Happy New Year
Filed Under (Uncategorized) by Estee on 24-12-2008
I wish everyone a Happy and Peaceful New Year as I take a few moments to capture my blackberry photos I’ve taken throughout 2008. If I had better tools, I may have made this more artistic.
It has been a very difficult year for me personally — but so too for many people I know. May we all find our peace, happiness, and strength in 2009. Time to push out 2008!
Blessings to all!
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Postscript on December 27, 2008. — Those of you who did not read my blog earlier this year may not know that I had borderline ovarian cancer. It was a very scary period and I underwent two surgeries and my body is still in recovery mode. Lance is seen with me at the end of the video, therefore, for a reason. It’s about living life fully. His ex, Sheryl Crow participated in a book called “Crazy Sexy Cancer.” The video is meant to be feminist, humanist — whatever your word du jour is. It’s really about us all “shining brightly” no matter what.
I followed my intuition with the cancer. Everyone told me I was going to be fine, until I was told I wasn’t going to be. Doctors looked at me like I was a fool for feeling that something was up (except my female GP, thank goodness). So did autism “experts” early in the day when Adam was first diagnosed. Follow your intuition and support it with intelligence. Be it with your autistic child, your personal life, or your very own health — YOU own it. Don’t give your power away to others. Shine, shine, shine and believe in you!
ESTÉE KLAR
TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA
Writer/Curator/Founder of The Autism Acceptance Project. Lecturer on autism & the media, and parenting. Graduate student Critical Disability Studies, York University. I like to write about our journey, musings, attitudes towards autism.
Yes it has been a very difficult year. May 2009 be a new direction and hopes for healings of all kinds
All the best
Bron
Thank you! I am just trying hard to write again and get this work moving. I’m trying to do anything that gets the creative juices flowing again.
For me, artistic pursuits are ways of making sense of many things. Writing is good for that, but when you can’t write, you have to try another medium.
Putting this new website together has helped. It has allowed me to focus on the work we are all doing to make lives for autistic people and ourselves, better.