Happy Halloween!
It’s the night for costumes, cuteness, and shameless begging, even by those conservative parents who don’t mind asking that the candy be “spread around” to their little ones. 
And in many neighborhoods across the country, along with the pillowcases or orange plastic pumpkins come little orange boxes… you know, from UNICEF.
Last Halloween I was incensed disheartened to read about (more…)
Categories: Adoption · Holidays
Tagged: Adoption, anti-adoption, Halloween, international adoption, UNICEF
Jade formerly-Poeteray now has a new home, according to this article in the JoongAng Daily:
The nine-year-old has been adopted by an expatriate family in Hong Kong and currently lives a normal life, an official at the Hong Kong Social Welfare Department said Saturday.
Of course, I’m curious at just how “normal” a life she can have after everything that she’s been through. Hopefully her new family realizes that what looks like normal on the outside can be anything but on the inside.
I’m wishing Jade the best, and hope that her new Forever Family is just that: Forever.
Categories: On the Wires · Uncategorized
Tagged: adoption dissolution, forever family, Jade Poeteray
Just wanted to wish everyone at the Asian Adult Adoptee Gathering & Film Festival in Hawaii a good, happy time this weekend! I wish I were there in person, but trust me, I’m there in spirit
Categories: Shout-outs
Tagged: Asian Adoptee Gathering
Categories: Korean Language · password
Tagged: adoptee, Adoption, Korean adoptee, Korean class, Korean Language, learning Korean, loss
(FYI: "Kim" is my LAST name)
Temporary Wealth
October 17, 2008 · Leave a Comment
Nothing Gold Can Stay
by Robert Frost
Nature’s first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf’s a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.
photograph (c) Sang-Shil Kim, 2008
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