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Every time I walk into this port town, HMS Warrior- the first armor-plated, iron-hulled warship(1859) is right in the harbor standing tall and proud, a constant reminder of the age of naval dominance and the legacy  of  empire and seapower.  It  is in the misty salt water air too.   HMS Victory, Admiral Horatio Nelson's  namesake ship docked at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard-the Royal Navy's most famous warship,  hard to believe that you can fit 800 sailors on deck.

2018 Hero's Journey Redux · Eastbourne, England Beachy Head: Summit All Up Nice The hero returns to the United Kingdom, leaves London's theatre behind and climbs to the edge of England—where ancient chalk, hard wind and the English Channel reduce a complicated life to one clean horizon. Return chapter South Downs Sea years January 2018 See Full Image Show Story Previously in the journey London gave me the language. Beachy Head removed the words. The city had been a stage: entrances, museums, music halls, Shakespeare and crowds. Eastbourne offered the opposite production—grass, chalk, weather and open water. The Hero's Journey had returned to the United Kingdom, but not to the same country I first entered at twenty. I had crossed oceans since then. I had learned to read harbors, gangways, weather and departure boards. Now the road climbed out of Eastbourne toward a summit where England seemed to stop abruptly a...

 Location. Location. Isolation. Try your close-to-home outdoor spaces Mother Nature is not an amenity—it’s a necessity. There is certainly enough of green spaces, thanks to the generous amounts of rainfall we get. Father (Clock) Time has been usurped by Pandemic Event Time-we can't change the content and stroryline but we can 'gamify our relationship to it and step away and OUTSIDE our worries.   To be uncertain about these times is uncomfortable, to be certain, ridiculous. Embrace the uncertainty. Be intentional about the distress.Hang out with it.  Don't let the times hijack your brain. After all, you cannot argue with the present. That's the miracle- a shift in thinking. Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. What we resist persists, and wasting cognitive energy on this pandemic is, well, a waste. Covid anxiety hooks you by picking a topic that is personal to us but now universal. That’s how it creates doubt and resistance in us W...

UK / Ireland / Pandemic Memory / Before Covid Covid-19 And The Stiff Upper Lip A Journey Through Pandemic Times and UK Memories See Full Image Show Text Opening Signal Not Talking About the Pandemic Was Like Denying Gravity Back in The U.K. after a visit to Ireland. Not talking about The Pandemic is like denying gravity exists. That ostrich approach of sticking our collective head in the sand will not delay or deny the medical catastrophe, the logistics nightmare and the financial Armageddon that each of us experience in our own idiosyncratic ways. Call it malignant optimism, but the shared hallucination that it is "just the flu" is junk science. What doesn't kill us makes us stronger but make no mistake about it: This virus can kill. It doesn't have a brain, but we do. Careers are on hold, people are in limbo, and there are only two ways this epidemic will end: Medically, probably never. Socially, when...

Jamaica Caribbean Experience - Falmouth & Beyond 🇯🇲 Jamaica Experience Falmouth & Beyond - Caribbean Soul 🌴 One Love, One Heart 🚢 Colonial Falmouth The new(er) port of Falmouth looks so colonial and British Empire authentic. Sailed here several times this decade, with Royal Caribbean, MSC and like today, Disney. Each visit reveals new layers of this historic Caribbean gem, where colonial architecture meets modern cruise infrastructure in perfect harmony. 🍺 Just Do It...Later Swish... with Red Stripe Beer ...