Peace – Disney Creativity and Innovation Keynote Speaker

Praying for Earth, home

heart shaped stone — In the name of love, i think the way i do. Photo: Glacier National Park on a trail or shoreline (can’t remember which).

Artemis II is returning to Earth after sending humans farther from Earth than ever before in history.

Artemis II traveled around the Moon and lost contact (it was planned for) with NASA for a brief period.

Extraordinary accomplishment in human history.

And as i type this (4:30pm April 7, 2026) we are three hours and 30 minutes from our President’s Iranian-peace-deal deadline.

May God (and the cosmos, like it even cares) have Mercy on humanity.

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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.

Home mantra

Home mantra…

You are the CEO of You, Inc.

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Home presence

12-second video: It’s hard to look away from something so mesmerizingly beautiful. But if you do, you won’t miss the encore behind you…

mountain sunset — Simply turn around 180-degrees. An easy half-spin. How amazing is this? Here’s a video of the same moments…

10-second video: Learned this presence on Sanibel Island decades ago. And over those decades, have learned to apply it to everything.

Home presence…

Presence of my priorities…

And eventually, the presence to prioritize them…

Wasn’t easy, but the presence to stay with it led to peace and contentment…personal vibrancy.

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Grammy always said

Small apartment packed with packing boxes — Furnished apartment was full of furniture (of course), boxes, and an army of night-time roaches.

Shirtless man in a small apartment kitchen — Me spraying for roaches. Hopefully the baseboard, bathroom, bedroom, and kitchen spraying will help. It didn’t.

Two-story old apartment building — Lower, corner unit next to a busy cut-through road.

Four people standing outside a building — Cheryl’s Grammy and her cousin Michael paid us a visit shortly after we arrived. i think Cheryl’s parents sent Grammy to make sure Cheryl was ok and wasn’t in over her head with someone like me. lol

Two people posing at Epcot in front of a fountain and spaceship earth — Grammy and me at Epcot, September 1984. This was before selfies were invented. Someone actually held your camera and stepped back, then took the picture.

Cheryl’s Grammy always said, “Health is wealth.”

This is not an exaggeration, Grammy may be the most remarkable human being i have ever known. She lived to be almost 94 and she died in my arms.

Note: Cheryl and i flew home September 1989. i was in our best man’s wedding party and we stayed at Cheryl’s place until the wedding 60 miles away. Grammy passed before the wedding and we were conflicted about still attending Cort and Katie’s marriage. The answer was easy, Grammy would want us to go. So we did.

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2026 forecast for goodbyes

Forecasted goodbyes for 2026:

Goodbye to work

Note: Following goodbyes, there are planned ‘hellos’.

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