Very Good Green Mountain Men

Dear Beloved Blog Readers,

Happy New Year.

This show is my present to all of you.

I was overcome by a wave of emotion after my interview with Max watching the boats getting their hearts and hearing Dan Siegel's beautiful music. I typed these words:

     "Oh, I am so happy you all are in my life as I lived so long on the outside that it still catches my breath that I am a part of society and making life lighter so no one gets left out like I was and still am because of my limited access to communication."

How our lives change and keep changing.

My intention this year is to grow my circle of communication support. I want you all to grow your wonderful intentions. 

Fondly,

Mark                                                                            The Waterfall of Words Finally Flowing

 

Very Merry Holidays to You All!

Dear Beloved Blog Readers,

Thank you to all who wrote about what you are thankful about. It was my way of getting a true gift from you

Oh, please take a look at this fun pic.

"Hi Mark! I wanted to send you this picture of me and my sister at a lights festival in Arizona" -Susie

Please readers, take a picture of you in one of my comfy tees and send it to me. If you need one, buy it here. I'm printing more in January. So get your order in by the 19th.

Very Merry Holidays to you all.

Fondly,

Mark                                                                 Good Green Mountain Man

p.s.- I am wanting to let you know that life has been busy so I need to be in touch with a lot of you in the New Year. Thanks for all your emails and good thoughts.

The Leader Ship

I am totally excited you are reading this. How are you?

I have been having a blast sharing my life with my colleagues who have differences.

I am delighted to let you know I am now the vice president of my advocacy group and that I work with the leadership team to create the agendas and when necessary I run the meetings. I am also taking part in the Leadership Series that Green Mountain Self Advocates, Vermont Family Network and the Vermont Developmental Disabilities Council run every year.

I am so happy that my friend Thomas is a part of this.

Here are my answers to 2 of the application questions for the Leadership Series that you might enjoy.

Q- Why are you interested in participating in this leadership training?

M- I want to be a leader and I need peers and mentors to support this process.  I also need to get out of the house on weekends and like staying in nice hotels.  So, this opportunity sounds like a merging of wonderful things.

Q- Tell us about a challenge you faced in your life and how you dealt with it.

M- I wanted people to know I was intelligent so I made a movie to prove it. 

During the long process and chapters of making it with an exciting crew of people I fell in love with the human condition. This quite surprised me but since we all struggle with that I feel more included than ever before.

I keep being amazed with life and all of us in it.

I hope the really great work we do together changes some lives.

On the first weekend which was last weekend in the Hilton Garden Hotel in Burlington I became friends with Chester Finn.

You can read more about him here. I am hopeful we will work together more.

I also want to look at how I can give you a beautiful hope for this holiday season.

I want all of you to think of 3 reasons you are thankful for what I write to you in this blog. If you write and report in on your findings I will send you a message.

Fondly,

Mark                                                                                Your Faithful Leader