Resilience
I want to be so grounded in who I am that I can cooperate with whatever comes my way. I want to be able to be knocked over like this Tweety Bird Bop Bag and bounce back up singing. I’m feeling sorry...
View ArticleIn and ex clusion
I wish there was a guide, a handbook, a Miss Manners for reunion. Some thing to refer to when everything is upside down. I wish I had the presence of mind to realize no means yes and what we say about...
View ArticleUs~ability
When my DD declares that I am the source of her troubles, I frequently react. It refutes my beliefs and understanding of myself as a “good” person. I struggle to find a new balance. What is this power...
View ArticleBio/Adopto interface?
Back on May 16 a blog conversation got started that I didn’t find out about until now. By the time I discovered it, it had been closed. And I really wanted to see where it might go, so I’m hopefully...
View ArticleBright Side of the Road
Although the statement “Turn that frown upside down” always repulsed me, I think it described my plan. From the start of our reunion twenty years ago, I thought that somehow I could learn to be patient...
View ArticleUnconditional Love, what’s that?
It’s been brought up on forums I’ve visited by both adoptees and first mothers. As Tupac Shakur said, (What y’all want?) Unconditional Love (no doubt) Talking bout the stuff that don’t wear off where...
View Articleshaken and stirred
My DD took offense at an impersonal pronoun in my last post. I screwed up. I was tired when I read her comment and should have left it alone. But I was going to be offline for at least five days and...
View ArticleI’ve got to pay attention now
The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up. ~ Paul Valery Round and round and round we go. DD introduced me to blogging about adoption in 2006, a safe place to explore myself and...
View Articleanother turn
This post is an attempt to have a conversation I missed yesterday, the third day of my visit to my youngest. We were getting a little edgy with our familiarity. Ezzie tossed out a saucy little comment...
View ArticleSo Shine the Light
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAuBQCEgwgc RIP Levon Helm. The Light is stronger than the darkness. My intolerance and irritation are the darkness. They are ephemeral. I don’t have to give over to...
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