Radio Show

Listened to a great show on NPR this morning on our way back from San Jose. It was called "Finding Home: 50 Years of International Adoption." The stories were from Korea, Guatemala, and China. The photo above shows Korean babies on their way to the States, courtesy of Holt, an evangelical Christian adoption organisation.

Earlier this morning, we shuttled Cappy's mom to the San Jose airport. She's off for a week long boat cruise aboard the "Spirit of Discovery" on the Columbia river. We then stopped for lunch at my favorite Japanese restaurant in the Bay Area, Gombei. Gombei is the real deal. No funky cream cheese and salmon 49er rolls here. It's the best Japanese food in the Bay Area.

So we're heading up on 880 from San Jose and this radio program starts playing on NPR. It was heartwarming, truthful, and at times very sad.

Many adoptees agonize over their lost identities, search for their birth families, and loss of cultural identity. Although these are not light issues, it is also never true that life with blood relatives is perfectly happy and trauma free.

Listening to some of the adoptee stories reminded me of the most wonderful thing about adoption--gaining a family and an opportunity for a better life.

If you get a chance, have a listen.