RE-DEFINING SUCCESS: Woos and Woes

Sheelagh Cabalda is a partner, mama and educator, who has worked extensively in youth development, cultural studies, multicultural counseling, cancer support, higher education, events administration and non-profit management. Redefining success is a combination of positive & changing self-concept, inner directedness and a balance of priorities. It is personal empowerment -- taking charge over what we can control & accepting what we cannot. Every day is an attempt to do just that.

3.3.08

waiting

waiting
at the airport
a scene from love actually
flashes across the terminal floor

i watch
my husband and i
walk out of the doors
exhausted from our adoptive journey of pregnant love

and in our arms
sleeps a year-old bundle

our family
waiting enthusiastically
to greet a new member of the tribe

overwhelmed
i long for
a child in waiting