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Disney retirement 12th anniversary, work

Glacier National Park
Glacier National Park. When you wake up in Swiftcurrent Motor Inn, step outside on a clear day and look straight ahead. Photo: Grinnell Point from the North, Swiftcurrent Motor Inn side.
Glacier National Park
Same place as above photo. This view is me lowering the viewfinder down to include the forest view at sunrise. Photo: Lower Grinnell Point elevation.

Two current things about retirement.

  1. Still have final purge-or-keep work to do with the remaining Disney lifetime collection of ‘stuff’. What’s left is a fraction of what i began purging a year ago. However, what’s left are the gems.
  2. Have three post-2025-retirement speaking contracts signed. Two more in negotiations. Not even wishing for this and it’s happening.

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Dear Son, some important context notes, work

Glacier National Park
Glacier National Park. Many Glacier Valley. Salamander Glacier is barely visible on the center right. The Glacier formerly know as Gem Glacier is literally dead center.

We added 31 nights from our annual Summer 2026 Glacier visit to currently sit at 518 lifetime nights in Glacier National Park.

My first Glacier visit was as a newly-minted 14-year old on a chartered Boy Scout bus trip to Idaho from Pennsylvania.

In 1973 my parents sprang for the $360 price tag covering everything for three weeks, except souvenirs.

In recent years in Glacier, our average room rate for a single night is roughly equal to the entire 1973 three-week inclusive cost.

Finally, 2026 was our first year as fully-retired, fixed-income seniors. A simple yet profound milestone.

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Be the wine, work

Glacier National Park
Glacier National Park. You will never hear me whine about being in Glacier. Photo: Salamander Glacier.

Be the wine, not the hangover. -social media

Be the opportunity, not the problem. – dad

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Wealthy, at work

Glacier National Park
When you have a friend, and work colleague, who loves Glacier almost as much as you, you are wealthy.
Glacier National Park
When you have a friend, and work colleague, who will snap an occasional photo of you at the Grinnell Glacier, you are wealthy.
Glacier National Park
Glacier National Park, and the iconic stromatolites at the Upper Grinnell Glacier Lake. Wealth is having time to explore the Grinnell Glacier area in above-average detail. This large section of stromatolites is off the beaten shoreline paths of Upper Grinnell Lake and Grinnell Glacier. But once you discover it, you see it’s screaming, “This is impossible to miss. Look how big this fossilized feature is.”
Glacier National Park
Glacier National Park. Staying at a Swiftcurrent Motor Inn Cabin. The sign said the trail was closed due to bears frequenting. All these years later i can say, “we breached the don’t go any further signs”.
Glacier National Park
Glacier National Park, Grinnell Glacier Tail map.

Wealth is when you have something money can’t buy.

At work you easily and naturally demonstrate an insatiable desire to learn, contribute, and teach.

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Second day home in a month, work

Glacier National Park
Glacier National Park, obviously. The Continental Divide, obviously. Bishops Cap, not obvious, unless you’re us.

Having a vision is having a picture of the future. A future not only better than now, but much better than now.

Succeeded in accomplishing my 2026 Glacier visit vision.

An unrehearsed farewell to extended Summer visits.

Feels like a bullseye.

Grateful.

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