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Sea Years / Maritime Field Notes Trials The Jones Act & Laws of the Sea The rules of the sea become real when the gangway closes, the ship sails, and the next port is no longer yours to choose. See Full Image Kings Point Pride of America STCW Passenger Vessel Services Act Flags of Convenience Show Text Ordinary World The Call Answer the Call Foreign Land Trials The Elixir Visiting the United States Merchant Marine Academy at Kings Point, I ran a few laps around the track. My pace was like Clapton's “Layla” — the slower, raw, heartfelt unplugged version. Mission accomplished. I had been a one-man National Geographic on that everywhere trip. Cancel m...

Hollywood Field Notes · LOST · Hawaii Answer the Call You Get Paid for the Waiting (Acting’s Free) From earning a SAG card to standing in for Terry O’Quinn on LOST : a field report about resemblance, relationships, technical patience, and saying yes when the island calls. Enter the Story How I Got My SAG Card Ordinary World The Call Answer the Call Foreign Land Trials The Elixir Actors do not get paid to act. They get paid to wait—and to be ready when waiting suddenly becomes the scene. The path from Hollywood to Haleiwa was not a straight line. It began with the SAG-card chase, continued through years of production relationships, and arrived in November 2007 when paradise became a workplace. As Terry O’Quinn’s stand-in and body double, I stepped into John Locke’s light before Terry stepped into the frame. The audience never sees that work. The camera depends on it anyway. The Operating Lesson Availability is a craft. Film work rewa...

In 1994 On Board The SS Constitution My first extended stay In  Paradise was on America Hawaii Cruises. I just wanted a different experience, and I took the first job I could get, which was a deck hand. We sailed for seven  days and each day we had a port of call. Starting off with an embarkation day at Aloha Towers in Honolulu, then a sea day, and we hit Kauai, Maui(Lahina and Kahalui) Hilo and Kona. It was the best!  The weather was always temperate and I had the most energizing and spirtually uplifting time, enjoying the weather, the people, the food, the culture and the OHANA-family atmosphere of Hawaii. I have been hooked ever since on these beautiful islands. The definition of ecstasy is that you are not doing your ordinary everyday ho-hum existence. Shoveling sunshine in Hawaii beats a day at the office.

Aloha Spirit 🌺 Aloha from Pele and The Huna! 🌋 IKE – "The world is what you think it is." 🌈 KALA – "There are no limits." 💫 MAKIA – "Energy flows where attention goes." 🌀 MANAWA – "Now is the moment of power." 💖 ALOHA – "To love is to be happy with." Watch the hands, they tell a story."They have hands?" Vincent The Dog – Guardian of the beach “LOST” – a journey begins where the trail disappears. Hawaiian Audio Player 🌺 Huna, Hollywood, and the Open Ocean The Ed Reif Story Your browser does not support the audio element. 🌴 Aloha Vibes 🌊 Wisdom...

Big Island Adventures - Shoveling Sunshine in Paradise THE BIG ISLAND SHOVELING SUNSHINE "My First Extended Stay In Paradise" Kona Coffee & Blue Hawaii Kona has coffee; and where there is coffee there is caffeine, and where there is caffeine, there is Starbucks and the opportunity to do stupid things faster. Kona's ocean water almost always reflects a blue Hawaii that leaves me thinking "Where is the ukulele and Elvis sightings?" "American coffee is 'dirty water' and Instant coffee takes too long. Kona, however, is 'Ono'. Tastes good." ...