alex.r.hudson

Roses from Miroola to Canberra with love for the celebration of Fi & Stephen.
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Image description: An image of the dried, colourful rose petals from Marg and Wazza's garden. I'm holding the cone of sweetly scented maroon, purple and yellow petals that were thrown over Fi and Stephen as they walked down the aisle after the ceremony.

Grey is my new favourite colour.
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Image description: An image of the completely grey sky and leafy jungle of my new backyard. Waking up to rain for the first time in over a month is simply wonderful. Rain on a tin roof has always comforted me. I wish I could stay in bed and listen to it all day.

If you need me, too bad. I'm exploring the unicorniverse until further notice.
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Image description: An image of myself in mirror wearing my epically awesome discount universe mystical mini. It is a pink and purple sequin unicorn surrounded by silver and gold sequin beams. I am holding my "crip life" phone, smiling, with head turned kinda downards to fit into the frame. **I have reached peak unicorn.

Wattle ya reckon about my latest crip art piece? .
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Image description: A very rough drawing I did of a wattle branch in black pen.

Saying good-bye to our small slice of tropical paradise in the deep-house jungle.
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Image description: An image of the green palms and trees in our lush as backyard. They are set against a beautiful and vibrant blue sky.

Like I need to be told.
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Image description: an image of myself, specifically my ankle and foot in the sock my brother in law gave me for Christmas. They're white with a pretty little pink flower and have "take no shit" written on them. Also pictured are Oregon steeze joggers.

Feeling the blues today. .
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Image description: An image of Dolphins, the sky is a beautiful bright blue, blending into the navy blue ocean, with waves breaking. The sandy, empty beach and grassy bushland is pictured in the bottom of the frame.

Having a dip where only dolphins can. .
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Image description: A selfie of myself and my little green dolphin friend at Dolphins. My hair is that awesome post-swim style. The ocean and clear blue sky is pictured in the background.

Today I acknowledge the 26th of January as the day that began the decimation of the world's oldest culture and people.
I acknowledge the trauma still exists and is ingrained into our society.

I acknowledge that this day is nothing to celebrate, but rather something we have to own as a shameful part of our story.

Changing the date is a small step in the direction of true reconciliation of this country, but it is a necessary one.
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Image description: An image of the indigenous flag with black text written around the yellow centre that says "ALWAYS WAS ALWAYS WILL BE ABORIGINAL LAND." artist unknown.

Buckle up, it's going to be a bumpy ride. Or not, I'm not sure yet.

After the longest process, simply because I took my sweet time I am now an NDIS participant.
And as of yesterday I made a booking for my first ever support worker to come help me do things on Friday.
Honesty I'm not even sure how to navigate this new territory, other than to just say fuck it and just see how we go.
I think I am realising things are probably just going to be easier and less of a process. It is probably going to open my world right up, or has the potential to. Or it could be so normal and boring that, that in itself baffles me.

Its tricky business, I feel weird because I also work in this space, and am a part of the disabled community but I am about experience this stuff from the otherside.
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Image description: an image of myself, buckled up in my brother's lush as Luxy. It's an oldie pic, I have faded pastel pink hair.

I call this one "Crimson wave." .
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Image description: A crip art piece I did (I think) circa 2017. It's a water colour of lines of pink, purple and darker pink in the motion of the ocean. The waves are set against a backdrop of a wavy blue sky, also made up of lines of different shades of blue. In the top left corner is a small, round orange sun.

I am hitting the hay early on this fine Sunday so I can get after it on Monday 'cause I'm a hustler. .
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Image description: A clip of @holly_tapp and I at @citizenx_lbe's work a few moons back. Nath is serving a customer as Holly and I hassle, I mean hustle.