Jerome StueartMy essay in GEIST, "The Dead Viking My Birthmother Gave Me" and you can read the whole thing!
www.geist.com/fact/the-dea...
My illustration of my #birthmother fielding messages from the dead for an audience. She connects people.
#adoption #adoptee #faith #spirituality #lgbtq
Boots ChantillyToday’s #NAAM post was written by relinquishing mother (or #birthmother , as adoption likes to call her) Claudia Corrigan D’Arcy, & it’s a must-read. #adoption #evergreen #loss #grief https://celiacenter.org/29-things-i-wish-i-knew-before-adoption-entered-my-life/
29 Things I Wish I Knew Before Adoption Entered my Life
A first mother shares her story about planning an adoption and speaks from the heart. This Grown in My Heart Adoption Carnival Topic was supposed to be “10 Things I Wish I Knew Before I Was Touched By Adoption”, but I can’t use the feel-good wording of “touched”. I was not touched by adoption, it’s more like torched, trampled, traumatized, terrorized, tortured, and torn apart by adoption.
Paul H 
Little Green, Joni Mitchell. She wrote this song shortly after she placed her daughter up for adoption. Keeping it in the family can be really hard sometimes. For all the birth mothers out there.
"So you sign all the papers in the family name
You're sad and you're sorry but you're not ashamed
Little green, have a happy ending"
#JoniMItchell #LittleGreen #adoption #BirthMother #JukeboxFridayNight #keepitinthefamily
PhoenixSerenity*Please go see this if you can. I met Dawna 2 yrs ago & she's amazing. She's one of very few #photographers that I've allowed to take my portrait too.*
#Solo #PhotographicArt #exhibition of #LargeFormat #BlackAndWhite #SilverGelatin several exposures by Dawna Mueller recount the #artist journey tracing her #AncestralRoots in Manitoba.
A child of the #SixtiesScoop , #Métis /#Anishinaabe child was taken from her #BirthMother & placed in care of a #UkrainianCanadian family.
https://theprovince.com/entertainment/local-arts/unforgotten-my-journey-home-showcases-sixties-scoop-artists-reclamation-journey/wcm/e10ddfb0-0f0c-451c-a80d-d4a72ea7cc7e
