Meeting Anna

I think it's funny how some days you can feel so single in the world , like you don't share enough similarities with A type of people or B type of people. Than there are days like yesterday! Days when the mystical forces that work for good in the universe connect you with someone is a way that is truley amazing!

Yesterday I met my cousin Anna. She was adopted out of my family at birth. Now here we both are in Australia , about 3 generations and just and hour and a half apart.

My Dad is the youngest of 3 kids from my grandmother, who also adopted out one of her children. (I realised there is a lot of hereditary patterns in the family!) My Dad and Grandmother immigrated to Canada in about 1958 . My Dad was 11 and his sister, my aunt Valerie would have been around 20 at the time. I never met my aunt Valeria but she would always write us and I rememeber as a kid being so fasiniated by the fact that I have an aunty in England.

So Fast forward... my aunt Valerie passed away 10 years ago and we lost contact with her children. Untill last year I found her daughter Perri on facebook and we started to catch up. At the time I was just planning to come to Australia. When I told Perri about my plans she told me she found out she has an adopted sister who lives in Australia!

Fast fast forward to yesterday, I met her! We spent the day walking in a cute little beach community , had lunch and than tea at her place. We shared stories about our immiediate families which funnily share many things in common! She told me her story of finding her birth mother and sisters. Anna and her husband used ancestry.com , wrote letters, mailed away for certificates of marriages and deaths and were able to piece so much together! She gave me 3 family tree's from her sisters and mother to my grandmother , back to my great great great great great's . Dating all the way back to 1786!

I felt a strong connection with Anna. It was partly the wow factor of being connected with a person who is directly related to me. Who is so many years and seas apart from me! But also being connected in a metaphysical sense to a whole new realm of family roots. Did I mention ALL THE WAY BACK TO 1786.

That is 230 years of people and places and love and loses , immigrating and working, hobbies and babies, dinners on holidays and cake on birthdays... all the marvelous aspects of human existence. Individual lives. 210 years that are indispensible to my existence. My individual life.

For me yesterday was like an inhertience of knowledge and love from the uniervse. A really extra-ordinary reminder that we are all apart of something in a way that is much greater than we may ever ever understand. Much more than even our acknowledgements of the serendipitous extend to.

"Salutations from the cosmos of consanguinity."