Violeta Altmann

Author: Violeta

  • Family in celebration mode

    Family in celebration mode

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    It could have fooled anyone. A celebratory sight. Dressed for holiday: our table, our attire, our smiles.

  • How well do you understand adoption?

    How well do you understand adoption?

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    I know now that I didn’t know anything really, back when I decided to dive into the deep end of adoption. But I knew then how little I understood, and I was afraid. I asked myself: do I really want to start this journey and do I have what it takes to survive it?

  • Cartea se lansează în Ianuarie

    Cartea se lansează în Ianuarie

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    Copiii noștri au o voce. O voce senină, clară, chiar și atunci când este tremurată sau soptită. Uneori nouă adulților ne este frică sau jenă să privim drept în ochi inima lor, iubirea lor, durerea lor. Dar important e că vrem să le ascultăm povestea. N-o să înțelegem niciodată pe deplin totul. Dar faptul că…

  • About Sadness

    About Sadness

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    “I feel sad”, says my 5 year old. “Why”, I ask. “I don’t know”, she answers.

  • Despre Tristețe

    Despre Tristețe

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    Mă simt trista. Zice a mea, cea de 5 ani. De ce? Întreb. Nu stiu. Răspunde ea sincer.

  • A week in France in November

    A week in France in November

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    I’ve known Livia for over three decades. The longest I’ve known any of my current adult friends. My Mom tells me stories about going shopping for her wedding, with Livia’s mom (her wedding godmother as well). We are second degre cousins. We share a great-great grandparent. My genealogist-by-nature mom would know. And we used to…

  • Waiting for our second daughter

    Waiting for our second daughter

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    It was a warm Fall season, much like this one, when with intense emotions, with anticipation and nervousness, we were waiting to become parents for the first time. Two years have passed since. We prepared for the impact, like two ships on the stormy sea.

  • My first book

    My first book

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    I wrote this. For Jackie. For us. Inspired by the monthly meetings at a post adoption support group. We heard so many golden truths, but applying them feels less natural. I was nervous and excited to read it Jackie. She loved it! At some pages she would just listen quietly. At others she would giggle…

  • Familiarity with kids

    Familiarity with kids

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    Little kids made me uncomfortable as an adolescent and young adult. I felt no desire to hold them or to interact with them. For the most part I didn’t understand them, and as far as I could remember I was just not around babies at all. Though as a little girl, I played mommy for…

  • Exploring nature on a whim

    Exploring nature on a whim

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    In college I longed to go explore beautiful Romania. But I can count on one hand how many times I did that. I love nature, I enjoy hiking, but I was in a pretty lazy crowd. Only three guys had cars, and the logistics of traveling were otherwise complicated. And the days, the weeks, the…

  • Rugă

    Rugă

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    Cand ma asez seara tarziu in pat, si o aud in surdina pe Jackie cum ofteaza in somn, nu mai am cuvinte, desi gandurile alearga mai cu viteza.

  • Wisdom of expression

    Wisdom of expression

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    It’s easier and easier to impart judgment. We asses the world, we make decisions about it, we look at it subjectively and objectively. No matter.