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It’s my blog Anniversary so I’m going to celebrate by praising you……….

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Today my blog turns one!

Which means, you’ve all been putting up with my intrusion into the reams of WordPress and muddling through with my mix of words, thoughts and opinions for one whole year.

Dear, kind, patient you.

So today, instead of celebrating me, I’m going to celebrate you.

That’s right you!

Starting with a big and heart-felt hurrah for the first people to ever follow my blog;

http://fivereflections.wordpresss.com

http://mesayah.wordpress.com

http://catastraspie.wordpress.com

http://truelovejunkie.wordpress.com

http://myraysoflight.wordpress.com

http://creativeworksbyamy.wordpress.com

http://aslankanshaw.wordpress.com

http://thespiderframmanager.wordpress.com

http://silverpoetry.worpress.com

http://emcmemoir.worpress.com

And last, but by no means certainly not least, the amazing Sharmishtha Basu at http://coloursandwordswaltz.wordpress.com and Missus Tribble at http://rosewinelover.wordpress.com.

To these lovely bloggers, whose early comments let me know that I wasn’t just lost and alone, floating aimlessly adrift in a sea of blogs, but instead being read and understood, I say thank you.

I’d also like to propose a big  birthday toast to the many wonderful bloggers whose words I’ve been following regularly since day dot for my weekly dose of inspiration. So here they are;

http://dpwoman.wordpress.com

http://arhythmrunsthroughit.wordpress.com

http://midnighthues.wordpress.com

http://supertuksmama.wordpress.com

http://kiramoorescloset.wordpress.com

http://soumyav.wordpress.com

http://mandysmutterings.wordpress.com

http://paulaacton.wordpress.com

http://mafiahairdresser.wordpress.com

http://justanothermanicmommy.wordpress.com

http://girlwithpen1118.wordpress.com

http://violetsdiary.wordpress.com

http://butimbeautiful.wordpress.com

http://momwithhearingloss.wordpress.com

http://unispiredrevolution.wordpress.com

http://pendryw.wordpress.com

http://thoughtsfromtheoutdoors.wordpress.com

http://boomiebol.wordpress.com

http://carlarenee45.wordpress.com

Some of these bloggers are poets, some deep thinkers, some are fellow mother’s embarking on their own journey’s but all of them, without doubt, have that happy knack for transforming their observational skills into wonderfully insightful and at times humorous blogs.

Speaking of talented bloggers, I’d also like to give a special shout out to those bloggers, whose moments of brilliance I’ve only discovered more recently.

http://shinnypebbles.wordpress.com

http://sharingmemyselfandi.wordpress.com

http://postcardsfromtheedgeofthespectrum.wordpress.com

http://selasiebulmo.wordpress.com

http://hopethehappyhugger.wordpress.com

http://lovingmartians.com

http://silentlyheardonce.wordpress.com

http://moonbeammcqueen.wordpress.com

http://deknarf.wordpress.com

http://dragoneystory.wordpress.com

http://kattermonran.wordpress.com

http://anautismdad.wordpress.com

http://justspokenthoughts.wordpress.com

http://stuffitellmysister.wordpress.com

http://creativeliz.wordpress.com

http://didiearnasmile.wordpress.com

http://coffeepoweredmom.wordpress.com

http://amoonfull.wordpress.com

http://myaspiefiles4444.wordpress.com

http://ladylovelyblogger.wordpress.com

http://mindretrofit7.wordpress.com/

http://ktjane69.wordpress.com

http://aspermums.wordpress.com

http://busymindthinking.com

http://stillwaterflyfishing.wordpress.com

http://insightspace.wordpress.com

http://dragnongirl0.wordpress.com

If you haven’t checked out any of these brilliant blog sites I would encourage you to.

Yes I know, I’m asking a lot of you and I am sorry that this list of amazing bloggers is so long but hey, it’s my party,  so I figure I may as well take this chance to praise who I want too.

And of course last but not least, I’d like to say a big thank you to WordPress for hosting me.

Cheers and happy blogging to you all.

Freshly Pressed

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Would you like to know how to write a blog article worthy of being Freshly Pressed on Word Press?

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Well here’s a little secret, so would I.  So I’ve done a little bit of research and apparently getting the Golden Nod all starts with receiving an e-mail  in your in box, telling you that your words of wisdom have been blessed by the Gods at Freshly Pressed.

Here’s a list of articles written by those who have been so blessed, detailing  what they did  and how it all happened for them.

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¡Frescamente espichada! Mejor dicho, Freshly Pressed! (vocabat.com)

Painting on the Street (sketchesandjottings.wordpress.com)

Badly Messed? or Freshly Pressed? (tryingtowriteit.com)

Coming Out as a Blogger (via Freshly Pressed) (ridingbitchblog.com)

Journey into Awesome Has Been Featured on Freshly Pressed! (journeyintoawesome.wordpress.com)

Starve a Cold, Feed a Freshly Pressed Fever (lornasvoice.com)

The Night I Lost My Virginity (mancakestheblog.wordpress.com)

A Question of Pressing Importance (theoutliercollective.wordpress.com)

In the mean time, if you have any tips, resources or insider knowledge on how exactly to achieve this much coveted blogging feat, please feel free to share your secrets to success by letting us all know how to do it.

Falling Into the Words of Others……. The Benefits of Reading Blogs

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Black pearl and its shell

Sometime people ask me why I bother with blogging. After all they reason, “Isn’t caring for your son a full-time job in and of itself?  What with all the battles you go through just trying to get your son’s rights to have his abilities recognized and taken seriously by others, why on earth do you want to write about Autism? How do you even have the energy  to  write about anything?”

I must admit that some days, when the fights been particularly long and hard, and the shawl of defeat hangs itself across my shoulders like some desperately unwanted shroud that marks me out as a person who feels as shatteringly misunderstood and out-of-place in this world as the missing puzzle piece that has ironically become the universal symbol for Autism, I wonder why I bother blogging too.

But then I read the words of others and they enrich me in ways that help me pull myself back together and enable me to once again  begin to view life from a broader perspective.

A perspective that helps me replace my temporary and insular micro filter  of defeat  and instead enables me to attach a wider lens that lets me know that I am indeed part of a greater whole.

A lens that is in fact so wide that it incorporates all of the issues that are facing so many different people from more walks of life than there are colors in the rainbow.

Reading the words of others reminds me that life is like a pearl.

An organic composition that builds upon itself,

Layer by layer,

Feeding on past irritations,

Forming silently within the enclosed darkness,

That cements it into place.

And that it is only when the shell is opened up and those layers of irritation are revealed, that the pearl itself becomes transformed by the eyes of others, into a thing of beauty.

Blogging I think works in the same way. So regardless of whether or not the opening up of our shells brings either tears or joy, the mere act of making the effort to reveal ourselves, our lives and our stories, to the world, is an  achievement all in itself.

For some I know the process of blogging, of paring oneself back to bare bones to see who and what they are, of bring their true selves to the surface, is a painful one. For others it can be cathartic, light-hearted or even whimsical, but always, always without fail, regardless of what the topic may be or how it is presented, there are always pearls of wisdom to be found within the words of others.

Sometimes, I admit, I don’t find the pares straight away.

Sometimes it takes an event occurring within my own life to shake me and wake up to the memory of reading another’s words about a similar situation before I can understand the points I’d missed.

It is in these moments of missed recognition that I will go back and search through Word Press until I find the post I’m looking for. Often along the way I will find many, many more posts dealing with the same issues that I had previously and erroneously thought were not mine to deal with.

The more posts I read, the more pearls of wisdom I gather and the greater my own levels of awareness, understanding and compassion grows.

Some of your posts make me cry. Some make me smile. Others make my head nod up and down while reading along with the unspoken acknowledgment of a shared truth. Still others make me shake my head in exasperation.

Yet I have learned that regardless of whether or not I agree or disagree with a post, or whether it makes me laugh or cry, there is always some element of experience or knowledge that takes me out of myself, out of my life with Autism and expands my world view.

You make me aware that although all of our personal truths may indeed be different, they are all indeed truths and should be respected as such.

So I bear in mind, as I am reading your posts, that some of you may be speaking of truths that I have yet to learn and some of you may be speaking of personal truths that may never be my own. Just as my personal truths may never be yours to experience in real-time.

Yet regardless I appreciate the privilege of seeing so many different people, each living different lives, in so many different cities, with as many different faces,  telling their silent truths with words all across the globe.

Indeed this world that we all inhabit, our globe, is shaped like a pearl.

This is what makes me think now that wisdom can be found not only by looking deeply into the parts of us that hurt us the most, but  in the very act of opening up our shells and letting ourselves be exposed to the light cast by the minds of others.

For sometimes, it is only when being viewed through the words of others, that our own personal truths, our own pearls of wisdom, become finally apparent, even to ourselves.

This is why I love reading and falling into the words of others.

So thank you to each and every blogger whose words have allowed me to gain a new perspective and glimpse those pearls earned from your own hard-won wisdom.

 

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Adding a Share Link to Tumblr

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Forgive me WordPress, for I have sinned.
I have wantonly wandered into the world of multidimensional blogging and am now confessing to the transgression of believing in the benevolence and the wisdom of  simultaneously engaging in more than just one cyber realm.
Please forgive me for my wordy trespasses as I attempt to combine both realms seamlessly.
Each with the other.
So as I  now say a big hello to the crew at Tumblr, I promise  all of you at WP that I shall continue on with you.
If for no other reason than to feed the deep seeded addiction  for reading wonderful blogs that  you  bestowed upon me from the very beginning.
Okay….. here we go…… Deep breath…….. pressing send to see if this link thingy is working………

Blog 2012 The Year in Review

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The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog.

Here’s an excerpt:

4,329 films were submitted to the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. This blog had 16,000 views in 2012. If each view were a film, this blog would power 4 Film Festivals

Well that’s good to know. Personally I’m still  both amazed and thankful that anyone has taken the time to read my posts.

I really didn’t think, when I started blogging in April, that I’d  ever have any followers, let alone 600.

I guess I owe this to a mix of  posts on parenting a son with Autism,  alongside a liberal sprinkling of  poetry on autism, philosophy and photography.

So to those of you who are new to my blog, welcome and thank you so very much for taking the time to read this post.

I won’t bore you with an entire review but here are a few links to some of the posts that I’m most fond of:

Autism and parenting specific writing:

http://seventhvoice.wordpress.com/2012/05/28/parents-of-the-past/

http://seventhvoice.wordpress.com/2012/04/27/this-waking-life-or-the-ocean-of-autism/

http://seventhvoice.wordpress.com/2012/04/16/shouting-into-the-void/

(also known as Autism the Lost Generations)

Poetry about my son:

http://seventhvoice.wordpress.com/2012/06/20/the-human-spectrum/

http://seventhvoice.wordpress.com/2012/06/10/breathing-in-a-rainbow/

http://seventhvoice.wordpress.com/2012/05/08/i-know-i-reach-you/

http://seventhvoice.wordpress.com/2012/05/02/the-philosophy-of-shaving/

Philosophy:

http://seventhvoice.wordpress.com/2012/05/15/ignorance-or-arrogance-altruism-or-survival-of-the-fittest/

Once again thank you all so much for taking the time to read, comment or like any part of my blog.

Cheers and Happy New Year = ) Seventh x

 

Publishing A Novel on WordPress…..

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I’m considering publishing the novel I’ve been working away at here on WordPress.

The question is of course; Is this a good idea?

What are the benefits and pitfalls of publishing an original work so openly?

I’ve read a few good blogs bestowing both the joys and the sorrows of engaging in on-line open publishing but as yet none have come right out and said, one way or the other, whether or not it’s worth doing.

On the up side, I suppose, there’s always the off-chance that someone will read it and enjoy it. That’s more than I can say for my other 3 novels, which remain to this day, securely secluded in the bottom of my draw.

On the down side, there’s the rather strong possibility that someone will read it, decide that  it’s absolute rubbish and tell me so.

Then of course, there’s the whole issue of copyright.

As we all know, nothing is considered either sacred nor secure, once published on the Internet.

Then again, issues of copyright would really only come into play if one really feels their work has a snowball’s chance in Hell of being published any other way.

In my case I’m so far from being convinced that my words are worth stealing it’s not that much of an issue for me.

So what are the issues?

I guess it’s more the idea that someone could adapt (notice I avoided the word steal)  my topic / plot line and turn it into something really good. Without me.

Or is that just another one of those silly little fears that everyone has but very few are unfortunate enough to experience?

Have any of you ever published a novel on-line?

If so what would you recommend?

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cut,Copy and Paste

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Those who can’t create…….

Cut,

Copy

&

Paste

Symbol for copy & paste problem on the English...

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Blog Gratitude 10,000 Views and Rising

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Wow,  10,000 views and 500 followers in 4  short months. How lucky am I? I thought it would take me years to reach this mark.

I am simply amazed by the level of kindness, sincerity and support that I have found in the expressions of my fellow word lovers within the blogging community.

I so wish I’d began blogging when my children were all younger.

Perhaps then the solitude of having a special needs child in a rural community wouldn’t have bitten me quite as harshly as at times it has.

But what ever the reason, I’ve come to blogging later in life, and at a time when I can fully express how incredibly grateful I am to now be sharing in the joy of reading your blogs, reflecting on your wisdom and gaining new insights into life.

Many of you make me laugh and always you offer me new ways to view the world,  and occasionally you touch my heart so deeply that I cry.

More than anything though, blogging makes me smile.

Your words lighten my days and  help me through the difficult nights.

So I say thank you all so much  for the smiles and for sharing your worlds with me through your poetry, your words, your photography and your stories and I thank you all equally as much for being generous enough to take the time to read  and share in my poetry, my words and my own story.

In my experience, the words of Oscar Wilde definitely ring true.

So thank you….. You…. Yes…. You…. The amazing person who is right this very minute taking the time to  read this post……

Thank you!

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I Love Blogging Outstanding Blogger Award and One Lovely Blog Award……

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I am honored and humbled to have been awarded the “Outstanding Blogger Award”  by Carla -Renee at http://carlarenee45.wordpress.com/2012/06/11/a-special-award-for-blogs-i-admire/#comment-1979. For those of you who haven’t yet  had the joy of checking out her blog I urge you to pop on over and have a read.

In Caral-Renee’s words, the Outstanding Blogger Award is given to those who show intellect and a sense of confidence in the subject for which they are blogging about WITHOUT going way over the heads of those us who need things said in layman’s terms. I love the eloquence a blogger uses when sharing personal experiences. The passion, the rawness. Without restraint.

The rules for accepting this award are to nominate 5 others to receive it and add one important piece of information they feel is important to us on their post.

My five nominee’s for this award for their amazing writing and insights into life are:

http://melodylowes.com/ For her words.

http://boomiebol.wordpress.com/ For her humanity.

http://readncook.wordpress.com/ For her mix of humor, honesty and recipes.

http://mindretrofit7.wordpress.com/ For her amazing poetry.

http://soumyav.wordpress.com/ For her brilliance, warmth and humanity.

Speaking of the wonderful Soumyav I also have to thank her so much for sharing with me  the “OneLovely Blog Award”.

Somyav was one of the first bloggers I had the joy of following. She constantly creates beautiful posts that  are both eloquent and thought provoking. Thank you so much Soumyav for you support.

I would like to pass on this award to:

The forgotten Autistic at http://anallegedautistic.wordpress.com/ whose blogs, especially the one on falling love,  shed new light on the her understanding of the world.

The amazing Jess at http://adiaryofamom.wordpress.com/ for being a constant source of inspiration to many parents of children with special needs.

The rules for accepting these awards are to pass them on to others who inspire you or touch you with their posts.

I thank you so much for taking the time to read this post as I inch just that little bit closer (almost 10,000 views) to my goal of sharing the many positive experiences and understandings that life with my beautiful children, Autism and the reality that we all live in bring. = )

I Feel Like An Aspie Cat (Cat With Asperger’s Syndrome)

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Why do I feel like an Aspie Cat? Well it’s quite simple, or rather complex, depending on you understanding of computers, WordPress and blogging.

Please note that for me this means the answer must be quiet simple, as I have no grasp what so ever of the complexities of either amalgamating, programming or running data scripts.

So in Aspie Cat terms, my WordPress reader thingy isn’t working. This distresses me deeply.  I keep swatting at the like button on all the wonderful posts that I so enjoy reading, but the like icon refuses to stay to blue.

So I swat and sigh and clean  (do the dishes) instead. Then pop my head back up for another try.

But alas…. it’s just not working……  so I’ll just go off now and play with my mouse for a while…..

Or maybe  I’ll try and locate that lost ball of wool…..

Apparently it’s not the only thing with a thread loose…….

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