sleeping in and here I sit, too early in the morning to even think about looking in the mirror, let alone…

A Retrospective Alzheimers Autism & Disabilities Grief & Loss Parenting & Relationships

Discordance

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on
September 3, 2011

Originally published September 3, 2011

I should not be sitting here doing this.  In fact, I should still be in bed, Saturday morning, and my chance to recenter (in bed,…