Rock & Roam

Ed Reif / Field Deck / Gibraltar / Skyelark / Offshore Sailing Club Ed Reif - Author, Adventurer, and Learning Architect Field-tested truths from bridge wings, flight lines, poker tables, and the Rock of Gibraltar - trimmed to signal. Pocket Field Deck - 404 Flip-Card Style Finding What Needs You Most "Your goal in life is to find out the people who need you the most, the business that needs you the most, the project and Art that needs you the most - because there's something out there just for YOU. You're never gonna be good at being somebody else." - Ed Reif Pocket Field Deck Original Lives, Field Tested Card I Don't Borrow Maps Imitation is a straitjacket. The terrain only answers to originals. Card II Find Your Crew Wrong crew, wrong voyage. The right people don't just want you - th...

Sussex by the Sea • Coastal Walking Adventures Back Home in Sussex From Arundel Castle to the White Cliffs, leaving no stone unturned along the pebble beaches, chalk cliffs, and coastal paths of southern England. The Sussex Coastline Experience The Walking Was the Writing I like writing about my travels, but I don’t like the paperwork. So I blog — literature in a hurry, right? Littlehampton in the Arun District of West Sussex, England lies on the English Channel on the eastern bank of the mouth of the River Arun. The Battle of Britain saw Luftwaffe raids on Littlehampton. Hard to imagine in these tranquil bucolic settings where I’ve been exploring the magnificent Sussex coastline on foot. Following John Muir’s wisdom — “With all the roads you take, make sure some of them are dirt” — I’ve been adding rocky-beach-coastal walks to the mix. Sussex by Sea all week, ave...

Living an Asymmetrical Life • Hotel @nyware • The Publishing Years Write? Right! Blogging is literature in a hurry. I like writing. I do not like the paperwork. So I built a machine that turns motion into manuscripts, field notes into books, and lived experience into a library. The Confession The Last Chapter Was Never a Place The sea years gave me horizons. The war years gave me consequence. The pandemic years gave me silence. The publishing years gave me a filing problem. I have always liked the writing part: the first sentence, the true sentence, the paragraph that finally stops pretending and tells the truth. What I do not like is the paperwork: metadata, categories, ISBNs, descriptions, links, covers, uploads, dashboards, sales pages, and all the little administrative barnacles that attach themselves to a book after the voyage. Blogging is literature in a hurry. Publishing is literature waiting in line a...