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Uncategorized January 18, 2025

Just doing what I can do

Those familiar questions again… “Do you work?” “What do you do?” These questions trigger an awareness that There are a […]

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Uncategorized January 18, 2025

Choosing how to see

Choosing how to see I want to see my story from my own perspective, or from the perspective of someone […]

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Uncategorized October 5, 2024

Labels

Different Labels A reflection on learnings from Uni classes, and personal experience, about the functions, effects of, and usefulness (or […]

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Uncategorized July 5, 2024

Reflections on homemaking

Reflections on homemaking and making myself at home “What do you do? Do you work?” So many assumptions about the […]

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Autism, Marriage June 26, 2024

Postmodernism, discourse and language and autism- my story

For a class at Uni called ‘Citizenship, culture and diversity’ we got to do weekly blogs for one of the […]

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Uncategorized June 1, 2024

Reflecting on the loss of a community of faith

Reflecting on the loss of a community of faith I feel as though I’ve lost all sense of the sacred […]

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Uncategorized March 11, 2024

God our Father, and Mother

God our Father, and Mother? This journey started when I asked the Holy Spirit to give me a picture of […]

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Uncategorized January 5, 2024

Why does it matter what I think?

They said: “What do you want?” “It sounds like you don’t know who you are.” “You need to figure out […]

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Poems July 23, 2023

Liminal Space

Liminal spaces in physical terms can be described as places we pass through, like a doorway, staircase, hallway or bridge. […]

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Poems, Uncategorized July 1, 2023

What to do with the longing

What to do with the longing… I find that certain experiences lead to an acute, heightened awareness of longing I […]

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Poems June 30, 2023

Enough

When I chose ‘Enough’ as my word for the year, I couldn’t really explain why. It’s almost July and I’m […]

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Anxiety, Autism, Poems June 30, 2023

Inclusion

Inclusion What does inclusion really mean? Restrictive, marginalization or freedom? Feeling like I don’t belong Or maybe I never did […]

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