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Walking the bridges of London  and Tower was not a  business- as -usual moment but more a statement of resilience after the terror attack on London Bridge yesterday. Lightning does strike twice in the same place because there are always copycats but we went anyway.  No man is an island an we felt the loss of the two precious lives of these decent people. The go-to statement  after these events is "thoughts and prayers'' . Fair enough, but we did feel an imense sadness at two young lives snuffed out in their prime. We can do better. Millions of years of evolutionary gains as a species, and THIS. We need to put ourselves under  urgent review, and get back to love. Evcerything Sparkles Angels light our way as we walk towards Leister Square As we continued into the night we saw the Christmas trees and illuminated angels guided us day and night. We browsed the London Bridge Christmas stalls and had a moveable feast of great fo...

The only easy day is yesterday on a working ranch. I am reminded of The Law of The Farm, where there are no easy fixes, and where it takes 10 years to become an overnight success. The harder you work the luckier you get. The  core formative experiences that all young people should pursue are :  hard work  to appreciate the benefits of labor;  travel  to understand deprivation and want; the power of  reading ;the importance of  nurturing your body.  What better place to do it all then on a rural farm in Central Flroida View this post on Instagram Steak is my favorite animal-this #vegetarian weighs in at 1100 pounds! Eat some carbs bro A post shared by Ed Reif (@edreif) on Nov 10, 2019 at 8:44am PST We call them swamps-Here they are known as LAKES View this post on Instagram Gators and cows A post sh...

See Image Show Text Lake Tahoe / Deja Blue / Visual Memory 50 Shades of Blue Some places are remembered by what happened there. Tahoe is remembered first by a color that seemed too clear to be ordinary. The First Impression When Color Becomes Memory The original field note begins with astonishment: altitude, clarity, state lines, cold water, fish, and the conviction that the lake deserved a return. But the detail that survives most vividly is blue. That matters because memory rarely preserves a place evenly. It keeps a signal: a color, a smell, a temperature, a horizon, a person, a sentence. Tahoe's signal is blue. Years later, Fair Isle would turn the same color into something more complicated—sea and sky changing hourly, weather erasing boundaries, distance becoming visible, and blue becoming less a postcard color than a measure of attention. We do not remember every detail of a place. ...

View this post on Instagram One Track Mind- Reminds me of the frontier towns of Ketchikan and Skagway Alaska. A post shared by Ed Reif (@edreif) on Oct 31, 2019 at 10:57am PDT View this post on Instagram Cruise Control A post shared by Ed Reif (@edreif) on Oct 31, 2019 at 12:11pm PDT View this post on Instagram Mainstreaming A post shared by Ed Reif (@edreif) on Oct 31, 2019 at 12:15pm PDT