He’s Just Nutty – Disney Creativity and Innovation Keynote Speaker

Taking the day off, home

Apple Watch fitness app — Challenging to explain how it’s easy to walk 4, 5, 6 miles just in our yard, just in one day. On top of the morning walk.

Taking the day off from blogging.

Yep.

That was the original plan.

Yeah, like that is ever gonna happen.

So i was dreaming up a creative way to kinda pull off an April Fools day prank.

As you have read, it never materialized.

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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.

Give me some good news, home

Mountain Goat in Glacier near Hidden Lake. No idea what Mountain Goats believe in except maybe a survival of the fittest type thing.

Good news, here’s that song, “Let Me Believe“.

Note: While the song is melancholy to my ear, the song’s title is perfect for today and tomorrow (and every day). Let me believe what i want to believe: HE is Risen.

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Shit you didn’t know, home

canadian license plate — A special family sign, randomly found during one of my frequent Canada trips for Disney Institute.

Publix grocery store — Today’s lesson was about the completely empty parking lot. When it officially opens, it will be “our” Publix.

father and son at apple store — We are Apple Store ‘frequent flyers’.

father and son at small town sign — Desire and courage. Like father and son. i think this photo is on the way to a remote Cub Scout camping trip.

Florida family enjoying backyard pool — Central Florida swim season starts on the vernal equinox.

Windermere Prep high school athletic field — Lower left: Dr Rawlings (English) and our Son (new to school, freshman) talking about the home football game’s low attendance.

Family gathering — A rare personal Family group photo, July 16, 2016.

Track workout — Each person has a different reason for being there at 7am on a hot, humid summer morning. Chapin on far right.

child in flowers — i write for my Family, particularly my Son and Wife.

school parade Dr Tom Marcy and Willow — Big ‘all-school” parade. Headmaster Dr Tom Marcy and his dog Willow. Our Son is walking behind Dr Marcy.

bear jam in National Park — Carrying a huge camera has been out of my comfort zone since our son was born. This is a ‘bear-jam’ on Going-to-the-Sun Road in Glacier.

little boy in hospital bed holding three teddy bears — Our son in a hospital bed holding three teddy bears. He had three colonoscopies between his 4th and 5th birthdays.

Glacier National Park and Stitch figurine — A favorite Disney character that goes everywhere i go, for a specific reason – love, Ohana.

Dear Son,

Shit you didn’t know…

How could you?

You were just a kid.

What you didn’t know is…

How being your dad inspired and guided everything i did (and why i did it)…

The ONLY reason i started blogging was to get writing practice to write and publish a book. The book was a 1979 self-promise to capture my life’s greatest lessons outside a classroom. It would serve as a life-guide for our children.

Blogging completed its writing-practice objective.

But something weird and unexpected happened.

i couldn’t stop writing.

Why?

i enjoy it and i couldn’t help myself.

Still enjoying it.

Still can’t help myself.

And here we are some 18 years later, never missing a day.

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HQ was a tent

college road trips — Our home was a tent. For real. 1984. Drove from Washington State to Walt Disney World. Began our Disney careers soon after.

Our temporary home for a while in Washington State was a small two-person tent.

We then drove cross-country, moved to Orlando and rented a “furnished” one-bedroom, roach-infested apartment in a crime-prone area.

Then our first starter home 30 miles from my Disney job. We had one car. i bicycled 30 miles to work daily.

Now we are the same two people yet living remarkably different lives.

Our home is less than one mile from Walt Disney World. Magic Kingdom fireworks visible 365 nights a year.

We are unable to attend Glen’s annual golfing get-together next month.

Why?

A scheduling conflict.

Paris to Normandy seven-night riverboat cruise and a week at Disneyland Paris.

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Showtime, home

Showtime.

Huh?

Showtime. It’s showtime.

Began saying it in my 40’s, shortly after starting a 25-year keynote speaking career at Disney Institute.

Now, 27 years later, still saying it.

The context now…

It’s time for the retirement show. The final season of life.

Prioritized priorities just reshuffled.

Exciting times.

Uncharted territory.

Adventure is out there.

Get moving.

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