Orphans of the same womb
Diaspora Feelings™
As I mentioned in my last monthly roundup, I will be traveling during the month of November. I am currently in Charleston, South Carolina with Bear and the dorgs on a brief vacation, and then I immediately jet off to Los Angeles before hopping a plane to Seoul, South Korea with my mother and little brother.
For me, it will be the first time in three years — since the pandemic began — that I will be back. For my little brother, it will have been over a decade. He hasn’t been since he was a child, and he’s almost 27 now. As children, neither my brother nor I appreciated much about our heritage, but as adults I think we both feel a yearning to reconnect — to connect — to the land of our blood, if not our birth.
For the past several years I’ve slowly been…