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I’m a book person, always have been, and I imagine that when my sight fails I will request the companionship of someone who wouldn’t mind reading to me; books on tape just don’t smell the same. Anyhow, I turned to a book I found shortly after I had…
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sorry it took me a while to reply. this is very complex and i was reading it over and over again..this foreign land u speak of perhaps it will help u to know that i am as well on foreign land and many of us. I am literally on foreign land, I am from…
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hey, this is a strong post , and i am in tears, i so need to hear this so i know how adoptees feel. I kind of have a sense but its solid when you talk about it. faith is the way and accepting your self as a whole woman is the goal, you mom is a luck…
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This is a group for anyone who has or is considering adopting children of a race other than their own
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For hopeful adoptive parents and adoptive families to discuss their international adoption journeys.
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Another Life Lesson

I’m a book person, always have been, and I imagine that when my sight fails I will request the companionship of someone who wouldn’t mind reading to me; books on tape just don’t smell the same.

Anyhow, I turned to a book I found shortly after I had begun working with hospice. I knew Kubler-Ross worked extensively with death/dying/grief and I liked the fact that this books title had ‘life’ in it. Life Lessons (Kubler-Ross & Kessler). I finished it a few months ago, but I a

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Posted on March 5, 2010 at 4:35am —

D. Batchelor

We Sat and Wept...

Something else from the recent past that taps into my adoption story!

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October 6th 2009
Lundi matin
A Chula Vista


The Psalm that Pastor Wilson read to us on Sunday stands out strongly in my mind right now. While I could not find it at the time, I have found it now and especially in light of my verbatim presentation and how that went, it strikes loud deep chords, that rumble like the low pedals of an organ resounding through a great… Continue

Posted on July 2, 2009 at 5:21pm — 1 Comment

D. Batchelor

Another Both/And

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I wrote this a bit over a month ago, not entirely certain where to share it. Here may be the place.

Another Both/And
07 May 2009 at 10:31
Monday
May 4, 2009

I’m wondering what the morning really did do to me.
What I mean is this: during the morning Chaplain report at the hospital where I work, another Chaplain mentioned that she was going to be on-call Sunday and asked if there were something special she could do for… Continue

Posted on July 1, 2009 at 7:58pm — 1 Comment

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