Small Town stuff – Disney Creativity and Innovation Keynote Speaker

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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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.

Captiva Day 4, home

Google Maps in Florida — There’s a minimum of four hours due to traffic and a rest stop.

business history story mounted on a wall — We loved the original. A short drive from Mitchell’s Sandcastles, all those years. The new location and new building is “Island Magic”.

7-second video: As fresh as it gets. Cheryl is around the corner viewing the OEC ‘history wall’.

We got to talk with one of the owners who we met on our first visit years ago. Thanked her for the miracle of her and her family rebuilding not once, but twice, in only two years.

Enjoyed a hearty breakfast and by 9:30 AM, we hit the road for home.

Ps. Hope to be back again soon.

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