Chasing The Blue Beyond

Blue Ocean / Hero's Journey / Sea Years / Ed Reif You Get There Faster by Plane, but Farther by Ship A life at sea, reframed as mini-retirements, probability, blue-ocean thinking, and the long game of becoming. Instagram 01 Alan Watts Dream Signal I am Alan Watts and so can you. "I wonder I wonder if you had the power to dream any dream that you wanted to dream. You would I suppose start out by fulfilling all your wishes- love affairs, banquets, wonderful journeys, music beyond belief...and after you've done that for sometime, you'd forget that you were dreaming.". View on Instagram Opening Signal There Is No YES in Yesterday There is no YES in yesterday and the longest day of the weak is someday. The secret of living your dream instead of your backup plan is starting. I have had all the disadvantages required for a successful start on the ...

See Image Show Text Lake Tahoe / Deja Blue / Visual Memory 50 Shades of Blue Some places are remembered by what happened there. Tahoe is remembered first by a color that seemed too clear to be ordinary. The First Impression When Color Becomes Memory The original field note begins with astonishment: altitude, clarity, state lines, cold water, fish, and the conviction that the lake deserved a return. But the detail that survives most vividly is blue. That matters because memory rarely preserves a place evenly. It keeps a signal: a color, a smell, a temperature, a horizon, a person, a sentence. Tahoe's signal is blue. Years later, Fair Isle would turn the same color into something more complicated—sea and sky changing hourly, weather erasing boundaries, distance becoming visible, and blue becoming less a postcard color than a measure of attention. We do not remember every detail of a place. ...

Being There: From Afghanistan War Zone to Myanmar's Digital Silence Skip to the story See Full Image Live missions · cultural contrasts · language under pressure Being There From Afghanistan War Zone to Myanmar's Digital Silence A Watershed Experience: Live Missions, Cultural Contrasts, and the Power of American English Follow the Journey Read the Stories Eastern Afghanistan Forward Operating Base The lottery ticket "I won the lottery" because as Bruce Springsteen says, "I was born in the USA" Birth, language, freedom—and the responsibility to use them. Four movements The Journey Timeline A line from active war-zone communication to digital silence, then back toward a harder look at freedom and the American Dream. Afghanistan Active War Zone Running live missions in Eastern Afghanistan Forward Operating Base. A watershed e...

Norway Field Notes · The Elixir Arrive Where We Started A voyage through Norway, psychological distance, and the strange clarity that returns whenever the ship leaves land behind. See Full Image Show Text Ordinary World The Call Answer the Call Foreign Land Trials The Elixir “We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.” T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land Norway is Alaska with Balls! These are words that at 20 years, the Old Age of Youth, I could only accept on blind faith, having no travel or life experience yet to prove them true. Home, in fact, was and is a place you want to leave ASAP, and set out on a new course...