Yes! Yes! Yes! and more Yes!

Dear Blog Readers,

Love is in the air as we now are in spring. I so much love what is in store for many of you. The time to act is now. Your best energy is right now. You are happy and open. Reach out and do it. I am so sure of this.

Oh, I am such a nosey guy. I wanted to tell you a story about a guy I know but I realized that it was too focused on what isn’t working instead of what is. I am a guy who finds a certain joy in what doesn’t work in other people’s lives because my life has a hard time moving forward. Please know this is a bad habit I hope to change right now. I am a bit of a stodgy guy at times and hope to change that too. So, find your character defects and work them into something good and then rest assured the love will come.

I am thinking how to end this. Oh, how about this?

Please relax and smile each time you speak to anyone. If I could I would because I see that technique works wonders all the time.

Singing you a beautiful song for spring….

Fondly,

Mark

Your Hardened Warrior of Living Well Now

The Days are Growing Flowers Soon

Dear Blog Readers,

I am sitting in The Red Hen bakery.

It is a sunny end of winter day.

Oh, I had a nice invitation to blog for Disability Awareness Day at the Statehouse.  I told Ed Paquin (Director of the Vermont Coalition for Disability Rights) I couldn’t do it because I was too into my own problems and unable to address the issues of people with disabilities.

I am happy to say that I have a good friend who turned my thinking around on that. He helped me to see that my issues are connected to the issues of people with disabilities because I have things I need services for to move my life forward. I know that once again the Shumlin budget shaves more developmental services.

Please think about why this happened. I am, first, referring to my stuck thought that my friend dislodged.

Only having access to typing my thoughts in short snippets of time means I am bad at conversations. Love to say that I was good at it but I am not. So I have thoughts that get stuck and don’t benefit from the massage a friend’s good thinking can give. I think I can fix this by not making ultimatums, seeking to gather more info and not feeling I am a victim of my life.

As for the budget we just have to keep getting our successful efforts of adding meaning to life known to the people who make decisions about our lives.

Thank you to everyone who came out for Disability Awareness Day at the Vermont Statehouse. We are making history while making our own lives better and brighter.

Be well friends.

Fondly,

Mark

The Voice of Seeing Love Grow Us Up

P.S. Thanks for all the lovely words you sent me last week.

Waterfall of Dear Friend Moments

Dear Blog Readers,

I and Emily just had a wonderful visit with a friend. He is someone we met while in the process of raising money to make the movie “I am in here.” I hold him so dearly as a good friend of my heart. I think we truly are brothers in spirit and anticipate we will be brothers for the rest of our long lives.

Here are some good moments we shared:

He was buying a pack of fairies from Emily so she gave him a Fairy Consultation and it was an awesome reading.

We did easy chatting about how we are connected by each of us going through life on a unique path that has brought us together.

I also had a Fairy Card Reading which is assisting me in accepting the gifts I have today. I am so thankful that I have access to dear friend moments.  I am thankful for the fairies of Emily’s world and want her to succeed with her plans to share them with the world.  I am thankful that I have more access to daily typing and am totally into writing this blog.

I want to give you some great advice.

Read Jernigan Pontiac’s “Hackie” column in the Seven Days if you don’t already!

He’s my brother and fellow fan of Bluebird Fairies.

If you want a taste of Jernigan right now, here is something he wrote in response to my blog posting last week:

“I am not ‘super together’ either! Perhaps for both of us, the process of writing is a way to simultaneously healing (unifying) our split selves, and sharing the journey with others.  And that sharing is an expression of love.

So, as we are ‘two peas in a pod’ (or as you put it ‘The Guys Who Spread Love Through Written Words’), I’m glad we met, became friends, and are able to help out each other with confidence in our journey.  Everyone needs a boost now and then!”

Please take a moment to send me a hello today as I am very needing peer support.

I am so happy you read this.

Fondly,

Mark

The Easy Warrior of Friendship