Julie G wrote:I'm so happy that you all got to meet up! If anyone wants to write a brief "book report" we'd all love to hear about it. I've had the honor of previously spending time with both Floramaria & buck3maureen and would have loved to have been in attendance. Thank you to all who participated and organized. It's very powerful to meet and spend time with our genetic family. I'm even more energized about our Indy meet-up on the 19th!
Well, Julie G, we would have loved for you to have been there with us!
As you said it is very powerful to be with our genetic family.
JulieMc and buck3maureen were gracious enough to meet at Peet’s Coffee in Solana Beach, which was a last minute fall back when my WiFi went out just when we were trying to set up an alternative to meeting in the park. It was wonderful to be together , face-to-face, sharing our experience. We had wide-ranging conversations for two hours, sharing our individual experiences, and many valuable resources and ideas...a micro-version of our greater community, learning from each other. It felt tremendously supportive and also was a lot of fun! We each felt the relief of being to discuss so many topics in the free-form exchange of real time conversation. I learned a lot and had to pull out my phone and take a few notes of things I want to follow up on.
Before we went our separate ways, we talked about getting together regularly. We intend to set up another SoCal MeetUp for late April. For those of you who were interested in getting together and were not able to be there this time...we hope to see you at the next one.
Hugs and gratitude to JulieMc and buck3maureen for making this one a reality!