Category: Dear Son

Free to conform?

Mountaineering is 50% uphill.

Being a non-conforming artist can set you free. Not conforming can hurt. Not being free can also hurt.

dad

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BYOA

Disney Institute classroom table and screen
Generating, selecting, and implementing ideas is art.

Bring your own art to each new day.

dad

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Simple, career message

you tube screen shot
Stumbled on this (and all of today’s photos). Using iPhone is easier to access photos, but literally impossible to pinpoint a specific type.

Hang in there at work.

dad

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So they reply and then…

Disney Institute presentation slide
Screen shot from someone’s (not Disney Institute) social media post.

Imagine getting this response from me…

What do you want from me?

Let’s review:

So far, in two emails (or texts):

  1. Didn’t expect to see you. What brings you here?
  2. What do you want from me?

i like where this is going.

Why?

Because, didn’t see it coming.

Surprising myself.

Feels good.

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Enter the Web Log

child with butterfly net in flower meadow
Wow, what a blast from the past, maybe 2005. Our front yard.

The term Blog is the iteration that came from Web Log.

i know this because my first (while at Disney Institute) folder about this new thing, social media, was labeled Web Log.

Simple idea. Wanna write a book, then practice writing. Get in writing-shape.

Wanna run a half-marathon, practice running. Get in running-shape.

Blogging was the perfect training facility to get in writing-shape.

Blogging was a miserable activity for a year or so. Couldn’t get the hang of the muscle memory. In reality, i simply wasn’t practicing enough.

On April Fools day, 2009 i fixed this.

To this day (we are in 2021), i haven’t missed a single day writing five differently-themed blog posts.

Practice, practice, practice, practice.

Now play.

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