Birthday for Lovely Times

Dear Beloved Blog Readers,

I gladly welcome in the new changes of the seasons. They help us grow as they support the growth of the natural landscapes we live in. They support our rituals of life and awesomely texturize our experiences. I am happy to say that we are in a wonderful time so enjoy it please, dear friends.

I told you last year to check out Emily’s dear really daring roll out of her fairies when she premiered them at Burlington’s South End Art Hop.  Well, go again because they have evolved so wonderfully into a small really amazing business called Bluebird Fairies.

Want you to so dearly smile in your heart.

Fondly,

Mark

The Seasonal Saint of All Things Good

Wanting New

Dear Beloved Blog Readers,

I am really glad that you enjoyed Stuart’s metaphor for my sculpture. He is a great guy and I am so glad I can call him my friend.

​I dearly hope a big change in my life will happen soon. I am moving from one service provider agency to another. I am not mad at the place I am leaving. They have been such a great home for me for so long.

I am really just ready to try something new in a new place. Is this familiar to you too? I know in the fairy tales people set off from home to seek their fortunes. That is what I am doing.

The goal is to get Utter Communication Strategies up and running with me doing movie screenings and talk backs and workshops on the topic of “difference”.

Oh, it will be great to be in business.

I am easily sending you good thoughts for good changes in your life.

What a great experience it can be.

Fondly,

Mark

The Seeker of New

Good Home for Friend Moments

Dear Beloved Blog Readers,

Hope your summer is being radiant.

I have made a new friend and he has a communication disability too. One good thing about difference is that when you discover someone who shares one with you it’s very wonderful. I and he had a great talk last week and the day was full of wonder.

Now first I must explain to you that Stuart is Deaf and yet has awesome skills for talking with and understanding “hearing” people. I think he is also a hugely smart person.

I drove up to the Northeast Kingdom with Emily and Brian to find him on the piece of land he farms on. It was downright delightful to spend time on the land he loves, eat really fun good food he prepared and talk and sit on the little bridge above the babbling brook he loves so much.

In a previous blog posting I had asked people for additions to my metaphor list.

Stuart had specifically invited me to his land to see his garden and the weeds gloriously growing all around it. “Ah” he said while we sat by the water “I think we so much are like weeds and normal folks are like cultivated plants.” He showed us a book called The Wild Wisdom of Weeds. In it the author talks about the amazing benefits of 13 very common weeds.

Oh, I think it’s healthy for us all to validate our inner weed.

Please really love yourself from the inside out.

I applaud your efforts so far.

Be great.

Fondly,

Mark

The Wise Weed in a Wise Meadow