Rewards – Page 2 – Disney Creativity and Innovation Keynote Speaker

WDW Day 1 – Back Home, home

10-second video: First walk at home in five weeks. Five days after Ian and the water is the strongest i’ve seen in 30 years at this exact spot.

10-second video: Erosion is ~~rare~~ non-exisistant here. Until Ian.

airport boarding area — Saved this photo for last today. Why? Because it is a situation that momentarily caused decent concern about not being able to get home last night.

About 50 of us boarded the plane and filled the jetway. We waited for a long time. Eventually, instructed to return to terminal gate. Something about a malfunctioning door was the rumor.

Yesterday’s posts highlighted how smooth the travel day was. And i shared that 2022 has been a ‘harrowing” travel year.

Almost like deja vu (the harrowing part).

And then hope was restored.

Our plane re-boarded and off we went.

Arrived Orlando before midnight.

Arrived home near 1:00 AM.

Today has been slow and steady adjustment back to Florida living.

Jet-lagged.

Lots of Hurricane Ian cleanup.

Blessed beyond measure.

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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.

Tempted to intervene

9-second video: Try and stop someone who doesn’t know their limits. The two pool poles are vastly different in every respect but one – they are both made for water.

Tempted to intervene.

A parent reflex.

An adult reflex.

A leader reflex.

But what if we don’t?

Surprises. Lessons. Transformation. Failure. Experience. Wisdom. Growth.

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What’s it like Jeff?

27-second video: What’s it like hiking in Glacier? Sometimes it’s like this. Assuming this animal trail leads potentially to the summit at 9,200′.

In real time, i’d have flown to Glacier a few days ago to begin the June 2022 first visit. Writing this, however, from our back porch at Walt Disney World. Stumbled upon the videos and the rest as they say is (blogging) history.

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Canteen

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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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