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Coming Home: After Living in the Four Seas
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Coming Home: After Living in the Four Seas in Ottawa, ON
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Coming Home: After Living in the Four Seas is a reflective autobiographical journey spanning decades, continents, and inner landscapes. After years of living "in the four seas"—a Chinese expression for homelessness and displacement—the author searches for the meaning of home through travel, loss, survival, and human connection.
From early solo travels in Japan and Europe to academic and business pursuits in Switzerland and the United States, the narrative traces a life shaped by ambition, curiosity, and resilience. Success is followed by devastating financial collapse, betrayal, and personal loss, forcing the author to repeatedly start over in unfamiliar lands. Each return—whether to Asia, Southeast Asia, or memory itself—reveals that coming home is not merely geographical, but emotional and spiritual.
Interwoven with the author's own experiences are powerful stories of others who struggle with displacement: security guards, business leaders, domestic workers, and families fractured by modern economic and cultural forces. Together, these stories explore themes of identity, dignity, courage, and compassion in a rapidly changing world.
Ultimately, Coming Home is a meditation on survival and humanity—a testament to the idea that home is found not in possessions or success, but in understanding, kindness, and the courage to begin again.
Coming Home: After Living in the Four Seas is a reflective autobiographical journey spanning decades, continents, and inner landscapes. After years of living "in the four seas"—a Chinese expression for homelessness and displacement—the author searches for the meaning of home through travel, loss, survival, and human connection.
From early solo travels in Japan and Europe to academic and business pursuits in Switzerland and the United States, the narrative traces a life shaped by ambition, curiosity, and resilience. Success is followed by devastating financial collapse, betrayal, and personal loss, forcing the author to repeatedly start over in unfamiliar lands. Each return—whether to Asia, Southeast Asia, or memory itself—reveals that coming home is not merely geographical, but emotional and spiritual.
Interwoven with the author's own experiences are powerful stories of others who struggle with displacement: security guards, business leaders, domestic workers, and families fractured by modern economic and cultural forces. Together, these stories explore themes of identity, dignity, courage, and compassion in a rapidly changing world.
Ultimately, Coming Home is a meditation on survival and humanity—a testament to the idea that home is found not in possessions or success, but in understanding, kindness, and the courage to begin again.

















