Sorry for the lack of updates lately =/ Here are a few things Mark has posted recently:

From Mark's Facebook fan group:

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"Now's the time to request me at the conventions! If you'd like to see me in your city, please do send a request to your local con and post the name on this page! Ii'll do my best to come and play a concert there for you!!"

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"Pat
My dear aunt Patricia Speer has died, leaving behind my 3 cousins and my uncle. She will be dearly dearly missed. I have learned so much from her.

Goodbye Aunty Pat. And may flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.

M."

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"Loss
It’s amazing how much emotion pours from somewhere it’s hard to define or measure. I realize that I have been trying to make sense of love, loss, fear, excitement for all of my life, trying to understand it or quantify it, or maybe just to avoid feeling it!

I discussed with someone I love dearly the concept of logic. That logic is a tool that can’t measure emotion or it’s cause adequately. That logic is something that you can use to deduct reasonably the causes and effects in reality. But that it is in many sense useless to deduct the cause of things outside our normal range of perception, such as where emotion comes from or why we feel. I had an awareness that I use logic to avoid feeling. That I go up into my head and try to figure out WHY I am feeling, or explain WHAT is happening. But this is a strategy to avoid feeling the feeling itself.

When someone dies it is always a great opportunity. This is a hackneyed idea, but probably because it is so true. I am noticing how much feeling I have, how much emotion I am capable of feeling, and that this is just what it is. That I would need to control it is really a problem, not the feeling itself.

M."

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"what is love?

Love is a self generated experience of magnificence, a deep connection with oneself that produces, as an emergent property of seeing reality for what it is, an emotional and mental sense of joy and appreciation for the beauty and perfection of what it is to be human.

Hi Holiness the Dalai Lama once defined love as a “complex state of attachment” which is why I named my record after the statement.

M."

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