This Too Shall Pass - OK Go

If you want a great analogy of how perfectly sequenced I feel like the adoption process needs to be, take a look at OK Go's video for their song, "This Too Shall Pass."

A few stats about the video:

• Nearly 60 people worked on the project.
• Six months to create the video from conceptualization, with two months of planning and four months for design and filming.
• The machine was constructed in a two-story warehouse from over 700 household objects, and traversed an estimated half-mile course.
• More than 30 people were needed to help reset the machine after each run.
• It took more than 60 takes, over the course of two days, to get it right.

The paperwork in the adoption process needs to be as well-timed and perfectly executed as the elaborate Rube Goldberg machine featured in the band's video.  The home study is contingent upon a strict protocol of meetings with a social worker, medical exams and background checks from the local police department and possibly multiple states.  Immigration approval is contingent upon the home study.  The dossier is contingent upon immigration approval.  The dossier is shipped from home to agency, to Chinese Embassy, to agency and then is loaded on a plane to China.  If you're lucky, this whole process only requires few "takes."  And that's just go get our dossier to China.  We're still learning what's in store after we're matched. 

But as they say, this too shall pass.