It’s a small, small world
January 30, 2006It is funny how “small” the world is…
PH has a sister who blogs (well, I think he has two sisters but I’m not positive). How do I know this? We were discussing a book we both read called Blue Like Jazz. The author, Don Miller, is coming to a local college at the end of April for its Festival of Faith and Writing. As we both wanted more information about the festival, he commented his sister works part of the time for the college and is a sponsor/donor for the festival. So I figured it out by reading the sponsors list. Then, I googled her name and through a couple of links of her writing, found her blog.
Well, her blog links to a blog of a young woman named Jana (who is a birthmom of two boys in an open adoption). Because of my interest in adoption, being an adoptive mother, I clicked on her blog. I then clicked on a blog under the Birthmothers BlogRing list on Jana’s blog and discovered that it was N. I met N on one adoption forum, realized she was on another adoption forum and we often found ourselves posting on similar topics and really challenging each other’s thoughts about what adoption is, how it comes about, etc. in today’s society. I was thrilled, to say the least, to find N because I always admired her writing and honesty about her experience and life as a birthmom and a parenting mom now. Neither of us posts as much to the adoption forums we used to visit (although I still peruse them on a daily basis), so now I can keep up better with her.
Weird how that happened!
ROFL! …This is like that CRC game my family plays whenever they get together with other Dutch people:
“Hey, do you know so and so? He graduated from Calvin in ___ year; he has a sister who went to Hope in ___ year; yeah, didn’t she work for Ripon Christian then in __ year? Yes, and my sis-in-law worked there too, in ____ years.” And somehow it all leads to everyone knowing everyone. =)
There seems to be only about 3 colleges the Dutch Reformed/CRC go to: Calvin, Hope, and Dordt in Iowa. I went to Hope for two years but I’m not CRC