USA-Loving The Art In Myself And Me In The Art
Hawaii · Saint Louis · Saudi Arabia · Caribbean · South Pacific
Answer the CallShovel Sunshine
When the weather freezes the story, memory becomes propulsion and the South Pacific starts looking like a plan.
The Operating Principle
Swim Out to It
If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.
Waiting is one form of travel. Movement is the better one.
The line turns arrival into responsibility. The ship may be late, distant, or imaginary. The traveler still has to leave the shore.
Roll Video
Swim Out to the Ship
The Ed Reif Brand
Handing Out the Sacrament of Faith
The Mother Teresa of the cruise-ship art-auction world: turning water into wine, handing out the sacrament of faith, and building the Ed Reif brand one happier encounter at a time.
My wish is that everyone who meets me leaves a little bit happier.
The point was not sainthood. It was atmosphere. Make the room lighter. Give people a reason to believe the next port might matter.
The World as Proof
Faith with a Hawaiian Horizon
Saint Louis Winter
Time to Shovel Sunshine
It was cold in Saint Louis.
The wind showed me how close to the edge I was. I needed the weather to change so I could start a conversation—or write something on the blog again.
When climate closes the imagination, memory becomes emergency heat.
The Weather Equation
Cold Air + Warm Memory + Forward Motion = Shoveled SunshineDecember Bearings
Three Winters, Three Climates
Warmth as location and state of mind.
Desert weather replacing winter entirely.
A tropical calendar becoming a personal standard.
December 2008
Somewhere in the Desert
December 2007