In 2016 months before his son was born Scott F. Parker went to the Oregon coast to hold himself accountable for his first 35 years to take stock of his life and what hed learned so far to ask what he might have to offer his son. For ten days he walked south keeping a notebook. Being on the Oregon Coast is the product of that journey. The book offers a condensed and symbolic account of Parkers walk as his thoughts roam over such territory as nature solitude the creation of value and the art of hu