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 ...

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...

May 2019-Mont St Michael Sailing past Britannia on The Solent in SOTON  Fear is for folks who don’t get out much “I know men who are healthier at fifty than they've ever been before, because a lot of their fear is gone.”  ―  Robert Bly Travel, at its best is creative destruction. In the wisdom of the moment,the power of a new language, food and culture and people are not problems to be solved but mysteries to be lived. The whole exercise has to be one of reconciliation.Lowering, removing or shattering the walls of misunderstanding which unduly separate we human beings, one from another. It's not so much about being understood as understanding. A lot of times, it's not you it's U.S. winning  the geographic lottery being horn in the USA. Why go anywhere else, eh? The Hunt For Happy- is the longing for repetition. The difference between hope and despair is a different way of telling our stories from the same facts. Pleasure is not happines...