Somewhere Between
Last night my husband and I had some time in the evening, so we watched Somewhere Between, a documentary about teenagers adopted from China that he had downloaded some time before. I have known of this documentary for months—and had always planned to see it—but I just wasn’t in a real hurry. I think it was the title. Both the words “Somewhere” and “Between”...
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“White is better”
A few weeks ago Grace took a shower.
As it’s winter and the air is dry, she asked if she could put on some lotion. I told her she could.
A few minutes later I went to check on her. “Look Mom,” she said, pointing to her belly where she had rubbed the lotion, “my skin is whiter now.”
I looked dubiously at her belly. “If you say so,” I said. “But, why do you...
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I believe joy springs from loss
Here’s one in honor of National Adoption Month:
I believe joy springs from loss.
I don’t mean consolation-prize joy or let’s-look-on-the-bright-side joy. I mean genuine joy that springs from the same and very soil our losses are buried in; authentic joy that simply would not have happened if loss had not happened first.
And adoption might be the clearest...
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Mo Yan
I read in China Daily yesterday that the Chinese write Mo Yan had won the Nobel Prize for literature. I was pleased. The Chinese have a lengthy artistic and literary tradition that we in the West have been slow to appreciate. And the Chinese long for world approval by Olympic committees and Nobel committees and such. I was happy for them.
I first came across Mo Yan a few...
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Victory at the Dentist
I know I haven’t been blogging lately. I’ve been at the dentist. Three kids and unfortunately, each with more than one cavity, means several visits to our local dental association. So I’m posting an email I sent out to friends and family last year on the occasion of our first visit…
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