I just want to share a a little bit of joy with you all.  I’m just coming back from a brief travel jaunt to Bermuda where I visited a new-found cousin.

Long-story-short, she was given up for adoption at birth and is trying to re-connect with her birth-family members.  She found me in Facebook.  At first I had no clue who she was, but once I saw that she had a few of my own cousins already in her friends list I took a chance and accepted her request.  One evening, I happened to be showing my parents other family members photos in Facebook and my new cousin’s name came up.  My mother reluctantly told me that she knew who this person was but didn’t want to give me much more information than that.

Armed with this new piece of knowledge, I started dialog with my cousin.  Needless to say, she was very happy to hear from me and we’ve pretty much been in daily conversation ever since.  We met briefly a few weeks ago while I was staying in Washington DC.  We spent much a day together and had a wonderful time.  She in-turn invited me to visit her and I jumped on the opportunity.  While there we had some serious one-on-one time…  re-counted some personal stories, had some good laughs and shed some heart-felt tears.  She is a beautiful soul and I’m thrilled that we are are able to make this connection…  and we have YEARS and a whole lot of catching up to do.

Having said all that…  it never ceases to amaze me the good of what can come out from the www