Tag: Autism
Fun House – summer sentences
Toys R Us: museum of the mature, fun house of the child at heart. Summer Sentences is a writing project using Allen Ginsberg’s American Sentences Poetic form — one line of poetry co... Read More
Love for Strangers
The images I have for that day are all contrived; I was away when John called telling me Caleb had climbed the fence and was gone. But the panic was real, so my imagination filled in the details, bu... Read More
Dec 25 – By your side
Merry Christmas! Advent is complete and so is this Advent writing journey. Psalm 85 has been providing some grazing space for me for a couple of months now – especially the section which beg... Read More
Dec 22 – Arrival
Their arrival surpassed expectations – how could they not change us, as we opened ourselves to new life? Yes, there were surprises. We never anticipated Caleb to be 1 in 68 affected by autism no... Read More
Dec 20 – Voice
I know a little about speechlessness – about its backstage management, cluttered with props and crowded with the hustle of participants involved in the onstage performance. It’s a tricky languag... Read More
Dec 16 – Enough
Trying to be enough, I sometimes crack and crumble into myself. It doesn’t have to make sense; I’m spent, sapped, stripped – not enough. Their needs easily outstrip my resources, but my he... Read More
Dec 15 – Yes
Yes. I have assented, agreed, yielded, given over, made space, transferred assets, thrown in my lot, given the go-ahead, the nod, the green light, the O.K., the stamp of approval, Holding arms open To... Read More
Dec 12 – Living Together
Caleb is an adult now – technically anyway. Mentally I crumple the map we might have used to launch him into independence. He will never live on his own. He will never come to us with disorien... Read More
Dec 9 – Stand Up
Moses killed a man, stirred up as he was, finally admitting he was a brother to the defenseless one under attack. Oh it was a mistake, to be sure, a crime of passion, anger not yet refined in the fi... Read More- 2 of 3
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