Henry: A Poetry in Motion

Sunday, June 22, 2008

A Poetry in Motion

China
China is a great place. I like to feel its wind in my face.
There are lots of people nearby. I like it so much I want to cry.
It is very nice. It is like paradise.
China is the best.
- Dorothy-Rui Corrigan

Kites
China is fun.
I like it when you get to fly kites.
Henry is my brother and I love him.

Kites are like airplanes.- Clara-Li Corrigan

Ah
Ah Ah Ah
- Henry Xiaowei Corrigan

Here
Here, is the universe of the exchange out of genuine friendship of famous glutton and sunshine cook.
Here, play various beautiful edible movement every days.
Here, have collected numerous flavor snake and delicacies well known banquet.
Select here … in the beautiful edible artistic hall with fragrance everywhere and let you appetite time increase absolutely.
Here, what you taste arrives in not only the delicacies of delicious food, you can enjoy Chinese porcelain cultural place … fully refined congeal to practice an artistic marrow.

- From a Menu Description at the Sunshine Plaza in Lanzhou

Love
Love is incompatible with fear.
- Ancient Chinese Proverb

2 comments:

Anonymous said...: To Andy and all....

Everyone looks happier by the day!! You are so blessed.

Love,

Ellyn and Sean; June 23, 2008 at 10:09 AM
Unknown said...: Dorothy and Clara, China is bringing out your inner poets, no wonder you like it so much.

Henry - that's a snazzy rhyme pattern!

Sending lots of hugs and good wishes to our fearless and poetic friends.

The Guill family; June 25, 2008 at 8:23 PM

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How This All Began

It was a typically dusty afternoon on September 11, 2006 in a dry, hardscrabble, terraced plateau region of Gansu Province in northwest China. There in Jingchuan County south of the city of Pingliang, a driver named Tian Wu Ping had just dropped off a fare at a roadside hotel called the Tian Yuan Guest House when something caught his eye on the east side of the crossroad and next to a refuse bin.

It looked at first like a bundle of rags but turned out to be an infant wrapped in an old cotton quilt, a small baby boy who appeared to be newborn. Tian picked up the child and called the local police. The baby had been abandoned. He was missing part of his face below his nose. Born with a serious cleft anomaly, he had no bone structure between the upper bridge of his nose and his lower jaw, and no separation between his oral and nasal/sinus cavities.

Moreover, the child had been left by the roadside without the usual effects. No red cloth note indicating a birth date. No bottle, cup, or packet of formula. No infant clothes. The police drove him north to Pingliang and turned him over to the prefecture Civil Affairs Bureau, which placed him with the Pingliang City Social Welfare Institute. The staff at this orphanage named him Liang Xiao (Small) Wei (Big).

On admittance, a doctor noted that Xiao Wei was indeed just a day or two old and underweight at 5 lbs. Then this frail little child took his place among about 80 other children then at the orphanage. Another exam at five months showed that despite the issues that can accompany his condition, Xiao Wei was small but growing. So the orphanage staff posed him for a few photos and prepared a dossier of paperwork to send off to Beijing, to the China Center for Adoption Affairs (CCAA), for his case to be accepted into the CCAA’s waiting child program.

China's waiting child program seeks to find homes internationally for orphaned or abandoned children with special needs that might otherwise make finding a family highly unlikely. These can include treatable medical issues such as congenital heart disease, Hepatitis B, cleft issues, or spina bifuda. Some waiting children have more severe issues.

Not all abandoned children with special needs become waiting children. Not all waiting children find homes.