I have a new friend. I met him in prison. Recently, we were both doing work for the Federal Bureau of Prisons, helping inmates find purpose in their lives. Mark was bringing it through music. I was teaching them to journal.
Mark Collie was a big name as a country singer, writer and film star back a couple decades ago. I don’t recall what I was doing.
Mark is having a huge revival playing a sheriff in Taylor Sheridan’s Landman, an upcoming TV series starring Billy Bob Thornton, Demi Moore, Jon Hamm and young film stars I’ve never heard of. Mark’s also doing a bunch of big entertainment stuff I can’t talk about. Meanwhile, I’m busy playing with my dogs and pulling up foxtails.
We both have a couple things in common: messing up a bit in our early years, and today, wanting to make this world a better place.
Mark is breaking away from all the glamour stuff to come to Carson City to be a storyteller at our CONNECTIONS event on May 16. He will talk and sing about how music brings people together. I can’t wait to watch people smile and laugh with Mark.
He doesn’t have to come all this way to help me. But isn’t that what true friends do?
Now here’s an idea