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Continue reading →: Global Nomads and TCKS- 3: Temporariness
Czeslaw Milosz on the mobile life: Throughout all my early childhood, rivers, towns and landscapes followed one another at great speed. My father was mobilized to build roads and bridges for the Russian Army, and we accompanied him, traveling just back of the battle zone, leading a nomadic life, never…
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Continue reading →: Global Nomads and TCKS- 2: Loss and the desire to hold things still
Andre Aciman on the exile’s loss and wish to hold things still: On a late spring morning in New York City four years ago, while walking on Broadway, I suddenly noticed that something terrible had happened to Straus Park. The small park, located just where Broadway intersects West End Avenue…
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Continue reading →: Global Nomads and TCKS- 1: Colin Firth: “Exiles…see everything with two pairs of eyes”
In the following series of posts I will be offering a variety perspectives on the experience of growing up as a “Global Nomad” or “Third Culture Kid.” I will present bits of wisdom on growing up in different cultures from such luminaries as Colin Firth, Czeslaw Milosz, Andre Aciman, Edward…
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Continue reading →: The Memoir-Writing Process: A most rewarding journey
Often, while in the possession of the demon called the memoir, there is a sense of a brain burning too bright, like Van Gogh’s. There have been moments—brief but flashy–when I thought it might drive me mad. Re-living the hard stuff can bring you close to the brink. And then…
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Continue reading →: The Memoir-Writing Process: Prone to fits of idiocy
Write a memoir at your hazard. It is a precarious activity. One that makes you prone to embarrassing yourself. All the awkwardness, the idiocy of youth come flooding back, and, believe me, you suddenly really are fourteen. You do stupid things, you act weird, because it’s like you’re half your forty-nine year-old…
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