The Future of Adoption
As National Adoption Awareness Month comes to a close, I felt compelled to get some things down on to paper (so to speak). Mirroring our political climate, the adoption community has had many divisions as of late which have caused me to pull back on the multiple commitments I have had in past years. I disabled my Facebook for most of November and stayed away from my I-phone, the news and tried to focus on non-digital projects in the safe cocoon of home. While working on an organization project of documents, I came across some information related to my reunion I had forgotten about and felt triggered by. In response, I created my own personal pity party (which mirrored the collective trauma that many adoptees experience during National Adoption Awareness Month). Over the holiday weekend, I received a wake up call from the Universe that there is something bigger than just my/our own personal and individual experiences of adoption. And it is this: we need to have an eye towar