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Happy birthday Ruth Van Reken!!
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Our friend and advisor, Ruth Van Reken, is 63 years old today!!! YAY! Happy birthday Ruth! Thank you so much for all the work you’ve done all these years for TCKs and CCKs everywhere. 
Ruth is the co-author of Third Culture Kids: The Experience of Growing Up Amoung Worlds and author of Letters Never Sent, a chapter in Strangers at Home. You can read more about Ruth Van Reken here
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July 30, 2008 | Filed Under Fun and Games, General Forum
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July 30th, 2008 at 4:23 pm
Van harte gefeliciteerd!! Hiep Hiep Hoera, en nog vele jaren! May the new year bring you joy, may new dreams take root and may old dreams manifest!
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July 30th, 2008 at 4:43 pm
Have a very happy birthday!
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July 30th, 2008 at 4:50 pm
Happy birthday!
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July 30th, 2008 at 5:50 pm
Have a wonderful birthday and thank you so much for all your work!
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July 30th, 2008 at 6:37 pm
Happy birthday!
Maligayang kaarawan! Yay!
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July 30th, 2008 at 9:03 pm
I agree with Kristina! So glad you were born and your journey took you to this point. May the future hold even more adventures.
As we Danes say: Tillykke med fødselsdagen!
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July 30th, 2008 at 10:27 pm
Thank you, thank you, thank you all for your wishes for me today….I feel like the “old ma” (as they say in Liberia) of this group but you have no idea how much each of you through your writings, your interactions in various ways with each other and me, now and through the years, you and countless other TCKs/CCKs have enriched my life.
What has blown me away about TCKID.com and all that goes on here is how, after twenty plus years of trying to figure out how to make this topic widely known for the benefit of all of us who have lived a cross-cultural childhood and still doing it a meeting at a time, a personal encounter at a time, through this forum Brice has found a way to suddenly spread the word and get this type of community going. Thanks to all of you who have helped him technically, to Paulette for her great suggestions for the teleconferences, to every single one of you who have sent in the posts, who have answered the questions during the teleconferences, etc…what a team! I am in awe to watch it happen! It gives me so much joy.
But the work has only begun…it’s just that with this grouping here at TCKid.com, there is so much hope! All we have learned as a community are also lessons to be applied to many others in our world at this point in history. My generation’s job was to help define and give language to our experiences. Yours is to continue helping not only ourselves but others understand the “new normals” of our day. What are the new norms or developmental processes and identity formation for virtually everyone growing up in our changing world? How do we extrapolate from our experience to seeing the gifts others also have from their life stories?
We really have only just begun to understand how much we have to offer as well as to learn about all these fast changes. As I wrote for FIGT at some point, “We are not spectators in the stands but players in the field. We have much to learn even as we have much to give.” (or something like that!)
The wonderful thing is to discover our very lives have so much purpose developed in the petri dish of our life experiences. May each of you special people find as much joy in your journey as you use your TCK/CCK roots as I have in mine!
Thanks again for your birthday wishes for me. I accept and appreciate them all!
My life is blessed indeed because of you and I am grateful.
Ruth
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July 31st, 2008 at 9:06 am
Eh, I might be a bit late on the birthday wishes but happy birthday! I hope it was great!!!
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July 31st, 2008 at 3:54 pm
Ruth,,, thank you so much for your work in the TCK/CCK field. I nod my head when I read Third Culture Kids: The Experience of Growing Up Amoung Worlds. Having a language to express who we are is such a beautiful thing.
I’ve attended your teleconference and I could relate with you and really appreciated much of what you said. I am an MK and when I recently attended a Korean MK conference, I had convictions in my heart that the time has come for the older MKs to be able to minister to the younger MKs.
I would love to learn more about you.
Once again thank you so much for what you are doing!
You deserve so much happiness, smiles, and giggles on your b-day.
생일 축하해요! (seng il chuka haeyo!)
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August 2nd, 2008 at 1:04 pm
I know this is a bit late, but: Happy Birthday Ruth!
You are an awesome person and I admire you for all the work you’ve done helping TCKs (including me!) Thank you so much!
I hope you had a great day and got to enjoy it with the people that are special for you
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