Thought of the Day & Small World Connection

One of our regular readers is “Malia’s Mama” (click here to see her blog). I have become fast friends with her through the blogosphere. It is a crazy, crazy, small, small world, but we have a sort of incredible story — 1.5 years ago I made a photo/scrap book thing that “tells”/documents the story of our family’s adoption. I had randomly found a poem on the internet that I adored, and one of the things I put in the book was the poem. Also, right here on this blog, on our Adoption Day this year, I posted the same poem (check it out by clicking here). So, fast forward to a few weeks ago –> I start noticing this woman- “Malia’s Mama” regularly posting these really interesting comments on our blog. She’s clearly knowledgeable about Haiti, and her comments strike me as unusual (in a good way). We start emailing. We become, like I said, fast friends through the blogosphere. Eventually she shares a couple of her pieces of writing with me. And… one of them is… none other than… the One Child poem that I had put in our photo book and on our blog. O.k., is that crazy, crazy, small, small world or what??? Anyway… I really appreciate “Malia’s Mama’s” poem(s) and her comments on our blog. After I saw her comment on today’s post (click here for that post), a thought that I’ve had many, many times once again got stuck in my head. This evening I keep thinking this thought that I think a lot:
You can take the boy out of Haiti, but you can’t take the Haiti out of the boy.