To: Leo Volont - I hope I have found the right person
I am at an Adoption Party and a little black girl walks up to me, 4 or 5 years old, and wraps her arms around my leg. She sucks her thumb and holds a toy rabbit, too. She calls me mom and will not let go of me.
In the dream I talk to my family about having to go through an acceptance process including therapy and counseling. By the time we get home she is 7 years old. We go to her grandmother’s home and so that I can meet her grandmother. My child is dressed in Sunday clothes so that she can go to church with her grandmother and afterwards we have dinner. She explains that her grandmother needs to teach me how to do her hair so that I can “raise her up right.” (Beauty salons, gossip, fashion shows, etc.) She explains that she is going to be an important leader in her community and I need to get this part of her upbringing right.
The dream skips ahead and she is now in her late teens and has a boyfriend. She tells me that she will be alright and that she has a rich cultural heritage and strong family ties because I made sure that she stayed close to her grandmother.
Throughout the dream, she is disappointed in the way that foster kids are disappointed with life in general. For example, “Oh, you’re taking care of me. Is that what this is called?”
I am at an Adoption Party and a little black girl walks up to me, 4 or 5 years old, and wraps her arms around my leg. She sucks her thumb and holds a toy rabbit, too. She calls me mom and will not let go of me.
In the dream I talk to my family about having to go through an acceptance process including therapy and counseling. By the time we get home she is 7 years old. We go to her grandmother’s home and so that I can meet her grandmother. My child is dressed in Sunday clothes so that she can go to church with her grandmother and afterwards we have dinner. She explains that her grandmother needs to teach me how to do her hair so that I can “raise her up right.” (Beauty salons, gossip, fashion shows, etc.) She explains that she is going to be an important leader in her community and I need to get this part of her upbringing right.
The dream skips ahead and she is now in her late teens and has a boyfriend. She tells me that she will be alright and that she has a rich cultural heritage and strong family ties because I made sure that she stayed close to her grandmother.
Throughout the dream, she is disappointed in the way that foster kids are disappointed with life in general. For example, “Oh, you’re taking care of me. Is that what this is called?”
