Chasing The Blue Beyond

Share Fair Isle · Go to the Fear Wild Swimming: Arctic & Shetland Adventure The flight was cancelled. The weather had the final word. What looked like a lost day became a different kind of crossing — into cold water, breath, fear, and the clarity that arrives when there is nowhere else for attention to go. Field Note Outdoors Is In Outdoors is in, the in to my sane. Fear does not come to me. I go to it — the icy waters of the North Atlantic. This is not really a story about swimming. It is about the instant the body says no before the mind has decided anything. Cold water makes that hesitation impossible to intellectualize. You breathe, assess, enter — or you do not. Fair Isle had already begun teaching us that plans were provisional. The rock pool made the lesson physical. When the Plan Disappears Weather Hold, Ice Water, Clarity Flights were on weather hold. The wind was picking up. The ori...

The Geography of Bliss · When the World Stopped, Attention Started · Weather Replaced the Clock · Remoteness Became Clarity · Fair Isle Became a Compass See Video Fair Isle · When Plan B Became the Compass The Geography of Bliss We went looking for another destination. Fair Isle changed the definition of destination itself. FI The Geography of Bliss: Life at Sea Share Fair Isle Podcast · Finding Paradise When Plans Change Play 0:00 / --:-- 1.0x Save Share Powered by Share Fair Isle Your browser does not support the audio element. “Bliss was never a pin on the map. It was what became visible when the noise fell away.” “It was the best of vibes. It was the worst of vibes. We waited for 2020 to have that perfect vision. Nobody could predict what they’d be seeing and doi...

The YOUniverse Your Story Matters Where your wishbone becomes your backbone — and experience stops being something that happened to you and becomes a compass for what happens next. Share Fair Isle Podcast How Remote Is Remote? Ed, Sarah and Skyelark live off grid in Shetland. Your browser does not support the audio element. There are exactly two things that determine how our lives turn out: the quality of our decisions and luck. But there is a third thing that determines what those events eventually mean: the story we make from them. Our lives are filled with digital soundtracks and fleeting sound bites, but the story they tell belongs to someone else. What is deeply personal is universal, yet what gives our lives meaning and gravitas is our own Autobiography . Telling our own story is not s...