He’s Just Nutty – Page 2 – Disney Creativity and Innovation Keynote Speaker

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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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.

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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Still cleaning up and hoping, home

Still cleaning up and hoping.

Work falls to the fifth of five priorities.

Why?

Because we work for two reasons:

Sustenance
Contribution (if we’re lucky, and present)

So…

Sustenance has been baked in, by design, for the past four decades.

Contribution, never ends.

Adventure awaits.

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Nine clouds, ten clouds

Nine clouds, ten clouds?

How many did you notice?

Two days ago?

Last week?

How long do you watch them?

Why do you watch them?

Almost always, the clouds are moving.

i’ve found that random glances never reveal movement.

Stationary clouds are a fallacy.

Yet…

Stationary clouds, i think, are a stereotype that creates lifelong cloud-watching avoidance.

No two days worth of skies in our lifetime will be identical.

What a gift of never-ending variety, compliments of the Cosmos.

Ps. ‘Scuse me while i kiss the sky.

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Spring Break 2026

We’re not on spring break.

But the ‘go with the flow’ lifestyle i envision is predominantly “Spring Break’ DNA.

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