Numa numa

Yeah, it’s another post where I wax poetic about YouTube.

Before I begin, there’s this:







Everyone I know says the same thing. They start it out thinking they’ll only watch the first ten minutes or so, and they wind up watching the entire thing. If you’ve got 55 minutes, this one is well worth it.

I am so in love with people on YouTube. Vloggers are so much braver than me. I can hide behind a screen name and a text blog, but they’re right out there, their face for the world to see.

I don’t see a strong linked in community of adoption vloggers on YouTube as yet, the way we have on our blogs, but I’m thinking (hoping) that may change in the next year or so. While it’s healing and cathartic to vent, poetic or otherwise, about adoption via text, I think it takes real balls to put your face up there and lay it out unedited. These are balls that I do not possess.

These folks do though, so I wanted to show them a little love. Some vlog only about adoption, most vlog about life in general with an adoption video or two thrown in. Some are incredibly prolific while others only have one or two videos posted. But I wanted to get them all in one post because they represent to me an interesting progression in our community and the internet – from usenet to the mailing lists to the forums to the blogs, and now this. So take a visit and hit that subscribe button on their channels if you’re so inclined.

Adoptee
http://youtube.com/user/Adoptee

AdopteeTriangle
http://www.youtube.com/user/adopteetriangle

AdopteeWarrior
http://youtube.com/user/AdopteeWarrior

Chelle0774
http://youtube.com/user/CHELLE0774

ChicagoCiccone
http://www.youtube.com/user/chicagociccone

Coffeegirl28
http://youtube.com/user/Coffeegirl28

ErixUK
http://www.youtube.com/user/erixuk

FauxClaud
http://youtube.com/user/FauxClaud

GodBlessTheChildren
http://youtube.com/user/godblessthechildren

Guy, Interrupted
http://youtube.com/user/guyinterrupted

IWasStolen
http://www.youtube.com/iwasstolen

Jaeness
http://youtube.com/user/jaeness

KAmarineboy2012
http://www.youtube.com/user/KAmarineboy2012

Kdly07
http://youtube.com/user/Kdyl07

Kenny990274
http://youtube.com/user/kenny990274

May
http://www.youtube.com/user/Martinsen1

MeiLing04
http://www.youtube.com/user/meiling04


MsCrimson
http://youtube.com/user/MsCrimson

Much2Say1
http://youtube.com/user/much2say1

Myungsook777
http://youtube.com/user/myungsook777

Mydnighttokin
http://youtube.com/user/mydnighttokin

NathanielChristopher
http://youtube.com/user/NathanielChristopher

Rfields836
http://youtube.com/user/RFields836

StarGazingGirl81
http://youtube.com/user/stargazinggirl81

Stephxhoney
http://www.youtube.com/user/stephxhoney

SwayingLady
http://www.youtube.com/user/SwayingLady

Sweetnlow470
http://youtube.com/user/Sweetnlow470

TheAntiBitch
http://youtube.com/user/theantibitch

TruexSight
http://www.youtube.com/user/truexsight


Valadesign
http://youtube.com/user/valadesign

Wayward Radish
http://www.youtube.com/user/waywardradish

Yoonsblur
http://www.youtube.com/user/yoonsblur

Zuko4pres
http://www.youtube.com/user/zuko4prez

As usual I know I’ve missed people, so if you’re not on this list and you’ve got a channel, yell at me in comments and I’ll be sure to add you.

And thank you, for being so incredibly brave to take this next step in getting your voices heard. I’m very grateful.

nu ma, nu ma, nu ma iei.