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  • I’m Fine

    I’m Fine

    Survival Tips for Unprecedented Times. Making time for things that regulate your nervous system.

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  • Seeing Time ⏳

    Seeing Time ⏳

    As someone with time blindness I can very easily sink time into something without realizing. This year I’m experimenting with spreadsheets and time charts as tools to visualize time. Here is how 2025 has been looking (as of March 24.) January I had a lot of loops to close in January and it felt like […]

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  • Bloom Where You’re Planted

    Bloom Where You’re Planted

    Documenting the process of creating a sculpture from a dead cherry tree.

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    This month I’m doing test prints for The Neuro Nest… a new project (and zine!) about self regulation through art.

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  • Learning a Second Language as a Neurodivergent Student (Child or Adult!)

    Learning a Second Language as a Neurodivergent Student (Child or Adult!)

    If you’re autistic or ADHD and you’ve struggled with learning a foreign language you are not alone! The typical class structures are not made for our brains.

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  • Home Ed. Rhythms

    Home Ed. Rhythms

    I’ve spent a lot of creative energy on a home education rhythm that provides freedom within structure. Instead of suppressing neurodivergent instincts to move, to stim, to dance, to echo, to hyperfocus… What if we really listened to our own capacities? What if we trusted our kids more?

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  • Home Brew Home Education

    Home Brew Home Education

    A record of the books and resources we are using for home education. Everything from science and reading to geography and languages.

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  • “LIFE IS NOT ABOUT READING OUT A BLUEPRINT, IT’S ABOUT CREATING FLEXIBLE RULES AND RESOURCES FROM WHICH DIVERSE FORMS MIGHT EMERGE.” Philip Ball, How Life Really Works via Austin Kleon

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  • This seems like another potential language for whole to part thinking (gestalt cognitive processing): Paul Jepson and Cain Blythe wrote in “Rewilding: The Radical New Science of Ecological Recovery,” rewilding pays attention “to the emergent properties of interactions between ‘things’ in ecosystems … a move from linear to systems thinking.” Rewilding: The Radical New Science of […]

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    Continued reading indicated this area of research may have originated with Dr. Barry Prizant and then abandoned by his peers (along with Gestalt Language Processing.) Here is an early study of his (bear in mind this was written a long time ago and is more deficit based than his current work.) PDF (Source)

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