Leaving a trail for our son – Page 20 – Disney Creativity and Innovation Keynote Speaker

Sunday, funday, home

Forky in Glacier National Park — Have fun as you attempt impossible things.

Omar Nour, TEDxAUK speaker one. Here, he’s having fun with Jack during our group AV check.

Disney fun — Attention to detail and a ton of fun.

Disney Keynote Speaker — This was so much fun. Needed a security badge for a two days.

Disney Keynote Speakers Orlando — Energetic and fun. University of Iowa Healthcare client . Sue’s taking my picture so i decided to take hers. Mission accomplished. Fun!

Lucille Ball quote — It takes courage to be crazy, silly, boundary-pushing, legendary, funny.

Infant flipping the middle finger to photographer — As funny as it is sickening, no? Jokes are meant to poke fun. Don’t read into this photo. It’s simply unexpected, hence funny.

senior athletes on a track — Even at 93, Julian Myers (left) still has fun competing against the younger 80-somethings.

Tigger, Pooh, and a disney fan — Mostly, i like to have fun.

Also A Cub Scout Dad & Decently Funny — Also a Cub Scout Dad (2000’s) & somewhat-decently funny.

Only recently, like in the past week, discovered you can search with keywords and phrases in my massive media libraries.

When ‘fun’ is also ‘cool’, it’s surprising and delightful.

.hpm

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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.

Two-week countdown, home

Blog category: Blog stuff

First off, how’s that category title when it comes to originality?

Blog stuff…

Only a genius could come up with that.

Ps. That last sentence made me laugh when i immediately thought of writing it in this post. Then, nearly as immediate, i thought it was dumb. Finally, it was an easy decision: Keep it and see if it makes you laugh again on the day this post publishes (March 17, 2026, btw).

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Do what you can

Facebook update screenshot — January 13, 2026. Two days ago. Cattle Baron Supper Club in Babb, Montana. Been a bunch of times. Devastating loss.

We can’t change what happened to the Cattle Baron Supper Club.

We can’t send enough money to lessen the pain from what happened to the Cattle Baron Supper Club.

But we can think of the family continuously, and pray for the family continuously, and give thanks continously that no humans were injured.

Even the smallest gestures trump an absent gesture.

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Doubtful, home

social security application confirmation — This is such a remarkable milestone, here’s a second “completed” photo.

Doubtful there will ever be a desire to lower our standards.

What standards?

The ones we have for the community we live in.

Between the Orange County Code Enforcement guidelines and our Property Owners Association’s specific, uncomplicated, and modest requirements, the standards (when enforced) are all anyone needs to live peacefully. Respectfully.

Doubtful any community will ever see 100% respect and compliance.

Note: We have long been planning for a creative middle-ground. Life is good, even when it’s not excellent. Thank you Universe.

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i knew them all

head in the sand mural on wall — Sometimes life overwhelms our home life…our job is to mitigate this each time it happens.

i knew them all…

Every one of our Property Owners Association residents…

Ever.

i’ve known them all.

Starting with the original ‘settlers’ (pre-1990)…

Abney, Vercammen, Rennells, Powell, Spore, Donkel, Renaldo, Nguyen (?, the ‘farmers’ with the pond).

And everyone since 1990.

We have always been a lowkey, pleasant community.

State Road 535 widened from two to four lanes between 2008-2011.

Either side of 2015 the future caught up with our community and we never collectively rallied around proactive, modern-day thinking.

The pressures of an attractive location near Walt Disney World, plenty of new housing and new infrastructure, year-round palm trees and sunshine, plus a never-ending exposure to global tourists….

Tension.

Ambition.

Fear.

It’s tested and grown my creativity, resolve, and optimism.

We will flourish again. Sooner rather than later.

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