Chasing The Blue Beyond

See Video Share Fair Isle · The Geography of Bliss The Working Island The Good Shepherd Loaded for Delivery On Fair Isle, rural tradition is not scenery. It is working infrastructure: sheep, weather, local knowledge, willing hands, and the moment a visitor stops watching island life and begins carrying part of the load. Working Island Sheep Roundup Skyelark Ordinary World The Call Answer the Call Foreign Land Trials The Elixir There’s no place like work when you are home on the range. I was not volunTOLD . I volunteered to help with the roundup and loading — a pleasure to assist with the precious cargo, now ready for market and sale. ...

Dogs That Work — Ed Reif Field Notes · Working Dogs Dogs That Work From the sheep fields of Fair Isle to a forward operating base in Afghanistan — purpose, given four legs. Ed Reif In life expectancy, a single day for us is a week for them. Maybe they know this. Maybe that's why they make every day count. Ed Reif On-the-Job Training Purpose-driven paws — mush. Many dogs are simply someone's best friend. Others clock in. A working dog carries natural instinct, honed by patient training toward a single task. The kennel clubs sort certain breeds into a working group — herding, tracking, guarding — but the real curriculum happens in the field. That includes our Scottish Terrier. A farm dog by blood, here on Fair Isle she's serving her internship in sheep. Call it OJT. On-the-job training, with the whole island for a classroom. Service dog...

2020 · Caribbean / Yellowstone / Fair Isle Month 14 of 2020 What a year. Perfect vision became survival vision, the ships stopped moving, and the road to the edge of the world opened instead. Caribbean Sailaway Pandemic Pivot Land Yacht Yellowstone Fair Isle See Full Image Show Story ED Audio Briefing Disney Cruises to Fair Isle Survival Your browser does not support the audio element. Listen · Reflect · Enter The year did not end. It changed units. January measured distance in nautical miles. June measured it in fuel stops. December measured it in sheep, wind and the number of people sharing an island. We waited for 2020 to deliver perfect vision. Instead, it taught us to see what remained when the plans disappeared. Sail Stop Drive Isolate Adapt ...

Fair Isle: Life at the Edge of the World 🏝️ Fair Isle: Life at the Edge of the World Where time moves to its own rhythm 🌅 Fair Isle - Where every sunset feels like a lifetime achievement Reflection 💭 Life's Worthy Accomplishment To not have entirely wasted one's life seems to be a worthy accomplishment, if only for myself. Here on Fair Isle, surrounded by endless sea and sky, the measure of a life well-lived becomes beautifully simple. "To not have entirely wasted one's life seems to be a worthy accomplishment, if only for myself." ...