flame in the snow
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"There is in your soul a whole world of mysterious and enchanted thoughts. --Tyuchev."
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38 years old
Our Fair City, ALASKA
United States
Last Login:7/24/2008
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flame in the snow's Interests
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| General | Autism, books, music, art, religious faith, children, animals, plants ... saving the world lol. :)
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| | Music | I will listen to anything from Rakhmaninov to Enya to the Beatles to Depeche Mode to Los Lobos.
| | Movies | Fifth Element; Monty Python; A Fish Called Wanda; Hero; The Phantom of the Opera; Milo and Otis ...
| | Television | My older children are obsessed with Gray's Anatomy and Desperate Housewives right now. Other than a few minutes of Nova now and then, I don't have time for TV. I'm usually playing with my little ones. | | Books | Clara Claiborne Park's The Seige is an amazing description of one family's journey, step by step, with their daughter who was diagnosed with autism at a time when there was very little understanding of the condition. Even more amazing is the fact that they had very little professional support to begin with, but they persevered.
I just finished the sequel to The Seige, entitled Exiting Nirvana, A Daughter's Life with Autism. Clara Park has managed to synthesize years of data collection into an amazingly readable and joyful book. Her daughter's paintings and sketches are a source of fascination to me, as well as her systems and associations, and the description of how her language developed. Clara wrote that she had, in her kitchen, a set of envelopes, separated into several categories, where the family recorded data on Jessy. The thing that struck me most was the amount of love poured into Jessy by the family, especially the mother, but also by all of the volunteers and "housemates" over the years. Without this "village", Jessy's life would have developed so richly and fully. (A side note: Jessy's paintings are factual and magical at the same time, they're quite beautiful.)
I finally read A Thorn in My Pocket, by Eustacia Cutler.
Her elegantly understated eloquence speaks for all of us parents. If Temple's Thinking in Pictures was a re-baptism of my idea of what it is to be human, Eustacia's tale stimulates me to re-evaluate my thoughts about maternity. I admire her bravery in the face of the misunderstandings of what autism was at the time her daughter was young. | | Heroes | Iulia de Beausobre, Maya Angelou, Emily Dickinson, Maria Skobstova, Anna Akhmatova. Princess Ileana of Romania. Ghandhi. Martin Luther King. Everyone who wakes up in the morning and is able to get out of bed.
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Russians United, Poetry, Philosophy Talks, Poetry Walks, Autism LOVE, Autism Today, High Functioning Autistic People, poetryalive1, United Aspies
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flame in the snow's Details
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| Status: | Divorced | | Here for: | Friends | | Hometown: | Our fair city | | Body type: | Average | | Ethnicity: | White / Caucasian | | Religion: | Christian - other | | Zodiac Sign: | Scorpio | | Children: | Proud parent | | Income: | Less than $30,000 |
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About me:
Autism activist. Newbie poet. Monster mom. Fierce friend.
I love books and will read almost anything that has graced the printed page, from Temple Grandin, Dawn Prince-Hughes, Leskov, J.K. Rowling to Rumi.
Oh, dear, I'm already too shy to go any further....
Check out www.upthestaircase.org, www.luciolepress.org, www.janecrown.com ... if you are interested in new poetry ...
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Who I'd like to meet:
Anyone who would like to make life into poetry, other parents of autistic children, or anyone who would like to chat, especially those who want to take the time to think a little more deeply than usual. 
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