ocean — Stories

Returning to the Ocean's Wave

I know how older people feel, when they return to a country abandoned long ago…

Fear, Moving, Water, AdulthoodBy Shannon Irby (From Ramstein, Tucson, Okinawa, Adana, D.C., San Antonio & Houston. Living in Okinawa.)16 January 2021tck, TCK TOWN, Third Culture Adult, third culture kid, beach, ocean, childhood, resilienceComment

Was It All a Dream?

The fog was heavy over the city, and the morning doves softly sang their tunes repeatedly…

GoodbyeBy Molly Kaitlin (From Peru, Costa Rica, Minnesota & Florida. Living in Tennessee)29 April 2020Lima, Peru, Dream, Nostalgia, familiar, TCK TOWN, third culture kid, Third Culture Adult, ocean, sadness, memoryComment

Words By The Sea

On the silted shores of that Kashmiri lake from my childhood - my shoes slowly ruining in the slush of snow, mud and plum blossoms - I stood beside the houseboat we were staying in (which once hosted Henry Kissinger). That was the month Indira Gandhi was voted out and my whole family got stuck in India.

Sawwah By The Sea

Your eyes watched me faithfully, fingers carefully following the dips and turns of my imperfect singing, matching the patchwork of words to the rhythm of music.

Thank You, RelationshipsBy Farah Beaini (Living in the land of the Kulin nation)26 January 2019TCK TOWN, tck, TCK, third culture kid, mountain, sea, ocean, holiday, summer, 2013, sun, skin, water, guitar, music, songs, sing, moment, human connection, connection Comment

Warming Hearts, Warring Worlds

You wonder whether you have traded one death sentence for the next as the engine fails and the old boat moans under the angry tumbling of ocean...