100 Days of Wonder – #70
I said yesterday that I was beginning to feel Christmassy so here’s a Christmas greeting from me to you. The photo is actually from January 2023 but when we arrived a lot of the festive stuff was still all over the Disney parks. I’m currently waiting to fly out to Hamburg today to see Dad, have a wander around the Hamburg Christmas markets and enjoy some childhood memories. The pull to reminisce and reflect is strong.
At the same time the Disney anticipation is building. I have probably said before that the planning is as much part of the excitement, joy and wonder as the trip itself. There’s not much planning left to do now. Everything is booked. I’m getting excited, I’m increasingly thinking about the happy headspace Disney world gives me and thinking about it means I am spending more time thinking happy.
So I think Christmas reflectiveness coupled with Disney excitement mean that my tolerance of drama and bullshit is at an all time low and I am really just interested in stories of hope and joy and wonder. May your run up to Christmas be peaceful, calm and filled with kindness and love.
100 Days of Wonder – #69
I think I’m beginning to feel Christmassy. It’s Friday, we’re heading to see Dad for a few days tomorrow and this evening I took mum to see a recital of Handel’s Messiah. It’s time to embrace the Christmas magic, joy and wonder and maybe some gingerbread!
100 Days of Wonder – #68
It’s about time I introduced Figment. Here he is. He’s usually more purple than that but here he is in his Disney World 50th Anniversary celebration statue look. It will come as no surprise that I like Figment. (If you are now humming the tune from the ride, you are my people). Figment seems appropriate today because this week I have given two very different papers/talks that have left my little grey cells in overdrive. The good sort of overdrive. The sort that sparks the imagination, the sort that makes you optimistic about all of the possible futures and begins to get to work on ways of making them happen. The events have reminded me to dare to dream and that work which takes us closer to our dreams is always worth doing. Sometimes the idea of changing the world seems too big, too impossible. But as I have said before and Walt Disney reminded us ‘It is kind of fun to do the impossible’. And as Figment puts it:
We all have sparks, imaginations
That’s how our minds, create creations
For they can make, our wildest dreams come true
Those magic sparks, in me and you
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