St GEORGIA & Boo

out beyond the ideas of rightdoing and wrongdoing there is a field.. ill meet you there. Rumi

Category: the children

  • We are learning about space. Imagining whats our there, trying to conceive how big the universe really is, how little we are and really know. The one thing i have noticed the most since coming here, is the stars. Rarely in life, did i look up. Now i can’t help but not. Here in this…

  • We have been enjoying what could be the final warm days before winter approaches. Our beach explorations are almost a daily ritual now. I imagine we will just trade our  bare feet for woollen beanies and gumboots and continue on through the colder seasons, rather than forgoing this regular adventure we have become so accustomed…

  • life on the autism journey is always a bitter-sweet battle for me. The battle rather has more to do with the outside world than the sanctuary of our own spaces.  My predicament comes from trying to figure out how much do I insist he learn to change and conform himself to fit into what has…

  • It is hard to explain and accept that you can’t just assume that he will always embrace your affections. That after hours or days or even weeks of not seeing his delightful smile, that he would openly allow you to take him into your arms. So that you may show him how much you love him, how…

  •   Dear… I am sending you this in response to a conversation you had with a student, my daughter, a few weeks ago prior to the end of term.Firstly I wish to express that by writing this letter, by no means am I wanting this to cause any disturbance or ill feelings with in the…

  •   thoughts over lunch.

  •   dear girls.

  • “I will teach my daughter not to wear her skin like a druken apology. I will teach her ‘make a home out of your body live in yourself, do not let people turn you into a regret, do not justify  yourself. If you are a disaster it is not forever, if you are a disaster…

  •   ‘My love is selfish. I cannot breathe without you. -John Keats

  •  “My love is selfish. I cannot breathe without you. -John Keats

  • there should be a two-year period after high school where it is socially expected that kids not work, or go to school or do anything but take road trips, read books, meet new people and take lots of pictures.. -via withshoeslikethat what a wondrous ‘une période de transition’  from adolescence to adulthood and learning about one’s…

  •   sometimes we find ourselves so busy in our routines that we forget to be spontaneous and can miss the magic that is always out there just waiting for us, to pause long enough to simply notice. On this day we did just that, we noticed, stopped, and said hello.  

  •   Its taken a while, to get to this place. Where our boo is happy to play along side baby Georgie. We have been eagerly waiting and hoping that he would one day embrace and accept her existence. I’m happy to report we are there.  It seems to be that all we needed was time,…

  • “And you’ll always love me won’t you? Yes And the rain won’t make any difference? No Ernest Hemingway