My life has been one long scream since the protest.
It feels good, it feels awful, moving more into the good than the awful now.
I was so happy to be back. I can’t help it, I love where I live, and I love Autumn, and thank you so much for your hospitality. Paying my parking fare, calling people on my cell, even though I am not allowed to.
All of it.
Heading back over the most beautiful bridge I have ever seen, oh I know Paris has much more beautiful bridges, but the Golden Gate to me. Nothing can compare. HOME. The promise of the best food on earth, people I understand, even as they cut me off in their BMW’s, I am used to this.
Prince was playing on the radio, there was a time when I was way too cool for Prince. In fact when as a teenybopper, I saw Peter Murphy cover Purple Rain at the John Anson Ford theatre ( I think that is right?) we all stood in silence to witness someone so cool sing a song that was so lame. Except the song wasn’t so lame, we were just all indied-out and naive.
This time, across the bridge, Prince(who also had identity issues) and I belted out with passionate intensity, “I know I know I know times are changing, and it is time we all reached out for something new, that means you too” This is right after I heard the other great 80’s classic, Opportunity.
Of course to me, the song isn’t about making money, but restoring adoptee rights.
So jazzed. You know the whole we can do this, let’s do this.
That is what the protest gave me, a whole world of possibilites.
“There are a lot of opportunities, if not you can make them”
It is still stunning to me how we were received by N.O. it was a blessing, Okay, born-again again. Everyone knew who we were.
The thing is, it was so crazy easy.
EASY.
Not only did we do good, it was child’s play.
Not only was it easy, it was FUN.
Driving back over the bridge, I found that there were lots of other places I was holding myself back in real life, so in the week, I have been back, I have loosened up and allowed myself to do other things I wouldn’t have allowed myself before.
The results are amazing, I am prospering so much, sometimes I think it would be easier to faint.
It would definetly be easier and grosser to go back to that fearful place, I took a risk, and I won.
It encourages me to take more and more.
It has paid off in ways that I could never have dreamed of.
Let’s make lots of opportunity.
Posted by adopteerights on August 1, 2008 at 6:22 am
Yay!!!!!!!!
So happy you are continuing to be the warrior you are!!!! Way to go Joy! I feel the same, i’m more “free”, free to be me, with confidence. NO WAS easy wasn’t it… man, i can’t believe how easy it really was. Everyone just “got it” thank you joy for being there, and being a part of the beginning of an incredible tradition that, imo will change our history
Posted by Theresa on August 1, 2008 at 9:33 am
Now I’ll be singing that all day
You can see I’m single-minded, I know what I could be
How’d you feel about it, come and take a walk with me?
I’m looking for a partner, regardless of expense
Think about it seriously, you know, it makes sense
Posted by Margie (Third Mom) on August 1, 2008 at 4:20 pm
You go girl – kudos to everyone who made the Adoptee Rights Demonstration a success!
Posted by joy21 on August 2, 2008 at 1:41 am
That was the part that got me T. figures you would figure that out
“Think about it seriously, you know it makes sense”
YES!