Share Fair Isle- The Geography of Bliss: We were living on Britain's most remote inhabited Island with our dog Skyelark during The Global Pandemic (Skyelark MacDoglet) Hardcover – July 22, 2025

During the global pandemic, while the world locked down, Ed Reif, Sarah Kennedy, and their Scottish Terrier Skyelark did something no one could have predicted: they moved to Fair Isle — Britain’s most remote inhabited island, 24 miles from the nearest land, population 45 — and stayed.What followed was not an escape. It was a transformation.Fair Isle is three miles long, one and a half miles wide, and surrounded by the North Atlantic in every direction that matters. It holds 45 people, 1,200 sheep, 20,000 puffins, one famously solitary bull named Carlos — and, for two extraordinary years, one Scottish Terrier who appointed herself Deputy Sheep Warden, Puffin Patrol Officer, and unofficial island nurse’s shadow.Told through the lens of Joseph Campbell’s hero’s journey, Share Fair Isle: The Geography of Bliss follows three protagonists through their parallel transformations: Sarah Kennedy, who chose service as the island’s nurse during a global health crisis; Ed Reif, the instructional designer and world-traveller who became shepherd, writer, and Time Millionaire; and Skyelark MacDoglet, the Scottish Terrier who became La Reina del Perro — earning her crown not in a kennel but in the oldest bullring in Spain.This book delivers:• The Geography of Bliss — why bliss is a practice, not a destination, and how a remote island taught three beings to find it anywhere• The Time Millionaire Philosophy — proven not in theory but in mackerel feasts, blizzards, and nine o’clock amber light• The Power of Myth made literal — Campbell’s hero’s journey as lived experience: threshold crossings, ordeals, coronations, and the return with the elixir• Canine intelligence in the field — the science and philosophy of what a Scottish Terrier knows that humans are still learning• Island life without the romance — cancelled flights, February blizzards, Carlos, puffin diplomacy, and the particular wisdom of 45 people who chose the edge of the worldFor readers of H is for Hawk, The Salt Path, A Year in Provence, and The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry — but occupying a lane none of them fills: the pandemic-era discovery that the most radical act of 2020 was choosing to be somewhere completely and paying attention to it with everything you had.“The geography of bliss is not a place. It is a practice. And once learned — in the cold, in the company of sheep and a magnificent dog — it travels with you wherever you go.” Read more