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  • The Audience Has Different Preferences Than Just You And I.

    Marketing to more than just your own special tastes, it means seeing others out in the audience.

    Because if you don’t, the following is small. Because last check, there are like colors in the rainbow a lot of distinct preferences for anything from music to food to where to vacation in Maine.

    Sitting On A Maine Porch. Maine Is That.
    All Year Long, Maine Is Outdoor Living.

    Survey says (ding ding ding) not the same answer on the tip of your tongue.

    Or held near and dear in your heart. And if you and I open up and try new things. To embrace, consider new ideas or approaches to anything in life, something special happens inside. You move from narrow, set in your ways and expecting others to tow the same thin line.

    To let’s try something different. Even 180 polar opposite. Give it a shot, whirl. It snowballs. The spark catches fire and here we go for growth. Being able to accept easier other people’s viewpoints that are scattered in the wind that swirls around us.

    Without taking it personal or figuring they are wrong. New ideas. Ones that are not your own. The answer to how you feel about much is life is not a yes or no, right or wrong answer. And toleration, patience, hear them out before you put up your hand in protest. Or say that would never work. To be a wet blanket, borderline Eeyore.

    Ruts happen in life and routines can be easy to perform without thought.

    But. What are you missing in the short journey in that dash between the when you are born, when you take that last ride.

    Maine Small Town Living Is Simpler.
    We Consume Less Power Here, Maine Is Ripe For Wind Electrical Generation For Other Hungry Consuming Markets.

    The people you circle with in life and bump into is part of the let’s try something different or not. Traveling, reading, or just having a creative imagination all helps shake it up.

    Open the doors and windows in your head and heart. To blow out the cobwebs.

    And shift from talking about people you like or not to let’s share hopes, dreams, experiences.

    To wow, see the bigger picture.

    To solutions to make life better for you and those around you. Because it never goes away from making sure it is all about the greater good.

    Outside yourself is where the enrichment, enjoyment is and Maine is a place with space to get blown away. Not caught up in your own problems and realize this too shall pass.

    What are you venturing out into and enjoying that either never had time for or any inclination to try?

    I’m Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers, ME Broker
    207.532.6573
    info@mooersrealty.com

  • Kid Caused Events In Maine Where The Adults Compare Notes.

    Volunteers Help Feed The State Musicians.
    Fun, Music, Food… And So Much More At The State Of Maine Jazz Festival In Houlton ME.

    When you live in Maine, so much of our recreation somehow revolves around kids, our area youth.

    Our own or the communities. Or maybe the state’s when it is a festival like the Maine State Instrumental and Vocal Jazz event being hosted in Houlton Maine this weekend.

    Even when your kids are grown, flown and left the nest and not around to say good night Elizabeth, Jim Bob and John Boy, you pitch in.

    Small town volunteers, like migrant workers labor around the community. Because of the habit established with your own quiver of issue being involved in the events. And the tradition continues. It is way more fun working an event, being on the front lines than just attending them. Like small town Maine life, there is a deeper connection to the local community. The place would not be the same if any single person was missing. All play a part. Your purpose and enjoyment in just being lucky to live in a small Maine town. Which is the paid in full reward.

    Talked to a fellow who’s drove the bus for Bonny Eagle High Schools who had worked as a lobsterman. Married an Aroostook County girl from the Fort Fairfield area. Who was staying in Millinocket, over and hour away. To return Saturday, today with the yellow bus of high school jazz musicians. Motels in the area were that full with 2300 “suddenly students” happening in the Shiretown.

    Eating the home made chili and scoffing down a chef salad, topping it off with a pair of chocolate chip cookies the Houlton Music Boosters supplied, we talked about how special living in Maine is.

    He has two kids, youngest a boy of twenty three, an older daughter involved in the special Olympics of Maine as a child.

    He agreed that when you live in Maine, experience her full time we are spoiled. Not one week a year if we are lucky to tramp and explore Vacationland. No no, every day a chance to be in awe, to learn from her beauty, peace, seclusion. Coming up Interstate 95 when he passed the spot north of Medway where Mt Katahdin topped with whipped new snow, he glanced over and it hit him that he is lucky to live in Maine. Mainers are filled with a sense of gratitude, wonderment everyday. It sustains and makes the economic uncertainties of living in a rural sparsely populated state not flush with cash rich, more rewarding.

    He said he and his wife love to camp and when the kids got older their children’s love for it waned.

    So mom and dad continued to use their LL Bean tent. Everything stowed in plastic tubs and ready to go when the mood hit, the schedule allowed. Collecting state parks around Maine one by one. He said their favorite around West Quoddy Head area Downeast and Cobscook Bay State Park. I told him I am on a kick collecting lighthouses in Maine. And the one that’s red and white striped I think is the prettiest of the group of sixty eight. Although there are some close rivals, contender lighthouses in Maine for the blue ribbon. A chartered boat to get to the lighthouses not so land lubber friendly is on the calendar for this summer. He gave me a couple names from his lobsterman travels on where to hitch a ride toting a telephoto lens and camera gear to add to my collection.

    Sweet Music, Talented Maine Youth.
    The State Of Maine’s Finest Instrumental And Vocal Jazz Bands Compete In Houlton ME Festival.

    The bus ride took 35 gallons of diesel he learned while fueling up at the Irving Big Stop in Houlton Maine. It will chew up more on the down to Millinocket, return north to Houlton round trip before heading back to Southern Maine. The local economy swells with a musical event in more than currency. Exchange of students from other schools, and the support team they are hitched to, dragged to the current event venue all benefit big time. Maine is one big vast state and the people are the jewels too, not just the Gulf Hagas and other pretty settings.

    Busy day of real estate showings in Maine but back to the musical jazz festival to pitch in late this afternoon. And to sample more good food, listen to the talent from around the state. And enjoy the energy youth provide small town living in Maine. This weekend it’s music, other ones tied to sports, theatre, or other competitions designed to prepare kids for the world out there in the wild blue yonder. Houlton Maine again the host festival community for 2014 state Jazz festival competition too!

    I’m Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers, ME Broker
    207.532.6573
    info@mooersrealty.com