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2019 Field Notes · Language, War and Return Being There From Bagram to Kuwait, Frankfurt, New Hampshire, Texas, Miami and Britain: a journey through military transit, language under pressure and the quiet intelligence of the countryside. See Video “English? Why do I have to learn that? I’m never going to live in England.” I am glad I did not follow that advice. Operational Thread Language opens the mission. Travel tests the threshold. Nature restores the operator. Ordinary World The Call Threshold Foreign Land Trials Revelation Return Elixir The Call American English as Mission Equipment The Defense Language Institute at Lackland Air Force Base brings foreign military ...

Ed Reif Archive / 2015 Happy Last Year Ninety-plus days at sea. Ninety-seven dispatches. One year that refused to stay still. Enter the archive See full image Show text Year Thesis The world became a wake. 2015 began near the Pacific, moved through Florida and the Caribbean, crossed into Europe, and kept going north until the map narrowed into fjords, islands and Arctic light. Cruise ship life was not a holiday from life. It became the way life was measured: departure, horizon, port, return. The archive records the 2015 Holland America Grand Voyage, the British Isles, the Baltic, Norway, London and Portsmouth. May and June alone produced 67 posts. The year did not pause long enough to become nostalgia until it was already over. 97 Published posts 67 Posts in May + June 90+ Days at se...