Layag: Coming home

A short reflection and poem from my time away

It’s been a little over a year since I packed my things to live in Dumaguete. And I wanted to take this moment look back at the time since. What’s changed, what’s stayed the same, what’s become clear.

In my younger years, backpacking through Asia for weeks / months at a time schooled me on the ways of different cultures in this world, and on my own incli…