Glacier – Page 55 – Disney Creativity and Innovation Keynote Speaker

GNP Day 3, HQ

11-second video: saw the group pass by the room window.

6-second video: six total.

4-second video: make eye contact and smile…

Coffee hour is every night at 8:30pm. Rarely make it, in an effort to sleep longer before an early morning start. This is an exception…

Before taking a ‘front row’ window table, took this photo from the back. For posterity.

14-second video: snippet of Avery debuting her new song, written 24 hours earlier, “Marmot and Spray Foam”.

Avery, Blair, and Carrie are three returning staff. Eight staff total for 2022.

Mattie, from Los Angeles, is the Baker.

Lucas, from the Hudson Valley (NY), is the dish-washer.

Chris, from Indiana (maybe), is ‘Utility’ (she helps everywhere).

Shannon, Tennessee, is the Cook.

Brian, (assuming housekeeping) is super friendly.

Avery is the only full-time server this season.

Blair, Manager, is back for her fifth Summer.

Carrie, (assuming) housekeeping, is back for a second Summer. Met Carrie’s Mom, Ann, last September. Ann filled in for her daughter who had to leave three weeks early.

And, serendipitously, Kevin the proprietor, stayed the same night as me. He’s a rockstar in the historical chalet genre. Kevin is the grandson of the couple who saved Sperry and Granite Park Chalets from disappearing.

Note: video recorded the entire (4:24) performance and airdropped it to Avery. For posterity and because ’artists’ can learn a lot by seeing themselves in action.

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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.

GNP Day 2, HQ

First 2022 look at Wild Goose Island. It’s just above Sox’s head.

‘Elvis’ Stitch. Wild Goose Island. Elvis (the movie) came out June 2022. So why not Elvis Stitch?

A 14-hour reconnaissance day yielded great intel for the next two weeks before family arrives.

AT&T is available for first time ever.

Rising Sun has a cool one-mile St Mary Lake trail from the marina to the picnic area.

The one-hour drive from Logan Pass to West Glacier was delightful. The driver behind me gave me roughly the same space as i gave the car in front of me.

Got out at a traffic light to thank him.

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GNP Day 1, HQ

2-second video: A staple.

Ask family members over 50 to share life advice that their descendants in 100 years will see as wise.

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‘Twas the night before, at HQ

16-second video: Testing 1,2,3…

March 2020. Explaining some things, father to teenage son, and the notion of managing your life with a compass versus a clock. One is about purpose. One is about productivity.

‘Twas the night before, at HQ…GNP…

To me, Apple Watch isn’t wearing a watch.

Apple Watch is wearing a small computer/phone on your wrist.

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2020 flashback

15-second 2020 video: As the camera pans you immediately see Pollock Mountain, Mt Siyeh, and Piegan Mountain.

5-second 2020 video: Acknowledged the news of Covid-induced, 30,000 Cast Member layoff. Had no idea what to say, so i kept it simple and gut-level.

These two videos remind me of the September 30, 2020 Oberlin (8,200′) summit.

In the moment, it felt scarier than the close (15′?) Grizzly Bear encounter at Granite Park – the one where i had to turn my back on the Grizzly and continued walking.

A rare – and a first – sunset summit.

Just a quick jaunt up and back. Shoot a couple client videos from the summit. Then boogie on down to the car.

Without explanation, i got lost on the summit and couldn’t find my way down.

Have written about it before and will spare a rehash now.

What’s noteworthy in this post is the spectrum of emotions captured on these two videos. And, the emotions never captured on video that evening.

Duplicate Update: Starting tomorrow all five blogs become an “unthemed-canvas” of sorts. The normal mind-body-spirit-work-home theme goes on hiatus until this “couple-week project” concludes.

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