Archive | December, 2009
babygrace

I must have been a Buddhist in a past life.

by jennifer on 20. Dec, 2009 in musings

I have spent the past 11 years fending off misconceptions that I must hate my life and that I must be angry or depressed about my son.  Often those misconceptions come from people without direct experience with disability – sometimes I explain, but mostly I just continue to live my life as authentically as possible, [...]

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ghoul

Impolitic

by jennifer on 09. Dec, 2009 in musings

(I got it!  It came to me this morning.  And it’s so very unCanadian.) I am not going to help you through your discomfort and make it all better.  I can’t.  And I don’t want to.  ‘This’ is not just happening to me – you are here too, seeing, reacting, feeling.  Something is happening to [...]

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My Theory of Relativity

by jennifer on 05. Dec, 2009 in musings, social

Sometimes I cheer people up.   Not because I try to, but because sometimes people will compare their own stresses to what they assume are mine and will be drawn to ‘count their blessings’.  I suppose I should live and let live, but I am drawn to comment… (I find this type of post hard to [...]

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