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Tue, 08-07-2007 - 9:28am

Hi, everyone. I'm a mom to a 6-year-old with multiple special needs and way back when, I used to be the CL of the hypotonia board.

Anyway, I’ve been working on a project and I wanted to show you in case it’s something that would be of benefit to any of you. (Thank you, Paula, for giving me the ok to post this. And hello to my Nee Nee - I just saw your name on here!:))

I’ve been working on putting together a site for the artistic expression of parents of children with special needs. (Any type of special needs.) It includes areas for essays, photography, poetry and artwork.

There’s a page in there about why I made the site and my feelings in general about artistic expression so I won’t go on at length here, but, in a nutshell, I think artistic expression can be beautiful, illuminating, and/or transformative. I think that applies to those doing the creating and those who view those creations. And, given that I’m a parent to a child with special needs, that was the area I really wanted to explore artistically.

Now, this site doesn’t contain therapy resources, IEP information, or general support – those are all very important things but nothing nearly that helpful can be found on my site – lol. It can’t replace boards like this one. I think it has it’s own value though as a place of exploration and artistic expression.

Whether you wish to contribute your own work or not, please drop by and read and look whenever you want to. I hope you visit often. And feel free to share the link with any other board or group (irl or virtual). Also free to share the link with people who don’t have kids with special needs – I think sharing between people who don’t have a common experience sometimes makes the world a little smaller, you know?

And everyone (whether contributors or not, whether special needs parents or not) are welcome to comment on the individual pieces there. (I think you need to be a member of typepad to comment but there’s no cost for that – there’s no cost at all for this site except what I pay to have it up and running.)

And, finally, if you’re moved to submit something of your own, please do!!!

http://ourkids.typepad.com/

Thanks for taking a look!

Mya-Lisa, mom to Tessa and Jack
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Tue, 08-07-2007 - 9:47am

Wow! What a fabulous concept/idea; bloody brilliant!! I loved the site and have some wriring I might like to contribute. But need to use the other pc (on a mac right now, I'll send you the poem later:)

Dee

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Tue, 08-07-2007 - 10:11am

Thank you so much for your kind words, Dee.:)

And I very much look forward to receiving your poetry!!

Mya-Lisa, mom to Tessa and Jack
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Tue, 08-07-2007 - 11:21am

Mya this is incredible. I've done some writing too, along with some abstract multimedia pieces. (My version of how my autie daughter's brain works.) Hmmm...not sure if I'm ready to share yet, but your site is so welcoming, I just might be willing to contribute too.

Thank you for sharing. I've bookmarked this page and will return to it often.

Amy

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Tue, 08-07-2007 - 11:33am

Mya-Lisa,


Thank you for creating this site.

-Paula

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Tue, 08-07-2007 - 11:46am

M-L!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OH I am soooo glad you posted this here!

OK all, Mya-Lisa is one of my dear dear dear friends (even can say IRL!) and her site is fabulous! Plan on linking it to APOV as well (right Candes dahling).

M-L, there are tons of authors and poets here on this board. I hope they do contribute artistic type stuff to you! BUT girls don't forget to co-submit to APOV (my lame attempt at tagging along to get content)

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Tue, 08-07-2007 - 12:43pm

WOW! That's great!

I especially love the essays......we didn't have a great morning here so I was of course bawling my eyes out while reading them...:)

thanks so much for all of your hard work. I'll definatley let people know about it.

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Tue, 08-07-2007 - 2:50pm

Um...what's APOV?

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Tue, 08-07-2007 - 3:27pm

How can you not know? What have we done Candes, how can she not know?

Another Point of View....

here try this www.asdrendrewolf.org

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Tue, 08-07-2007 - 3:46pm

Ah, nope I remember now....my bad. Do you want me to send said poems to you as well then?

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Tue, 08-07-2007 - 5:48pm

M-L,


Awesome site! I've been showing it off to our other affiliates for past few days, and they love it. Going to be doing an article on

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