Wishing You a Wonder Filled Year

Hello and Happy New Year Dear Blog Readers,

I am so excited that our podcast was chosen to be included in the Atlantic Magazine’s best list of best podcasts for this year. It’s #38.

Erica is an incredible interviewer.

I know more great talking will happen with her.

Oh, here we go into another year.

On the asking to see thoughts I’d written last year at this time Emily showed me some conversations we had and my 2015 New Year’s blog.

I am so totally in a new place with so much excitement all around me. I am easily through the hardest parts of last year. What remains is the summary of it so I can truly move on. Here it is:

I had to think a lot about who I am and where I want to go with my life. I was frustrated a lot this year because I couldn’t find the way to get away from the sad state I was finding myself in and into the life I want to live.

It has given my life a tremendous boost to move my dear self to Champlain Community Services. Here, I am still getting off the ground in terms of what my daily life is like but the atmosphere here is absolutely awesome.

Please take a moment to hear my thoughts for the New Year.

·      I want to get Utter Communication Strategies up and moving.

·      I want projects getting designed and implemented.

·      I want work that suits my intelligence and shares my gifts.

I so know this will happen.

I give you a wish to bring to life your own passions. Maybe worth listening to some podcasts to get some energetic ideas flowing?

Out with the old in with the new!

Be well my friends.

Fondly,

Mark

The Bright New Man

Wonderful Plans Quite Wonderfully Growing

Dear Beloved Blog Readers,

It’s Christmas time!

It’s also a great time to think about all that we are “loving into place”. 

We are also observing that the days are dark and winter is here.

Please let’s take a moment to gather up some of the love that has been spilling forth since Emily found the right person to guide our project. Yes, Emily, you are correct he did not direct us. He said “Mark, I think you’re just going to have to love this all into place.” And he sent us love every day.

Oh, we have been using the theme of “loving it into place” ever since and I am thinking it is a great gift for all of you.

I am still recovering from my existential crisis which had me take a big look at my life and slip into a funk. I realize that it is easy to think your life is going to miraculously find its way after the push to move a big project into life. Of course, the big project I’m talking about is my movie.  I really joyfully know that you have to give a lot to life to get a lot back.

I am so amped up now that I am at Champlain Community Services. Here I have people who look in my eyes and see me. I am moving my plans forward for my business. Oh, I am so happy.

Merry Christmas to all!

I will be in touch with my New Year’s resolutions and I won’t disappoint as I have some great ones for all of you.

Fondly,

Mark

The Merry Man of Vermont

P.S. I want to tell you all that my movie received “First Place” in “Art and Theater” at the Alliance for Community Media (Northeast) Video Festival. I’m delighted that Jim Heltz traveled down to the Mark Twain House in Hartford, CT to receive it. Please know you can purchase my DVD at any time by going to the shop on my web site.

Thank Full

Dear Beloved Blog Readers,

I am so thankful to have you in my life.

Last month I had the great experience of being interviewed by Erica Heilman for her podcast rumble strip Vermont.

As I mentioned many times this year I have had some low moments that were connected to my slowly acclimating my life to understanding how to use communication now that I have access to it.

In this podcast you can hear some of this struggle.

I am joyfully on the up rise and hope the same is true for all of you.

I am totally looking forward to the ways our lives connect us again.

It will be fun and magical.

Enjoy being you.

Fondly,

Mark

The Striper of the Vermont Rumble