Thanksgiving Day, 2013

19-second video: For about 10 seconds in the very center, you can see the Grizzly moving slowly. Highline Trail and Going-to-the-Sun Road also clearly visible.

In 1979 i made a promise to write a book to my kids.

In 2009, 30 years later, a career wakeup call was a painful reminder the first sentence had yet to be written.

Additionally, there was only one child to write to, not several.

Only my Son and i knew the status:

  • Thirty years to write the first sentence
  • Two more years to write the book
  • Two more years to get the courage to publish

Had it published on Amazon in October 2013, knowing the official reveal to Cheryl with a physical copy would purposefully happen on Thanksgiving (2013) morning.

She had heard me talk so much about it, but never saw any tangible result. She thought i silently abandoned it.

Cheryl was shocked to hold a copy in her hands.

Was filled with gratitude – thanksgiving – that i finally did what i said i was gonna do.

Thanksgiving, on multiple levels, was the perfect day to tell Cheryl, and the world.

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By jeff noel

Retired Disney Institute Keynote Speaker and Prolific Blogger. Five daily, differently-themed personal blogs (about life's 5 big choices) on five interconnected sites.