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From Tolerance to Acceptance…. getting through the rough parts
EVERYTHING WORKS OUT IN THE END. IF IT HASN’T WORKED OUT YET, THEN IT’S NOT THE END…. Tracy McMillan It takes time… lots of time. It takes time to accept the fact that food has to be shared, that the...
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Effortless Inclusion……it could be. it should be.
Imagine this. A place where inclusion just happens. I imagine it can easily be this way in elementary school classrooms, where children have not yet learned to judge those with differences. That...
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Happy New Year! Reflections on three years together
The snow is falling softly at midnight and outside it is just stunning with the porch light reflecting on the white blanket covering our rolling hills. Ray is making his way up the hill to his house...
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We need to talk about staff. Be careful what you wish for!
BINGO! Brent won a divided dinner plate… (his preferred way to set up his meals) It was a great day last Wednesday, our weekly get-together with friends day. It was a Hang Out Winter Wednesday (‘hang...
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Springtime Firsts
First cookout tonight. First time eating dinner outside, first deviled eggs from our chickens. First bonfire, first roasting of marshmallows, first toad eating the insects at the porch light. First...
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The Pursuit of Happiness: Juniper Hill Style
Ray was gone for three hours in the adjacent woods one afternoon this week. Three hours! I was just about to go looking for him when he came trudging Ray’s pond in bloom, 2013 back in rubber boots,...
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Autism and the Food Police… The right to eat too many doughnuts (or cream...
Oh MAN! Someone just broke open the new box of cream puffs that were defrosting for dessert and ate 10 of them! And now there are 5 more of us who are going to have to split the remaining 15…...
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Pumpkin time at Juniper Hill Farms!
We are having some gloriously sunny early fall days … Check out our ‘Feeling like Fall’ video!
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Autism Celebrations, Acceptance, and Community Living
‘There are new rules and guidelines for Home and Community Based Services being drafted that will dictate what type of living and working situations Medicaid dollars will fund for people with...
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From housing model to home: five years later.
Through the grove beside the pasture, a well-worn path now leads down the hill to Home and another worn footpath, now the shortcut to Ray, Pete and Brent’s house In the summer of 2010, we painted the...
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