Watching a banana tree unfurl—awesome. I have never seen anything like it, and it is in our yard.
Next Thursday DD, Baby D and I are going on a dream vacation—not so much that it is a lifelong dream or anything like that, but one where dreams are spread out if their full glory. It is Disneyland—DD’s favorite place on earth and a trip she wanted for her 40th birthday. Daughter number one and Grandson number one are joining us, and it will be four-year-old Grandson number one’s first trip. Already he thinks he has seen Disneyland for his mother told him about our contest when they were kids. “The first person to see the Matterhorn got a dime.”
“Dream, Believe, Dare Do.” That is the Disney way, and one DD and I are attempting to emulate. “Do your teams participate in off-site retreats where they engage in strategy and planning?” the Disney management asks other company CEO’s. That’s what DD and I are doing, going to a place where Dreams fly, where believing is encouraged, and where you dare to do the thing you thought couldn’t be done.
We will have flight hours to brainstorm. We have been doing a lot of that lately, including coming up with a business plan, incorporating the name The Frog Song, Inc. writing a proposal to the IRS for non-profit status, and then shelving it when we found out the grant that would be perfect for us required that we be in business already for three years.
“That was satisfying,” said DD when she canceled a check to the IRS. Although disappointing at first, we were glad that plan didn’t work out—there is something better in store for us.
After Disney built the Pirates of the Caribbean he had all the workers take the ride and asked them if they saw a way it could be improved to tell him. The attraction was ready to open, and it took considerable time to have every worker take the ride, but Disney requested it. One fellow said something was missing but he couldn’t put his finger on what it was. Disney told him to keep riding until he found it.
“Fireflies,” he said, “a bayou isn’t complete without fireflies.” And so during your trip through a Louisiana Bayou preparing for the romping ride down a waterfall and into a pirates lair, you see fireflies lighting the dusky darkness.
“A wish is a dream your heart makes.”
--Jiminy Cricket
