Glacier – Page 2 – Disney Creativity and Innovation Keynote Speaker

Back 100 years ago

black and white poster of century old mountain road — Photo: Going-to-the-Sun Road in 1924, near Rising Sun marina.

Impossible is the only goal with the power to stir the human soul.
dad

Achievable goals have no power to stir the human soul.

Everyday life is my best and favorite classroom.

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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.

Finally to JGO

Finally made it to JGO (Jackson Glacier Overlook) in 2024.

Low rain clouds and cold temperatures can convert rain to snow.

11-second video: Virginia Falls. Deserted road. ‘Snow’ clouds.

32-second video: May 6, 2024. Snowing at Jackson Glacier Overlook.

Home-priorities health is wealth.
dad

We finished today at Montana Club restaurant with a wonderful meal.

Tomorrow morning we handle a Storage unit opportunity then on to Polebridge.

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GNP May arrival

Poster framed on a wall — My final Disney Pin Trading lanyard from 2014. Top right corner Walt is barely visible. We walk under this everyday, including on this morning’s walk to the Lyft in our driveway.

7-second video: Back for our first ever Spring trip.

Couple at mountain lake — 4pm today. Doesn’t look like Spring but today is cinco de Mayo.

Text thread — Shot this video minutes after getting Jody’s text.

8-second video: Inside joke to Jody Maberry.

Lean into the discomfort of doing mostly uncommon habits.
dad

First time experiences happen everyday.

We rarely pause to reflect that each new day has never happened before.

If you lean into this, jeff, you will see and think (and possibly do) things for the first time.

What a gift, huh?

If you aren’t present daily for this jeff, you default to your daily habits — you know, the stuff you think and do without thinking.

Same ‘ole, same ‘ole is its nickname.

Good news though. Your same ‘old, same ‘old is respectably present.

Enjoy today.

No doubt you will.

Note to self: Thank you for inspiring me to enjoy the path less traveled.

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Luxury canceled

Hotel reservation screen — First three weeks of June are cancelled. Why? Work.

Make grand plans. Adapt as necessary.
dad

Eye sight.

A necessity?

A right?

A gift?

A luxury?

Eye sight in one eye was cancelled the last eight months.

For the past three days, blindness is gone.

Sight restored.

Talk about a gift and a luxury.

WOW!

Blessed beyond measure.

Anxiety note: Yes, there’s a lingering anxiety about the lens failing to hold. And if it fails to hold, there’s been no talk of another sight option. It was easy to accept permanent blindness in the first 30 seconds of the initial blindness August 14, 2023. But now, with all the possibilities offered from corrective surgeries, it feels challenging to say goodbye to sight.

Bonus: A video from Covid lockdown 2020.

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C-ya real soon

Man in hat in stairwell — Always took the stairwell to and from DI HQ. This is the final exit trip. Next stop after this was Magic Kingdom Wardrobe, which was on my route home.

Painting of ships burning — Screenshot from Halloween Day, 2014. Starting at 5:00 PM October 31, 2014, it has been full on “burn the ships”.

Post it note — When a ‘tagline’ or marketing idea popped into my head, i found whatever i could and wrote it down. Later, i simply added it into Apple Notes.

i apply the Disney Way to my life, even “after Disney”.
dad

It’s been fun writing these blogs today while traveling home from our first Winter Glacier trip.

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