The final post before migration

Hello readers, I hope everyone’s 2012 is off to great start!

Personally things are going well for me, but I’m in a holding pattern in a few major points of life. My fiancée Sasmita remains in India, I’m searching for a job in the field of development/ conflict resolution, and I’m looking for a new place to live with my eventual wife in the metro DC area.

Having so many decisions up in the air, results in decreased focus on my writing for this blog. Additionally, my computer contracted a virus during Thanksgiving, rendering it useless and I lost a few draft posts. With so much upheaval in my life, the motivation to re-write those posts is lacking.

So…this blog is moving again. No, I’m not talking about my physical location; that was last year.

I’m talking about where to find my writing on the web.

After much soul-searching and discussions with trusted friends, I have decided to join the blog Land of Gazillion Adoptees, here, as a principle contributor.

Kevin Ost-Vollmers; a very good friend of mine, currently residing in Minnesota, started LGA last year. Being a regular blogger will benefit both his blog and me personally in a few ways:

One, LGA does not have a regular voice from the Indian adult community and I would be able to change that. Two, the excellent LGA blog succeeds because it highlights many members of the adoption community and is a showcase for their stories and thoughts. I would be adding my voice to this larger endeavor. Three, this reduces pressure on me to constantly create new material, and lastly, blogging for LGA will expand my own audience of readers beyond you, my faithful family, friends, and occasional visitors.

I’m excited about where this collaboration will lead and humbled by the possibilities for the future. I’m joining some fantastic people with interesting experiences.

It’s been quite a 2.5 year run for this blog in its current form. The very name “world citizen’s blog” reflects my feelings that I am never fully at home, either in my birth culture of India, or in the culture of my adoption, America. That I and other adoptees are citizens of the whole world, not just one place.

Those feelings have not changed, especially after spending nearly half of 2011 in India. If anything the difficultly in reconciling the two has become greater.

I began blogging with great hesitation with this post around Father’s Day of 2009.

I shared some real emotion and vulnerabilities in this space and I have been richly rewarded for doing so. It has been great therapy for me to put some of these thoughts on paper and I appreciate you reading them.

I especially have enjoyed your comments and hashing out ideas with my readers.

I do hope that you will continue to follow my journey as an adoptee in my new “home.”

-adoptedkeralite

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