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"The Sky Doesn't Ask Permission to Change."
Some evenings, the sky reminds us that change is rarely quiet.
Tonight's clouds didn't ease into color. They burned into it, fast and wide, covering everything in sight. And yet, underneath all that motion, the shoreline stayed steady. The palms bent in the wind. The sand kept its shape.
That is what ripple effects often look like in families touched by adoption. The sky changes. The emotional climate shifts in ways no one announced or asked permission for. And the people standing in it, especially the children already there, are left finding their footing in a landscape that suddenly looks unfamiliar.
We talk often about the adoptee's experience, and rightly so. But today we are thinking about everyone standing on that same shoreline: the biological children who watched their family's sky change color too, often without anyone asking how it looked from where they stood.
Their footing matters. Their experience of the shift matters.
Because the ripple moves through all of them.
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