https://forgeover.com/tags/bonding/ Recent content in Bonding on Forgeover Hugo en-us Thu, 26 Mar 2020 13:36:21 +0000 https://forgeover.com/articles/family/ted-india-and-beyond/ Tue, 08 Sep 2009 22:47:28 +0000 https://forgeover.com/articles/family/ted-india-and-beyond/ <p><img loading="lazy" src="http://conferences.ted.com/TEDIndia/images/logo.png" title="TED India">While I was on vacation, I received word that I had been invited to be a guest at <a href="http://conferences.ted.com/TEDIndia">TED India 2009</a>. Tonight I completed the registration and made it official. My tickets are purchased and plans are being laid.</p> <p>When I mentioned to my dad that I was almost certainly going to India, he told me that he had always wanted to go and got this far away look in his eye. I instantly extended an invitation to him, hoping that he would accept, but aware that it was a big lift for him. I was happily surprised when my Mom started to encourage him and he gradually agreed that this was the chance of a lifetime. Of course my parents have this habit of dreaming about things in a way that looks to outsiders like resolve, so I was optimistically skeptical until last week when we bought our plane tickets.</p>