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Intellectually Disabled Adults and COVID Vaccine Prioritization

Adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities are at greater risk—three times greater than the general population—of COVID-19 complications and/or death.…

COVID, intellectual disability, vaccination

Are Autistic and Intellectually Disabled People Worthwhile Community Members—or Aren’t They?

I have been reading the proposed changes to North Carolina’s Innovations waiver services and supports, which are designed for individuals…

autism, community, disability, inclusion, intellectual disability
Photograph of lilies by Ray Hemachandra

Poem: Favorite Person

Favorite Person The excitement of hello vibrates and shines not with the promise of what’s to come but just for…

poem, poems, poetry, writing
Wayne Dyer

Living on a Rampage of Appreciation—An Interview with Wayne Dyer

A best-selling author for decades, Wayne Dyer was one of the most popular teachers in the self-help, mind/body/spirit, and New Age…

Dr. Wayne Dyer, interview, Wayne Dyer, Wayne Dyer interview
Ray and Nicholas Hemachandra sitting by the Blue Ridge Parkway in North Carolina (photo by Kristi Pfeiffer)

Poem: To have and to hold until death has no part

To have and to hold until death has no part He had a secret. He grabbed you and pulled you…

poem, poems, poet, poetry
Nicholas Hemachandra looking out at Raven Cliff Falls in South Carolina, May 2020

No “Because” but Love—Intellectual Disability, Identity, Representation, and Value

Autism and disability pride movements assert unique cultures and identities. Can intellectually disabled people be more openly and equitably represented…

autism, autism acceptance, autism adulthood, IDD, intellectual disability

Love in the Time of Segregation and Discrimination

I came upon a box of a few dozen random—utterly random—photographs yesterday: family photos in NYC from a half-century before…

blackness, gay marriage, gay men, interracial, LGBTQIA, Love, race

Remembering My Aunt Hattie

Sometime after her sister, my mother, died and before her Alzheimer’s developed to the point she didn’t recognize or know…

alzheimer's, family, Love

Books Published, People Cherished

I am a judge for the Independent Book Publishers Association’s Benjamin Franklin Awards. Perhaps surprisingly, this work predates my years…

Benjamin Franklin Awards, IBPA, Independent Book Publishers Association, publishing, work

Sunday with My Son

These weekend wintry early mornings in which at times I’m feeling a little drawn—hardly inclined to roll out of bed,…

autism, fatherhood, forest, neurodiversity, parenting, pisgah forest, pisgah national forest, waterfall, woods

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I enjoyed a Black Asheville History lesson this week with Miss Sophie Dixon—who shared stories about Elder John Hayes, Stumptown, Shiloh, and the Hillcrest “High” Steppin’ Majorettes & Drum Corps—all at WRES radio station, which is the former home of the NAACP in Asheville and a place rich in history, legacy, memory, love, kindness, and possibility.
"Maybe that's my task: to imagine myself as someone capable of infinite love," said Eric Tran after reading a new poem, a third-person eulogy of himself. "Maybe I am infinitely full of love—or maybe I want to be."
Creature at Biltmore
Poof at the Biltmore Conservatory
Looking up in the Biltmore Conservatory today
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Elliott Moss @elliottmoss and team are at Little Louie’s @littlelouiesavl in West Asheville smoking the good stuff. If you haven’t been, don’t know what you’re waiting for: Wednesday to Sunday (soon to expand) starting at noon. Brisket, meatballs, wings; pierogies and sandwiches; etc.
When I take my son Nicholas to Camp Royall, it’s a tradition to take a pic in front of the sign. But it rained the entire drive from Asheville to Moncure, which is south of Chapel Hill a little past Pittsboro, and he was ready to start camp … and I was ready to start the drive back home—and keep my phone dry. Here’s to a great camp retreat week for everyone!
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