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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!

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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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Seasons in the Blog Box.

Posted 01-24-2010 at 01:50 PM by Sandra Bostwick
I want to revisit an earlier topic



Blank sheet of paper.


One of my favorite books ends with what first appears to be a blank page. There is a shadowy image of Mickey Mouse with his wizard hat and wand. The top of the page bears the following text:

"There are two ways to look at this blank sheet of paper. You can look at it as the last page of a book, or as the greatest opportunity in the world because nobody's put anything on it. That's the way we look at it, at Imagineering. Go ahead and use it to dream, create new things and let your imagination go.

Why not? Everything begins somewhere..."

What would you fill your blank sheet of paper with? Would you draw, write, or do something else?


Walt Disney Imagineering-A behind the Dreams Look at Making the Magic Real by the Imagineers-published by Hyperion in 1996.

This was something I posted back in November. Since then, SO MUCH has happened, and there have been so many blank sheets of paper.

There have been presentations, projects started, projects finished, goals started and goals finished.

Back when I wrote that, I was only a third of the way through my goal to blog every day for a school year, and NOW I am half way there!

Every time there is a blank blog box, though, I get a different feeling. Sometimes I come to the blank blog box without a whole lot of inspiration. Sometimes I come to the blank blog box with several ideas that I can hardly sort out.

At one point, I thought that I might write up a few entries in a word document and just cut and paste them in each day. I decided against that, though, because that is REALLY not blogging every day.
I think blogging every day is teaching me things about myself because there is a natural rhythm or timing that I was not entirely aware of.

For example, I blog differently at different times of the day. In the morning, I tend to be thinking forward, while at night I tend to be reflecting back.
I also have cycles that follow a clock of days or weeks. I kind-of pick up speed, go full force, then wind down for a rest before picking up speed again.

Blogging every day while trying to keep somewhat focused on goals, dreams, motivation or growth is revealing a seasonal or tidal quality to the way my life flows.

I have not quite figured out what to do with this information, but that is where my head is today, so THERE it is, filling the blank blog box.
Have you seen a seasonal or tidal quality to the way you pursue those things you want?
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    One thing I started to think about how people live their life. It almost like a book is being written, there will be a lot of chapters as you life changes. Today my grandmother is on her last chapter as she sleep in her resting home with family around saying good bye. Soon the book will be close. But she was able to make a lot of books through us as we all have things being written in our own book. Yes a pages does not only have to be made out of wood or other materials, but made from our heart that when you see the best written books.
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    I like that Todd!!!
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    Todd, that was beautiful!
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    opps i GOT A BUG IN THE KEYBOARD SORRY
    Anyway today my grandma book been close but not yet self. there a lot of chapters that been written over 93 years so It been a nice book. I'm glad she won't suffer anymore on the earth.
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    Oh, Todd, I am so sorry to hear about your grandma.
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    Thank You, We as a family went out to dinner to say good bye together. I said a prayer with the family.
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