I am now ready to give the keys to this blog back to its owner, as they are coming home with Daniel now. I cannot begin to explain how happy and honored that I was to be your humble narrator in this journey that my sister and her family had embarked. It was a point of immense pride that I was the first person to see these blog entries as they were sent from China. That I got to email with Lisa several times a day, not just on blog entries, but other, more trivial issues, kept me in touch with their adventure on a way that I enjoyed. It wasn't work...
I know that this blog will be kept to show Madi and Daniel their origins and the outpouring of love during these times. Blogs are the new photo album. Lisa, Jimmy, Madi and Daniel are now going to the next chapter in their life and we'll all be watching.
And now, a small note on disintermediation. Or how can a regional superpower and information blocker as big as China be completely thwarted by a mildly determined blogger and her somewhat wired brother. China's Great (Fire)Wall of China was put into place to disable the sharing of unwanted information. In that, it is a complete failure. Whether I was in New Hampshire, Burlington, Boston, Frankfurt or Helsinki, I would open my laptop periodically and approve comments or move a blog post from email to blogger. At one point, I approved a bunch of comments using my cell phone from an Indian restaurant in downtown Helsinki in a blizzard. Billions of yuan and hundreds of thousands of Chinese security people were sidestepped without a serious thought. That should be a lesson to those petty tyrants that would try to stifle the free-flow of information.
China's awesome power was completely steamrolled by a power that they still fail to comprehend: the love of a family that travels halfway around the world to find their son, the love of their family to help spread the word, the love of their friends that thirst for the slightest scrap of information. And -- above all -- the love of God to bless us for all of this to happen.
I will now sign off, knowing that this blog is back in the right hands. Godspeed.
Now send it.
8 comments:
Thank you, Andrew, for making this happen! 3Ds
Andy!!!!!!!!!!! You are too cute. That was wonderful to read - geez get me some kleenex again!!!!! Everything you said is right ON. I was surprised how easy it was for this blog to work as seemlessly as it did - from other countries, too. Expecially from the country of Cow Hampshire - haha..thank God for you Andrew because you made this all possible and we ALL greatly appreciate your abilities :) xomo
Of course Andrew, you had me in tears until you typed "now send it" then I was cracking up! Thanks for doing this, it meant so much to me....
Kathy
Such a precious time to witness your family grow in such a special way.
Enjoy this magical time with your sis and Thanks for posting !!
Hi Andrew! Thanks so much for doing this!! We miss you guys!!
I have read and followed you every step of the way! This has been amazing.Can't wait to meet Daniel one day. Love to you all, Renea
Thanks. It was a wonderful way to "meet" Daniel for the first time.
Loving words from a loving brother; well-deserved scolding to a tyrannical nation.
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