Bringing the inside out.

you are just awesome!! You inspire me soooo much. Thank you so much for showing us the inside and ouside. You are truly an amazing woman!! Have a great night!!

This is amazing. So gorgeous and very inspiring! The best part is that it's raw and real. And that's a beautiful thing :)

I really like this Ali!!! :) Thanks for the continual inspiration.

In awe again.

I wish my playing looked like that!! it's great - as ever - Ali!!

Hi.
I just wanted to say thank you for your posting baout the article on the research linking vaccinations with autism, that my freind Nikki forwarded to me. My daughter is now seven and has never been vaccinated. It has been difficult making this decision when there is so much social pressure to do so... particularly with a child with allergies and the like. There is a stigma against parents who do not immunize, as if it is abusive. A friend decided to get her son immunized when he was around four. She felt insulted with how the nurses treated her. Repeatedly I revisited the issue, when my daughter hit differnt age markers. Repeatedly I decided against it. My midwife lent me many books on the subject, when I was pregnant. Each time I came to visit the issue I thought baout injecting mercury, antifreeze, and monkey liver into my daughter. I just could not do it, regardless of what anyone else had to say or the looks I get.
Would you be upset about the issue if your child was not autistic? It is possible that you could be. I know I am, and my daughter is neither autistic or ADHD/ADD.
I hope that one day you will find peace knowing that you did what you thought was right, and are not guilty for the outcome. Your choice to immunize might not have altered the outcome. That we will never know. What I do know, by how charged you are by this issue, is that you care... and that is what is important. I learned from my friend Linda (who was deaf an excelled nonetheless) while I was in University that all people regardless of life challanges can make the world a better place - impacting the world for the better. It is still possible for your child too. Sometimes the dreams can not beheld until after they happen.
Be Well.
In Spirit, Kim
P.S. I am sending the link to freinds of mine that have not had children yet. Maybe they can make a more educated decision than most.

Rad Ali, just rad! sometimes girl I swear the part I love best about you is that you are so open and honest and you channel my thoughts. I was having some thoughts like that tonight- I've been ina rut and I feel this brwing in me to just be me on my pages. I need to let some art out- some way to delve inside and explore more. Right on girl, right on.

Wow....absolutely inspiring!

Thanks so much for not ceasing to amaze me with inspiration. I am going to "play" my frickin butt off tomorrow night! Love this!

I love that you embrace your own imperfection - that you aren't afraid of risk of being yourself...in so many ways such a wonderful inspiration!
Thanks --btw love the flowers... what are those? how did you do that?

That's all about my life and art too,Ali :)
your page - which you should include in a personnal art journal - is absolutely pure eye candy!
Céline (from the PLAY project :D )

WOW that is just amazing Ali....
and an inside and out class with you and Donna...when and where? LOL!! That would be just WOW!!!

Hi Ali, I love this lo...love how art journalling really allows the story to unfold more slowly, using layering as the medium. The layering possibilities seem endless in art journalling. The story is not right on the surface, as it tends to be in scrapbooking...the layering allows the story to settle under the surface, and below that and so on....until you decide, that's it I have uncovered the story. and then you step back and see another side to the lo, the real key to the page. the real message. the real unveiling, the gift. the discovery. I just love the process of unfolding through art and journalling. It's a kind of therapy! Thanks for turning us onto this art journalling style...Tracy

Absolutely fab, Ali! Love it, love the passion behind it!

This blows me away, Ali! Holy cow! Everything you touch turns to gold.

You are deep.

Love it. This post really struck a chord with me today. While I'm reading about "The Miracle of Mindfulness", you're living it! Thanks for sharing your beautiful illustration.

you think more than the surface thoughts. if that makes you deep...then that's pretty cool. Love how you are exploring and expanding your boundaries. way cool :)

Beautiful thoughts and page, A.
But I have to say that I know you well enough to say this... I must disspell the myth that you are always deep. LOL - the Ali I know can be anything but deep at times. ;)

I just had to laugh at the "freakin play!" text on the layout! That definitely sounds like the words that go on in my head!