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  • #ActuallyAutistic Auditory Matrixing and also I Got A New Fan

    #ActuallyAutistic Auditory Matrixing and also I Got A New Fan

    Whether it’s the weird sounds of a new all-plastic fan or the melodic symphony of everyday life (think: “@#$%”), I embrace the beauty of unexplainable moments, and cherish the unique ways my mind interprets the world around me.

  • Acquainted with Mr. Murphy

    Acquainted with Mr. Murphy

    I feel like I haven’t blogged in so long! ((Because I haven’t.)) Some of you may know that myself, partner, and son participated in a documentary a few years ago. For our part, we spoke of the transgender experience. The docu-film isn’t through being edited and produced, but I stop and think of how different…

  • Snowing in the bedroom

    Snowing in the bedroom

    It’s Autumn, not winter. Let me explain. But first-butterflies. This plant attracts butterflies, like these pictures I took at the beach: (They let me get very close). A funny thing happened last night. I’m collecting these milkweed pods for a craft project I’ll eventually share here… so I’m keeping the pods on my bedroom shelf…

  • FINDING MY NORMAL

    I have a blog here today:   https://the-art-of-autism.com/finding-my-normal/?fbclid=IwAR3AgTQ8HypyRQXglCmZPRpjO1WGli3yZpzcQFqARWfMYfH-OGNmTvmNYbk  

  • The Orange Comes, The Orange Fades

    The Orange Comes, The Orange Fades

              I see their heavy heads hanging. And last night’s rain that sopped the too-tall grass surrounding the tilted stems. Kind of making me feel heavy; over there with their petals in their faces. The sunflowers have nodded off. The glory part of their season seems over.  I think nodding off…

  • Runaway Bardos, lessons learned in retrospect

    Runaway Bardos, lessons learned in retrospect

    I’m reading this book: In Love with the World: A Monk’s Journey Through the Bardos of Living and Dying Hardcover – May 7, 2019 by Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche  (Author), Helen Tworkov (Author) Through the “bardos…” Bardos: Defined by wiki: ‘Used loosely, “bardo” is the state of existence intermediate between two lives on earth. According to Tibetan tradition, after death and before…

  • Phenomenal Women

    My blog is here today. See link below image. It honors women. https://the-art-of-autism.com/women-are-phenomenal/

  • My Podcast Episode 37 at Different Brains Spectrumly Speaking

    Hello all. I’ve had a productive month of ups and downs, just getting over shingles actually. I’m feeling better. I hope to post actual WRITING here soon, instead of updates. But I wanted to mention the podcast interview that aired today. Link follows this post. I’ve been doing a lot of software work, digital art,…

  • Random Insights, New Collage

    Random Insights, New Collage

    Here’s a random thing that happened recently: I was given a prescription for compression socks because I have an enlarged saphenous vein. Boy are those stockings stretchy! Last week, at a routine exam at my GP, I started removing my compression socks to get an EKG. Compression socks are so springy that one flew out…

  • Only So Much A Soul Can Bear?

    Only So Much A Soul Can Bear?

    Sometimes I feel like a sponge.

  • Aftermaths

    Aftermaths

    …I saw this old fashioned looking smoke alarm on the ceiling. “I bet that doesn’t even work,” I said-…

  • Hangry For Peaceful Moments

    Hangry For Peaceful Moments

    There is a phenomenon in nature known as ‘crown shyness.’ Some trees have gaps in the canopy. Those reluctances to touch are intentional. When I think of trees, -when I depict them in paint or ink or graphite, I am most apt to ensure they intertwine, ‘holding hands in the sky’ (so to speak) much…

  • On Curiosity 

    On Curiosity 

    My autodidactic passion for learning is perpetual. And Einstein is right. Question everything. There’s a reason for curiosity. It leads to lots of things. On that note, why would someone make curious art like this? Because they can. Because it’s cool.  Art. Here is a story about a mural I painted years ago.  The woman…

  • From basalt to armpits, rebooting an introverted brain

    From basalt to armpits, rebooting an introverted brain

    That feeling of being disappointed over circumstance and powerless, apathy with life, uncertainty and indecision with the future. People around me, when they feel that way, when they’re hurting, my empath takes over and I just…absorb it. Because each self declared “stuck in quagmire” person who’s expressed that lately (in my circle) is an inspiration…

  • power of words

    power of words

    Oh the Power of Words, especially unspoken and feared ones, the ones we don’t ever want to hear, which lay coiled in wait for unguarded moments to strike. And when least expected. Unleashed, some words cut as if freshly sharpened from whetstones. And, of course, the opposite is also true:  words can be blankets. Soothing…

  • kudos Keri Bowers, Art of Autism

    In Bulgaria, the idiom “Friendship is friendship, but cheese costs money,” is one I came across and puzzled over for a meaning. From what I have come to understand it means not to take advantage of a friend’s generosity. Even if a person prefers isolation as their natural state of being, the symbiotic nature of…

  • On Gratitude and Having a Voice Again

    On Gratitude and Having a Voice Again

    This is my 200th post. My very first one was about my thumb… This is what Al has been up to: Al has been making salsa all day and will be canning many jars of it. I was walking through the grocery store yesterday as we shopped for the week and chose produce for the…

  • A Bat As Bathos, or Remembering that Nonsense Wakes Up The Brain Cells (Quote from Dr. Suess)

    A Bat As Bathos, or Remembering that Nonsense Wakes Up The Brain Cells (Quote from Dr. Suess)

    The lane debouched into a close-bitten field, and out of this empty land the farm rose up with its buildings like a huddle of old, painted vessels floating in still water…

  • SEVEN THINGS I LEARNED ABOUT LIFE by playing Words With Friends

    SEVEN THINGS I LEARNED ABOUT LIFE by playing Words With Friends

    Seven Things I Learned About Life by Playing Words With Friends (DEFINING Words With Friends: a “Scrabble-style” game that can be played through Facebook on a computer, or on one’s own phone, using  a cell phone app. Overall Objective: Players exchange turns forming words horizontally or vertically on the board, trying to score as many points as possible for…