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I still don't know if this is the greatest word for it, but I'm a transformer. No, not the one you're thinking of, but to move from one form of something to another, to make that transition, is to transform, right? It's more than just a transition, and it's beyond simple change. When we transform, we are still "us", but we do take on a different form---in whatever capacity is needed. My transformations have not happened suddenly, and there have been several throughout my life. But lately …
Well, okay, we didn't decide to make this international move quite that spontaneously, but someone told me recently that I had made it look so easy ---as if I just decided one day, and then did it! I appreciated the compliment, but that's not quite the case. It had been on our minds for awhile, but this was the time to make it a reality. And so, we jumped...all the way to America! Long story short---we took our 3 kiddos and left a city of 15 million, our home for 10 years, to a small town …
In my husband’s hometown, deep within China’s countryside, there is an old man who holds a very special book. This book cannot be borrowed, even for a day, and cannot be taken out of his home. It is the book which holds the genealogy---the family tree---for the Qian family dating back to the dynasties. Our children’s names have now been added to this incredible, hand-written, family tree. When we go back to the village every year at Chinese New Year, we see the book, and hope that our …