Glacier National Park – Disney Creativity and Innovation Keynote Speaker

McDonald Creek, home

Mountains — ’The Canyon’ (leading to Glacier) from our hotel room window.

14-second video: i do not watch much TV. However, the VP debate got added to my calendar.

This post is a the exact same content as lane8.org today, but in reverse order and substituting the word ‘talk’ for the original word ‘water’:

Talk is cool.

Talk is a tool.

Talk is functional.

Talk is life-sustaining.

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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 here.

Allergic to cold, home

Apple iOS update screen — Updated to iOS 18 this morning.

Apple Hikes and routes screen — Apple is, it seems to me, trying to make All Trails irrelevant.

Restaurant vision board on a wall — At dinner last night, i walked around the restaurant. This poster is in a side station, in view from ‘onstage’.

Me and Cheryl, we believe!

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Wait, you’re still in Glacier?, home

small town brick buildings with a mannequin — An iconic Main Street Kalispell, Montana feature. We always check to see if it’s still there.

newsroom building with window sign — Been reading the daily digital editions for years. In 2024, they abandoned print delivery. It was fun to actually see where their physical office is. It’s not far from the repelling ‘mountaineer ‘ on the brick Main Street building.

Disney's Stitch decal on truck — Could have easily missed this decal in the Grocery Store parking lot.

So much normalcy has been (appropriately) revealed as we spend much more time ‘in town’, far away from Glacier’s Lodges and trails.

There is nothing special, to me, about this region if you are landlocked to your street, your grocery store, and your daily routine.

People fly from all over the world to visit. Which is pretty flattering to locals. The tourists leave soon thereafter.

But if you aren’t on vacation, you likely will avoid the crowds (and drive). This then becomes a habit and a ritual.

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Still in Glacier, home

41-second video: A recap of the horizon and a great visual on Sperry Chalet.

i love the burden of a crazy idea.

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First full day back home, home

funny cash register sign — Love when we are surprised and delighted by an organization’s sense of humor. Dinner last night at Nite Owl’s Back Room.

a-frame parking lot sign — Columbia Falls Farmers Market moved from Nucleus Avenue to adjacent to the Catholic Church.

schematic of ancient tectonic plate shifts — Have begun an informal and unstructured education on Glacier’s rocks.

14-second video: Our fourth time this season seeing Drew Landry. Columbia Falls Farmers Market.

The longer you stay someplace, the easier it is to start feeling like a local.

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