Simplicity and sophistication aren’t always together

Montreal's Notre Dame Cathedral entrance door
Montreal’s Notre Dame Cathedral entrance door.

 

Montreal's Notre Dame Cathedral interior
Montreal’s Notre Dame Cathedral remarkable interior.

 

Using Apple’s Pages application in iCloud Drive, whatever i do on one device automatically changes on all my devices. This is extraordinary, even though we have come to expect this from Apple. It appears simple and elegant to the user, but Apple’s backend effort has to be extraordinary.

 

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Seven Summits Expeditions, Frank G. Wells

Magic Kingdom Main Street Cast Member Windows
My favorite window, because of it’s obscurity.

 

Florida wild flowers near Disney World
A little patch of barely noticeable heaven in the very center.

 

Florida wild flowers near Disney World
In the one mile stretch of roadway in our neighborhood, this is the only place to see this.

 

Seven Summits Expeditions, Frank G. Wells. That’s what the first photo captures in the Magic Kingdom Disney-legend tribute window.

Frank Wells was the original choice for CEO to replace Ron Miller (Walt’s son-in-law) in 1984. As the story has been shared with me, Frank turned it down, because he said Disney needed a creative person at the helm. Frank told his suitors that if they got the young Paramount Studios executive, Michael Eisner, as the new Disney CEO, Frank said he would be willing to be the COO.

Ten years later, Frank was tragically killed in a Heli-skiing accident.

Unknown to most Disney Cast Members is this story and the back story of Frank and a mountain climbing partner and their attempt to summit the highest peak on each of the seven continents. They summited six peaks, but did not make it to the top of Mount Everest.

That’s the significance to the window.

i had the privilege to spend two-and-a-half years (1988-1990) working in a Disney World office that handled Michael and Frank’s Orlando itinerary every time they visited. i even got to meet and interact with both of them.

 

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Travel home to Walt Disney World

Being organized means weird things sometimes. Like why do i always carry these two things in my backpack?

 

Mid Life Celebration and Disney Legacy
These two are always in my backpack.

 

Mid Life Celebration book
The same rocks look different when wet or dry.

 

Walt Disney Legacy Award nametag
Dream • Create • Inspire

 

Live and learn.

Forget.

Repeat.

Live and learn.

Taking a late flight home, there’s a reason i stopped doing it.

While it was nice to have a 2pm Montana departure, we arrived home after midnight. In bed at 2am.

Feeling it this morning.

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Village Inn at Apgar

Lunch in the rental car after a few hours of hiking. Then check in at The Village Inn at Apgar.

 

Glacier Park lunch
Lunch after our hike. In the Logan Pass Visitor Center parking lot.

 

Glacier Park lunch

 

View of Lake McDonald from Village Inn at Apgar
View from our room at Village Inn on the shore of Lake McDonald.

 

View of Lake McDonald from Village Inn at Apgar

 

View of Lake McDonald from Village Inn at Apgar

 

View of Lake McDonald from Village Inn at Apgar

 

View of Lake McDonald from Village Inn at Apgar

 

View of Lake McDonald from Village Inn at Apgar

 

View of Lake McDonald from Village Inn at Apgar

 

View of Lake McDonald from Village Inn at Apgar

 

View of Lake McDonald from Village Inn at Apgar

 

View of Lake McDonald from Village Inn at Apgar

 

View of Lake McDonald from Village Inn at Apgar

 

View of Lake McDonald from Village Inn at Apgar

 

View of Lake McDonald from Village Inn at Apgar

 

View of Lake McDonald from Village Inn at Apgar

 

Writing using the iPhone Notes app is an interesting way to do work that matters.

No Internet required. No tablet, no pen. Lean.

Unencumbered.

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Lake McDonald Lodge Cabin

Glacier National Park Lodge firewood
Firewood is plentiful.

 

Glacier National Park Lodge firewood
Firewood doesn’t cut itself.

 

Glacier National Park Lodge firewood
Firewood doesn’t stack itself either.

 

Ever get so much done by 2pm that you can call it a day?

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