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Run of the World – Original Song

Run of the World is an original song written by Hannah Mathews and performed by Hannah and Moriah Mathews. Hannah and Moriah are TCKs, and this song is about the mobility and transition of an international lifestyle, and how it impacts an understanding of “home”.

Lyrics:

Run of the World

Will you hold on to me
When my soul is giving up?
Will you stay by my side
When my mind slides past midnight?
And I know that I am asking
For more than I can give
But I’ve never had enough
To settle down

Cuz I’m on the run from something
But I don’t know what
Like a hound from hell
Baying on my heels
And I never get away
But it never catches up
I keep letting go
And it keeps me moving on

Will you whisper in my ear
That the world is all the same?
Will you hold my love for ransom
If I choose to walk away?
And I know that I’ve been traveling
Far and farther away
But it seems now that I’ve gone
Nowhere at all

Cuz I’m on the run from something
But I don’t know what
Like a hound from hell
Baying on my heels
And I never get away
But it never catches up
I think it’s using satellites to trace me

Maybe you could try that
Maybe it might work
All I ask is if you find me
That you help me find myself

Cuz I’m on the run from something
But I don’t know what
Like a hound from hell
Baying on my heels
And I never get away
But it never catches up
I race for greener grass
But all the earth’s the same garden

I never get away
But it never catches up
Maybe I could call this home
After all

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TCK Training

About Lauren Wells, the founder and director of TCK Training:
“Lauren is the Founder and Director of TCK Training and author of Raising Up a Generation of Healthy Third Culture Kids and The Grief Tower. An Adult Third Culture Kid (ATCK) who spent her teenage years living in Tanzania, East Africa, Lauren uses her personal experience and education in Child Development to support families who are learning to navigate life in a new culture. She has worked with over 1,000 parents and TCK caregivers and has trained staff from over 60 organizations. Lauren lives in South Carolina with her husband and two children.”

The mission of TCK Training is to come alongside parents and sending entities for the purpose of equipping, encouraging, and empowering them to raise up healthy Third Culture Kids.

Check out the website!

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tck documentary

A TCK Documentary – Alaska to Africa

A TCK documentary exploring the world of seven siblings in Ghana, as they adjust to a new culture and wrestle with the questions about home and belonging that all third culture kids can relate to.

Featuring the Gelatt family, missionaries through ABWE. Filmed in November of 2018. No profit is being made from this film.

Soundtrack created by Spencer Parkhurst – check him out on SoundCloud here.

Filmed and edited by Hannah Mathews – check her blog out here.

Watch more documentaries about TCKs here.

By CulTuremiKs, ago

All The Light We Cannot See

It’s time again, time to 
step out of one world into
another, and we are seasoned
travelers by now.
Gathering up our passports,
charging cords, exchanged currency,
luggage tags, and pens for immigration…
we know how to do this.

So I stand in yet another line,
a nylon strap tugging on my shoulder,
new sneakers rubbing on new socks,
with the echoes of “goodbye” still
ringing in my ears and my heart and
I remember that
If your same blood doesn’t run 
in the arms and legs of the person you’re 
next to, you can’t 
trust anything.

After all, no one else
ever stays.

Here we go again…
my sister nudges me to move
forward and my brother steps 
off the edge of grounded concrete
and my parents murmur about
forgotten things one last time.
We know how to do this.

Eleven hours later all the light
we cannot see rises with the sun behind us
above a country we no longer belong
to, but we link arms – united against 
this brand new world to navigate.

by Ghanaperu

By CulTuremiKs, ago