loss — Stories — TCK TOWN

Halting Proximity

Conversations are briefer. There is no physical contact. Our sense of community is bruised like a peach rolling from a table and making contact with a marble floor...

COVID-19By Paul Kennedy (From The Western Pacific, South East Asia, Europe & Alaska. Living in Tokyo)23 September 2020COVID-19, office, lockdown, third culture adult, third culture kid, TCK, employees, handshake, hug, injured, connection, lossComment

My Psychological Tattoo

You were always worthy, Until you made me unworthy, Emotional handcuffs clatter to the floor, Freedom…

ChangeBy Paul Kennedy (From The Western Pacific, South East Asia, Europe & Alaska. Living in Tokyo)29 July 2020relationships, third culture adult, third culture kid, tradition, culture, self worth, self love, love, loss, separationComment

The Known Unknown

While waiting for information about her funeral, I found out it was already taking place and I would miss it…

Sunny Side Down

I find it hard to reach out to my colleagues. In my Australian culture, grief is largely seen as a private affair, punctuated by long and absent silences. Needing a national ‘Are you OK’ day says a lot about us, and how hard it is to have conversations outside socially acceptable boundaries...

Embracing the Good in Goodbye

Moving away is an emotional process regardless of how close or far you’re heading. Take in all the emotions as they come. Feel like crying? Let the floods of tears come. Feel like laughing? Go for it!

MovingBy Solène Anglaret (From France, Norway, United States, United Kingdom & China. Living in Melbourne.)23 May 2018TCK TOWN, tck, TCK, goodbye, emptiness, confusion, loss, Norway, Shanghai, memories, London, China, panic attack, tuk tuk, Brazil, MelbourneComment

An Uncertain Delta

I met J in the flesh on a very cold January day in New York City. We were at the big Barnes & Noble in Times Square. I was only seventeen. I gave her my copy of Haruki Murakami’s South of the Border, West of the Sun as a first-meeting gift...

Better Late Than Never, FriendshipsBy Claire Rementilla (From New Jersey. Living in California)5 April 2017TCK TOWN, TCK, Better Late Than Never, new york, Murakami, new jersey, sisters, alien, United States, Demarest Hall, friendship, loss, goodbye Comments