Since everyone is so sad, should I just not adopt?
I can’t have children and have never wanted to have my own children. I have always wanted to save a child from a bad country where they would not have a good life. Why is that so bad? Would the people...
View ArticleAnd why not suicide?
Ben Harper, in Fly One Time, sings: Inevitability It’s pounding at my door screaming for more In a world that owes you nothing you give everything, everything And now I’m caught in between What I can’t...
View ArticleWhy do adoptees cut off contact???????????
This question (superfluous punctuation included) was in our hits based on search phrases. I thought it made for a good question: Why do adoptees cut off contact??????????? [Interpret as you wish.]
View ArticleAddressing the Second Offense
In reading some of the posts on birthdays, in experiencing as a result some of my own vast, unexpected sadness behind that topic as well as reading it in others, I saw how the trauma expressed, though...
View ArticleRedressing the Second Offense
In a previous post, I asked what strategies we have discovered for addressing those sorts of occasions when we find ourselves face-to-face with with people expressing “opinions” (they almost always...
View ArticleThe Criteria for Choosing and Not Choosing
I went to the local animal shelter yesterday. I do that sometimes. To get back to my roots. This is therefore in two parts. The first part summarises details from the trip. The second part poses some...
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