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Have you tried to actually talk to him? I can understand feeling frustrated, I would be too, but he could be really struggling with something and getting angry probably isn’t going to help -🌌

I have tried several times to talk with him and try to help him, but he is stubborn. He doesn't want to talk about it.

I know Patton spoke with him, and I believe whatever he said has helped, but I remain to be in the figurative dark about everything.

I feel I have been too harsh on Roman these past few days...i believe he can see my frustration and he is giving me space but he seems very very upset

Maybe he's just upset over the quarentine stuff. I know it's been really hard on me to not be able to be with people I love so I've been extra attached to my family lately, much in the same way that Roman has been. I mean i could be wrong but that's my theory

I suppose that could be a contributor. His brother lives here as well, though, and it does not seem like he is as distraught when Remus is away as he is with me, nor with anyone else in the household. He calls his parents at least two or three times a week as well. 

It has been slightly hard on him not being able to do theater, though. He loves it so much, perhaps he is starting to feel a sense of homesickness for it. 

I’m not sure, but I will attempt to see if this is the issue, and if so, what we can do to fix it. Thank you for your thoughts 

Oh no, it’s really that bad?? Does he know you’ve got a lesson?? -🌌

He knows it’s just....this situation is very frustrating. I was able to get through today’s tutoring sessions with little interruption, thanks to i believe what Patton said to him last night. However when i returned, he was completely covered in a weighted blanket and looked very upset. 

I hate that he feels so bad, but I cannot forego my studies and my commitments for just him. I only wish I knew what was going on so I could actually help him. 

I love Roman immensely, but this is starting to get out of hand. I can’t even have a meeting with my professor without him pining for my attention. 

I am scheduled to start as an online teacher assistant and tutoring next week and I cannot have him all over me during instructional time.

How did your date go with Roman?

It was wonderful. It was very relaxing and both Roman and I enjoyed ourselves very much.

However it did little to ease his clingieness. I could not get him to talk to me about it last night either. I will try again tonight, but I'm not sure how responsive he will be

Our bodies are amazing. The things we can create, the weight we can carry, the love we can hold. Our bodies are amazing.

While we expose bad teachers during this pandemic because parents can actually see what goes on in the classroom, please remember to appreciate the good teachers. A lot of the teachers with online classes have been forced to nearly double their work load. If a teacher seems stressed or unprepared, consider that they had to do a lot on short notice and their school system probably forced the entire faculty to learn half a dozen computer programs within a few weeks. Be patient with teachers. I promise you a lot of them are just stressed and underpaid and have a ridiculous work load. If they aren't emailing you back within an hour or they struggle with the video call or a testing software it isn't because they hate you, they are probably just as frustrated and tired as you are.

Ooo, where are you going for your date with Roman?

A picnic in the park followed by a stop at his favorite ice cream parlor. And when we get home, a marathon of Disney movies we both enjoy, perhaps Hamilton as well, since it is the weekend and we don't have to be up early in the morning.

I do hope this works. Today has been worse than the past two. I could hardly get anything done for myself, let alone help any of the others with their work.

The highest result of education is tolerance.

 Helen Keller

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Find yourself a partner who supports you in all of your ambitions. 

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Autistic Children Are Not A Burden. 

People are intrinsically valuable regardless of their wealth or work. That means you're entitled to a home, healthcare, food, water, etc. simply because you're alive.

Call it socialism if you’d like, but it just goes to show how sorely inhumane capitalism is in comparison.

10 Books to read this Autumn & Halloween🍁🍂🍁

1. Dracula  by Bram Stoker

This start of beautiful season off with something classic and a little scary.

The name of Dracula brings to mind visions of vampires, stakes, garlic, and crucifixes. Yet, when you read the novel, it becomes self-evident how twisted modern vampire fiction now is. The vampires in  this classic story are not meant to inhabit the roles of heroes. Instead you go back a few hundred years when men and women believed truly that the vampire was a real immortal, cursed to quench his undying thirst with a living mortal’s blood. The very idea of a blood drinker should, therefore, inspire the image of a villain and that is what the titular character of this novel is. A villan you can’t help but keep reading about. 

2.  And Then There Were None by  Agatha Christie

Another story that is perfect if you want something that will keep you up at night like it did for me when I read it last year.

There is scarcely any comfort to be found in this book, only an ancient, arcane horror. Ten people receive a mystery letter from someone they don’t know that indicates they should come to a remote island. Why would they go????? After arriving, they try to figure out the connection between all of them while waiting for their mysterious host. After coming across a cute little poem about how ten little indians die, they decide they will wait it out until the next morning when the ferry comes back to take them home. But it will never come! Each guest suddenly dies matching the line from a poem. It really keeps you on the edge of your seat.

3.  THE BONE WITCH BY RIN CHUPECO

A story about a young witch just fits so well with this season, but this story is not about a teenage witch =just flying around on a broom. No it’s far darker than that. When Tea accidentally resurrects her brother from the dead, she learns she is different from the other witches in her family. Her gift for necromancy means that she’s a bone witch, a title that makes her feared and ostracized by her community. But Tea finds solace and guidance with an older, wiser bone witch, who takes Tea and her brother to another land for training.In her new home, Tea puts all her energy into becoming an asha—one who can wield elemental magic. But dark forces are approaching quickly, and in the face of danger, Tea will have to overcome her obstacles…and make a powerful choice.

4. Night Film by Marisha Pessl

This story opens in October on a cool evening with a blood chilling scene, it’s really everything you could hope for on a autumn night.

Night Film opens on a cold, cursed October evening, when Ashley Cordova, a young women full of potential, is found dead in a warehouse. Police rule her death a suicide, but investigative journalist Scott McGrath isn’t so sure. From that inception point, Scott McGrath enters the strange circumstances surrounding Ashley’s life and death, and comes face-to-face with the legacy of her father: the legendary, reclusive cult-horror film director Stanislaus Cordova–a man who hasn’t been seen in public for more than thirty years. For McGrath, another death connected to this seemingly cursed family dynasty seems more than just a coincidence. Though much has been written about Cordova’s dark and unsettling films, very little is known about the man himself. Driven by revenge, curiosity, and a need for the truth, McGrath, with the aid of two strangers, is drawn deeper and deeper into Cordova’s eerie, hypnotic world. The last time he got close to exposing the director, McGrath lost his marriage and his career. This time he might lose even more.

5. Autumn by Ali Smith

Ali Smith’s lauded Seasonal quartet, a series of four novels rooted in a different time of year, kicks off with Autumn there we watch as love is won, love is lost. Hope is hand in hand with hopelessness. The seasons roll round, as they always do.

6. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

I can’t tell you how many times i have read  this beaful story in my life buti wants have it one my list to read at last once a year and i find it fits so well in to the amazing season that is autumn with   The romantic clash between the opinionated Elizabeth and her proud beau, Mr. Darcy, is a splendid performance of civilized sparring

7.I Know Who You Are by Alice Feeney

This story is haunting and it will stay with you after you read it.

It’s dark, twisted and unpredictable until the very last chapter keeping me on the edge of my seat from the very beginning. You are met with the unknown as you meet Aimee Sinclair, an actress who after coming home, she realizes her husband is missing and after that you are sent on a wild ride to find him.

8.Little Women by Louisa May Alcott  

Another classic. I have always found that that reading about a world now gone is so very perfect for autumn, as we watch the leaves we had watch grow turn colors and fly away from us.

Little Women is a beauty told story with each of the sisters seeks out a different form of happiness: Meg wants to marry, Jo wants to be a writer, Beth wants to care for her family, and Amy craves material success. We get to live their world as we following the lives and loves of the four March sisters and their mother as they mature from youth through adolescence and adulthood.

9.Mexican Gothic  by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

If you love gothic horror, this one is for you. It has the same feeling as Jane Eyre but way creepier and set in 1950’s Mexico.

The atmosphere is perfect for the season, a debutante heads to a creepy countryside house, after receiving an ominous letter from her newlywed cousin, and finds the dark secrets that lie within the house and its occupants.

10.The Sun Down Motel by Simone St. James

A suspenseful and eerie mystery told via dual timelines all surrounding a rundown roadside motel and the secrets lurking that captivated a woman so much that she went missing in the 1980’s and now have caught the attention of her niece 35 years later. If you love a good mystery mixed with timeline jumping this a perfect one for you.

Bonus

11.The Year of the Witching by Alexis Henderson

Handmaid’s Tale meets Salem: Born of rebellious feminist resistance by a girl who is branded as cursed because of her mother’s sins and facing the dark powers to make definite and concrete changes at the dystopian, puritanical, secluded society consisted of hypocrisy, ignorance, illogical and unfair laws.

This is another terrifying, fist clenching, soul shivering, mind crushing, heart pounding, forehead sweating, edgy, spooky, bleak, dark journey take you to the dark woods to face the four witches are ready to haunt you in your dreams and place a quite irritating thoughts inside your brains.

Patience

Calmly, I wait.  I listen.  I observe.  I appreciate the time everything takes.  Life’s surprises can create new plans at a heartbeat’s pace.  Noticing the details comes naturally to me.

I take a breath.  Aware of all the subtleties.  I am relaxing into this moment.  Allowing all tension to leave, I look at the puzzle pieces in front of me.

In the stillness, I find clarity.  Piece by piece, step by step, I am gradually manifesting my desired reality.  Patience is a way of life for me.

I have arranged a small date for Roman and I for Friday evening. I do hope that this one on one attention helps and maybe will get him to tell me what’s gotten him so clingy. 

The Power of Now 🧬

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"When times get difficult, view them as opportunities to shape your being. Rocks repeatedly rolled and splashed by water soften at the edges, forming them by these movements. Embrace the change within you, forming to overcome the hardship you face."

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Music for Studying 1/?

1 A.M Study Session 📚 - [lofi hip hop/chill beats]

2 A.M Study Session 📚 - [lofi hip hop/chill beats]

3 A.M Study Session 📚 - [lofi hip hop/chill beats]

Chill Study Beats 📚 ~ Lofi Hip Hop Mix

Lo fi Magic ~ Lofi Hip Hop Mix

3:30 a.m. life is good ~ lofi hip hop / jazzhop / chillhop mix [study/sleep/homework music]

3:30 a.m. alone ~ lofi hip hop / jazzhop / chillhop mix [study/sleep/relax music]

Hello Childhood ~ lofi hip hop mix

a peaceful place. [lofi / jazzhop / chillhop mix]

Autumn Mix ‘20 [Lofi / Jazz Hop / Chillhop]

lakeside retreat. [lofi / jazzhop / chill mix]

Endless Sunday 😌 [Chillhop / instrumental beats]

old songs but it’s lofi remixes -vintage, retro, jazzhop, lounge music

monday morning in heaven ~ lofi hip hop / jazzhop / chillhop mix [study/sleep/homework music]

lofi on my mind ~ lofi hip hop / jazzhop / chillhop mix [study/sleep/homework music]

Little astronaut, big dreams. [ lofi hip hop/chill beats]

lofi hip hop study - lofi hip-hop study beats mix [study/sleep/homework music]

Roman’s strange behavior has continued. Even Remus has noticed and expressed concern, but Roman insists that he is fine. 

I am doing my best to help him since it seems that it is only me that he wants, but it is very hard to get anything done. I fear he has been neglecting his schoolwork as well. I just...can’t get him to talk to me 

Whenever we encounter such a purely evil Outside, we should gather the courage to endorse the Hegelian lesson: in this pure Outside, we should recognize the distilled version of our own essence.

Slavoj Zizek (via nova2yung)