We'll See What Grows: Notes from Borrowed Ground

In 2024, I left the Philippines for California, carrying credentials, fifteen years of teaching, and the expectation that my life would continue more or less where it left off. It didn't.
We'll See What Grows is a collection of eleven essays about what happens in the gap - between who you were and who you're becoming, between the place you left and the place that hasn't yet become home, between the faith that brought you here and the silence that followed.
These essays are not about having answers. They are about learning to live without them: the meal that disappears in ten minutes without comment, the school gate where nobody knows your name, the father who wrote things down instead of speaking, whose diary is in a room you haven't been in since you left.
This is not a devotional. It is not an immigrant success story. It is something quieter - the record of a man trying to take root in borrowed ground, one ordinary day at a time.