Both/and

On what we lose, and gain

I spent July on the other side of the world. It was a trip I’d been waiting to take for nearly three years, but also it snuck up on me, somehow.

These last few years we've been working to adopt a deaf child who has spent his life in an institution. The process has been slow, confusing, and unpredictable, with a lot of bureaucratic hoops crafted by his g…