Slurping Life

Lose the Inhibitions

Watching as this diverse group of women stood by waiting to go onstage and perform a belly dance, my thoughts were...

How brave and self-assured these women are...mothers, sisters, daughters, women...preparing to go onstage before hundreds of people for a belly dancing performance. 

I felt it...what they have...and I want it...

...that umph go for it spirit...that this is for me do not care what anyone else thinks spirit.

Yeah, that's it. 

It is within me...within you.

Let's go for our dreams. Lose the inhibitions. Drop the excuses.

We have what it takes to achieve our dreams...be our best

Yes, we do.

Can I get a comment high five?

SOOC Saturday ~ Wonder If I Can Make It

This little critter was staring at the top of a park garbage can which was overflowing with inviting treats. He seemed to be contemplating whether or not he could make that leap to the top.

He made me stop and realize that I have been contemplating wonder if I can make it through the nearly unbearable challenges our family has been facing for quite some time now.

For the record, the squirrel made it.

So if God takes care of that little squirrel...

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A gorgeous landscape? A happy face? An unbelievable moment captured in a snap?

What SOOC photo do you have to share this SOOC Saturday [weekend]?

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Just for the record, we are still posting here daily.

Rethinking Autism

My twelve year old son, Mac--who lives with Asperger's Syndrome, and I would like to add our voices in disdain for the "I Am Autism" video which is a product of Autism Speaks. In our opinion, the video vilifies autistic people.

Autism Speaks does not speak for us.

Attitudes create and perpetuate stigmatizing of all who live on the Autistic Spectrum.

Attitudes stigmatize all who live with differences.

I once wrote...

Am I trying to write a book of their lives rather than read the book that has been written?  I believe children come to us with a definite purpose for their lives, and we must love them, study them, and decode their strengths in order to help them fulfill their purpose.  I do not believe we are to mold them into clones of ourselves or others.  Children often spend their entire lives trying to overcome what we make of them.  I do not want that for my sons.

I stand by those words.

Take a higher view of life.

My son accepts your difference.

Won't you accept his?

SOOC Saturday ~ Falling Down

Falling down is

what happens when a mom tries to keep up

with her twelve year old son hopping across railroad tracks.

Don't you love accidental shots?

What SOOC photo do you have to share this SOOC Saturday {weekend}?

Sorry this went up so late. We were here.

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A Light from Within

"People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within."

~ Elizabeth Kubler-Ross ~

Despite family upheaval around him, Mac is preparing for his first photography showing this weekend at the young artists market of a local art festival. He [and his mom] are way excited.

Please join me in wishing him lots of fun.

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~ Mac and I are there daily [totally loving it]. We promise details about how you will be invited to participate and our charitable causes soon...promise. Life has been hectic.

~ I'll see you here tomorrow for SOOC Saturday [weekend].

~ Wil has a project on the horizon.

~ These boys are exhausting me, but in a good way.

~ Thanks for your hugs.

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