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The Show Must Go ONline

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Goring-by-Sea · Pandemic Event Time · Driving / Walking / Cycling Trials Location. Location. Isolation. When the calendar stopped behaving normally, the neighborhood became the destination and Mother Nature became a necessity rather than an amenity. See Full Image Show Text Ordinary World The Call Answer the Call Foreign Land Trials The Elixir Close to Home Mother Nature Is Not an Amenity Try the outdoor spaces closest to home. Mother Nature is not an amenity. It is a necessity. There was certainly no shortage of green space, thanks to the generous amounts of rainfall. Father Clock Time had been replaced by Pandemic Event Time. We could not change the content or storyline, but we could gamify our relationship to it and step outside our worries. To be uncertain abou...

Passengers This Time: Hong Kong to Southampton on the Other Side of the Ship

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Reprint from 2018 World Cruise Queen Mary 2 / Two Lives at Sea / 2016–2018 The Long Way Home Passengers This Time In 2018, while I waited for the security clearance that would take me to work in Afghanistan, Sarah and I boarded Queen Mary 2 in Hong Kong. After years shaped by working at sea, we crossed to Southampton as passengers this time. See Full Image Show Text The Unexpected Interval Between the Crew Door and the Passenger Gangway My next destination was supposed to be Afghanistan. First, the security clearance had to catch up with the assignment. Bureaucratic time opened an ocean-sized interval, and Sarah and I stepped into it. We joined Queen Mary 2 in Hong Kong and sailed west to Southampton. The geography was spectacular, but the deeper story was the change in role: after the working-at-sea years, the ship was no longer a workplace we helped operate. For once, it carried us. ...