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Just a wife trying to cook and craft her way through life's adventures.
Simple Sundays

Simple Sunday- Autistic Scholars

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“One other important point about appreciation is that true appreciation should result in an understanding that what is different is not necessarily a deficit or problem. Your appreciation of autism should not follow with some kind of frenetic moral obligation to help us fit into society or be just like you.”- Dr. Amy Laurent, Dr. JÂcqûelyn Fede’- Autism Level Up!

“We live in a neurotypical world: a world in which autism is habitually treated as pathology, a world in which autism is marginalized, a world in which we rarely meet people like ourselves, a world in which we must conform to the expectations of the neurotypicals that surround us.  To have even a short break from this neurotypical world, a chance to exist in an autistic space with other autistic people, can be a precious thing – and yet very few autistic people today are part of an autistic community.”- Patrick Dwyer, Autistic Pathways

“46) When people talk about “what causes autism”, they’re usually talking a load of rubbish. There are some very silly theories out there about what causes autism, and some of them are dangerous theories. They’re dangerous because they can trick people into thinking we’re damaged, when we’re not.”- Chris Bonnello, Autistic, Not Weird

“When we subtract from our children’s lives because they aren’t behaving in ways we want them to, this speaks volumes about us as adults and has very little to do with our children. In a world that has become overrun with an unrelenting need for control, compliance and is absolutely obsessed with behaviourism, something has got to give.”-Kristy Forbes, Intune Pathways

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Simple Sundays- Autistic Authors

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I am learning, though, to be kinder to myself. Neurodivergent individuals hear, read and absorb a staggering amount of negativity in their lifetime. We become exceptionally good at taking on this criticism and turning it into our own internal voices.”- Josephine Moon, The Wonderful Thing About Phoenix Rose

“You need to stop caring what people who don’t matter think of you. Be who you are and let everybody else be who they are. Differences are a good thing.”
― Holly Smale, Geek Girl

“Your abilities lie in the places people usually overlook, so you’ve been convinced you don’t have any at all. But you’re smart, and you’re capable, and if people struggle to see that, it’s their problem, not yours.”
― Talia Hibbert, Act Your Age, Eve Brown

“This crusade to fix herself was ending right now. She wasn’t broken. She saw and interacted with the world in a different way, but that was her. She could change her actions, change her words, change her appearance, but she couldn’t change the root of herself. At her core, she would always be autistic. People called it a disorder, but it didn’t feel like one. To her, it was simply the way she was.”
― Helen Hoang, The Kiss Quotient

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Simple Sunday- Autism Acceptance

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“Our identities make us who we are, and all aspects of our identities are important, including (maybe even specifically) our disabilities.”
― Chloé Hayden, Different, Not Less: A Neurodivergent’s Guide to Embracing Your True Self and Finding Your Happily Ever After

“It’s the same for neurodivergent; it’s an umbrella term for anyone who diverges from dominant societal norms; it doesn’t specifically say what our experiences or differences are other than the fact that we simply do diverge. It’s an umbrella term for all the ways we may diverge from the way we think, feel, learn, communicate, behave and function.”
― Sonny Jane Wise, We’re All Neurodiverse: How to Build a Neurodiversity-Affirming Future and Challenge Neuronormativity

“Refusing to perform neurotypicality is a revolutionary act of disability justice. It’s also a radical act of self-love.”
― Devon Price, Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity

“It is so important that the general public and the hiring companies understand this group of people. Many will fall through the cracks due to their “odd” behaviors. Many have so much to contribute if given the chance.”
― Steve Silberman, NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity

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Simple Sunday- Women’s History Month

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“Empathy is the wellspring of creativity.”- Ami Vitale (National Geographic Photographer)

“You deserve the world that’s in your vision, but you’ll have to fight for it every day. Truthfully, you have already been fighting. It probably took a lot for you to understand your identity, and even more if you’ve been able to share it with others. Lean into the fire, fight, and resilience that already lives inside you. I want you to be defiant. If there was ever a time to disobey, this is it. We are a creative, disruptive people who have never accepted silence.”- Raquel Willis (Trans Rights Activist)

“Women don’t have to listen to their inner-critic and hold themselves back; they can unleash themselves and reach their best potential if they put their effort into it. That’s what I want my daughter to do.” – Sarah Thomas (First female NFL football official)

“You know what you can do. You know what you’re capable of. Don’t let anybody get into your head.”- Kim Ng (First female GM of the Big Four Leagues, First woman of Asian descent in the MLB, Highest ranking female executive in baseball.)

One of the criticisms I’ve faced over the years is that I’m not aggressive enough or assertive enough, or maybe somehow, because I’m empathetic, it means I’m weak. I totally rebel against that. I refuse to believe that you cannot be both compassionate and strong.”- Jacinda Ardern (Former New Zealand Prime Minister)

Wordless Wednesdays

Wordy Wednesday- The Truth

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All quotes are from Sir Terry Pratchett’s The Truth. With the recent attacks on free speech and the press, I thought it was time for a re-read. Enjoy and find inspiration to keep on fighting.

“I’m saying, sir, that a lie can run round the world before the truth has got its boots on.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Truth

“There are, it has been said, two types of people in the world. There are those who, when presented with a glass that is exactly half full, say: this glass is half full. And then there are those who say: this glass is half empty. The world belongs, however, to those who can look at the glass and say: What’s up with this glass? Excuse me? Excuse me? This is my glass? I don’t think so. My glass was full! And it was a bigger glass! Who’s been pinching my beer? And at the other end of the bar the world is full of the other type of person, who has a broken glass, or a glass that has been carelessly knocked over (usually by one of the people calling for a larger glass), or who had no glass at all, because he was at the back of the crowd and had failed to catch the barman’s eye.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Truth

“William wondered why he always disliked people who said ‘no offence meant’. Maybe it was because they found it easier to say ‘no offence meant’ than actually refrain from giving offence.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Truth

“No law says you have to like dwarfs and trolls,’ said Goodmountain.
‘Yes, but there ought to be a law against disliking them the way he does.’
‘Ah. Now you’ve drawn me a picture.’
‘Maybe you’ve heard the term “lesser races”?’
‘And now you’ve coloured it in.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Truth

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Simple Sunday- Historical Inspiration

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“The air is the only place free from prejudice.”-Bessie Coleman

“I want history to remember me… not as the first black woman to have made a bid for the presidency of the United States, but as a black woman who lived in the 20th century and who dared to be herself. I want to be remembered as a catalyst for change in America.”-Shirley Chisholm

 “Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty, and it does seem to me that notwithstanding all these social agencies and activities there is not that vigilance which should be exercised in the preservation of our rights.”- Elizabeth Freeman

“…It looked very different from the Statue of Liberty, but what did that matter? What was the good of having the statue without the liberty, the freedom to go where one chose if one was held back by one’s color? No, I preferred the Eiffel Tower, which made no promises.”- Josephine Baker, once she had seen the Eiffel Tower

“The worst thing about that kind of prejudice… is that while you feel hurt and angry and all the rest of it, it feeds you self-doubt. You start thinking, perhaps I am not good enough.”-Nina Simone

Adventures · Crafty · Sewing · Wordless Wednesdays

Wordless Wednesday- Cooking Quilts

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K2 and I went to see the Quilt Expo this year and they had some delightful cooking themed quilts. Enjoy!

This one was made from a photo! Scanned, printed, and then embellished!

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Simple Sunday- Cooking

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“I’m interested in food and sharing my passion with a community of like-minded people. All of the celebrity stuff that comes along with that is just an incidental byproduct of being able to do what I love for a living.”-Alex Guarnaschelli

“Cooking is like painting or writing a song. Just as there are only so many notes or colors, there are only so many flavors – it’s how you combine them that sets you apart.”-Wolfgang Puck

“So many of the recipes that I come up with have a story. I’m a blogger. It flowed very naturally out of me, but I also knew this was a way to set my recipes apart. A, they are always using interesting ingredients but B, there is always a story behind it.”-Aarti Sequeira

“Food is a common denominator for all people.”-Guy Fieri

“Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.”-Ludwig van Beethoven

“If you want to be a home cook, just have fun with it. Pick up a couple cookbooks. You’re gonna make some mistakes; just go in and try it.”-Anne Burrell