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There are other changes as well.

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We go on to the joy and through the tears
We go on to discover new frontiers
Moving on with the current of the years.
We go on
Moving forward now as one
Moving on with a spirit born to run
Ever on with each rising sun.
To a new day, we go on.

It's time to move on and move forward.

PassPorter is a small business, and for many years it supported our family. But the world changed, print books took a backseat to the Internet, and for a long time now it has been unable to make ends meet. We've had to find new ways to support our family, which means new careers and less and less time available to devote to our first baby, PassPorter.

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If you miss us, you can still find some of us online. Sara started a new blog at DisneyParkPrincess.com -- I strongly urge you to visit and get on her mailing list. She IS the Disney park princess and knows Disney backward and forward. And I am blogging as well at JenniferMaker.com, which is a little craft blog I started a couple of years ago to make ends meet. You can see and hear me in my craft show at https://www.youtube.com/c/jennifermaker . Many PassPorter readers and fans are on Facebook, in groups they formed like the PassPorter Trip Reports and PassPorter Crafting Challenge (if you join, just let them know you read about it in the newsletter). And some of our most devoted community members started a forum of their own at Pixie Dust Lane and all are invited over.

So we encourage you to stay in touch with us and your fellow community members wherever works best for you!

Best wishes for a wonderful and magical new year!

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This has been a personal project to blog every day for a school year on goals and dreams. My hope was that I could find a group of people to work with me.

I was lucky enough to find a small, but sincere group of inspirational people to keep me company. We've been using Walt Disney's philosophies or creations as inspiration.

I am no longer blogging daily, but I am notified if comments are posted, and I'll be happy to keep the discussion going!

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Guided by a vision

Posted 01-06-2010 at 11:53 PM by Sandra Bostwick
Updated 01-07-2010 at 12:01 AM by Sandra Bostwick

It was Walt Disney's dream that Epcot be a place always guided by a vision of the future. This is why the most important letter in the name 'Epcot" is the 't', for it stands for 'tomorrow.' So it seemed only fitting that Epcot should be the setting for the ultimate celebration of tomorrow as we greet the millennium.
Michael D. Eisner

Only 20 minutes left of this day, and I was so busy being guided by my own vision, that I forgot to blog.

Sometimes it is hard for me to stay grounded because the 'T' in my 'today' stands for 'tomorrow.' So, somehow, when I am on a roll, I am never quite in today.

OK, I know that is totally un-Zen in many ways, BUT if you look at it in a different way, it is completely Zen.

A Zen sand garden, for example, comes with it's very own rake to keep changing the shape and pattern of the sand. Well, THAT does not sound much like being still in the moment, does it?

Tibettan Monks create these elaborate sand paintings that get destroyed almost as soon as they are completed. That sounds like embracing the lack of permanance in the moment to me.

Celebrating tomorrow keeps you from being stuck in the routines of the present day. I think that was why Walt Disney was such a visionary. He was always looking just a bit forward all the time.

So, in the final 10 minutes of January 6th, 2010, I celebrate the coming of January 7th 2010.

Sorry, but that is where my head is at the moment and, unfortunately, I still had my daily blog to finish.

I can't WAIT to see what January 7th will be like in just a few minutes!

ANNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD, here it is! Happy New Day! Woo Hoo! I hope it is full of wonder and magic for you!

Quote from p, 4
Brandon, Pam. Making the Millennium; The Celebration of a Lifetime at the Walt Disney World Resort. First ed. New York: Roundtable Press, 1999. N. pag. Print.

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	well... it's January 7th and you get ME!!! It's a GIRL!! Now go get some sleep! Thye 7th will be only what you make it... I made the 6th very productive and creative and the 7th will be more! G'nite! Now I can sleep... 0 Pixie Dust Pixie Dust 0
	Posted 01-07-2010 at 12:04 AM by A.Daley

	Hi Angie! 0 Pixie Dust Pixie Dust 0
	Posted 01-07-2010 at 12:06 AM by Sandra Bostwick

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	Posted 01-07-2010 at 12:07 AM by Sandra Bostwick

	good morning Sandy!!! 0 Pixie Dust Pixie Dust 0
	Posted 01-07-2010 at 12:08 AM by A.Daley

	How's the art going? 0 Pixie Dust Pixie Dust 0
	Posted 01-07-2010 at 12:08 AM by Sandra Bostwick

Oh! I can't wait to show you! But like manyy things... you will have tyo wait... I will show you by the time I pick Alice up from school around noon. Very cute... at least I think so... we'll have to see what my "Boss" thinks. She is a real ball breaker... you know how it is. So go to sleepand when you wake it will be a new day and with new colorful, imaginative, magical things coming your way! Sleep tight!!!

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