Expats: A Meditation on Liminality

Another Tale from the Leeward Islands

“You're an expatriate…You spend all your time talking, not working. You are an expatriate, see? You hang around cafes.”- The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

Once upon a time I worked on a pleasant island filled with mostly pleasant people.

I think of them more often these days, not out of nostalgia, but out of the realization that a clue to future sp…