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T-minus 5 days, home

What feels like the final purge of a lifetime collection of Disney papers is exciting.

Yet like i always say, everything takes longer than planned. And yes, there are exceptions.

So with only five ‘purging days’ left, not sure i’ll finish. Note, if all i was preoccupied with this week was purging, five days seems realistic.

But there’s another – dare i say more important – goal this week.

The more important goal?

France trip.

Two competing goals:

To enjoy the Disney paperwork purge, without rushing.
To savor the five full days remaining before we fly away.

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This website is about our HOME. This is the fifth of five daily, differently-themed blog posts about: (1) mind, (2) body, (3) spirit, (4) work, (5) home. To return to Mid Life Celebration, the site about MIND, click h ere.

Aging is cool, home

high school track runner — 1977, 200 meters, Spring Grove Area High School track. We competed at the middle school track. The original High School track was only 1/5-mile. And “cinders”. #iykyk

car window decal — The real adventure is creating personal vibrancy. Which implies aging gracefully, healthfully, spiritually, mentally, and letting go of “work”.

Aging.

Advantage or disadvantage?

As i blog, my energy and inspiration ebbs and flows.

My desire to leave a trail for our son never wavers.

Why?

Commitment.

To what?

To leaving a trail.

And now that i no longer “work for a living”, have new goals that i never had before.

i absolutely need to capture in writing this new life-stage.

Why?

If i don’t he’ll never have a first-hand (ring-side seat) take on what aging can be – if you dream of personal vibrancy.

Ps. Been dreaming about personal vibrancy since – i don’t know – maybe 1999?

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Blogging’s hidden blessing, home

Best Disney Keynote speaker — i have written blogs from the most unlikely places.

Disney expert and author jeff noel — Blogging from Disney’s Magic Kingdom First Aid building lobby.

Dear Son, to me, blogging’s hidden blessing is its love for the writer.

The cool blessing with blogging is that blogging has no expectation.

If you write only one blog post in your life, fine.

If you create a website and add a blogging software, but never write a single post, blogging says, “no problem”.

And if you write more personal blog posts than anyone in the world ever has, blogging says, “Oh, I never noticed”.

i love the infinite blessings of leaving a trail for you, Son.

In the big picture i will die with peace, with zero regrets on what i might have said.

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One day it will, home

mid life celebration, the book — Wrote this book as a life guide for our son in case something bad ever happened to me.

Repetition is the mother of all learning.

Mind, body, spirit, work, home…

One day it will make perfect sense.

i do not expect to live long enough to see it happen.

But if i do, it may be the greatest fruit of fatherhood.

And if i don’t, it’s still the greatest fruit of fatherhood.

i have faith in you, Son.

Always have.

Always will.

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The thing about everything, home

Woody from Toy Story graphic — We waited and waited. And waited some more. Eight years of waiting. Never saw an invisible disability coming.

The thing about everything is that everything takes longer than you plan.

Noteworthy, there’s an exception to nearly every rule.

Exceptions are rare.

We planned on having kids.

We started later than many, but thought that within a year of ‘starting to try’, we’d be parents.

We waited to ‘start trying’ until we moved into our second house, the one we have lived in for 35 years and counting.

We never planned on being married for 17 years before becoming parents. It took eight years (from ‘starting to try’), not one, to be blessed with our son.

So yes, nearly everything takes longer than planned.

My advice to myself, plan accordingly.

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