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Mark Still Walking
Mark Baumer Sustainability Fund Newsletter (Fall 2023)
A Board Near and Far It was a year ago in November that Mark’s parents moved to Central Virginia. Perhaps since Mark was born in Indiana, moved to Maine when he was three, and then lived in Los Angeles for a period, while walking across America in 81 days in...
Mark Baumer Newsletter (Winter 2022)
Mark Baumer Newsletter (Winter 2022) Mark’s Birthday was December 19—a Christmas gift like none other. He would have celebrated his 39th birthday this week. In honoring Mark on his birthday, won’t you celebrate Mark and help us help others in the coming year? Here are...
Mark Baumer Newsletter (Winter 2021)
Mark Baumer Newsletter (Winter 2021) Happy Birthday, Mark! (December 19) Mark continues walking on through The Mark Baumer Sustainability Fund. Here are some fund highlights from 2021. Growing To Give- We continue supporting Growing to Give, a local farm growing...
Earth Day Edition
Earth Day Edition We have some news to report at the Mark Baumer Sustainability Fund. Mary, Mark’s mom, is now our president. This change has been in the works and given that I felt that Mary has the greatest passion around the causes of what we established the fund...
Another Year Down (and what a year it was!)
Another Year Down (and what a year it was!) I am overdue in updating the Mark Baumer Sustainability Fund newsletter. My goal had been to get out three newsletters each year. 2020 has been a brutal year for staying true to that goal. To be honest, I can’t blame it...
Birthdays and Anniversaries
Birthdays and Anniversaries Mark’s birthday is this week. As I’ve written before, he was a “Christmas baby.” A special gift—the best kind that two young parents 1,500 miles away from friends and their extended families could have been delivered in 1983. Mark would be...
Springtime is a Tough Time
More than 40 participants joined Team Every Mile Yeah to honor Mark and take part in the Providence Rhode Races in early May.
Working Through the Process
As parents, sometimes we feel like nothing we can do will ever take away the crushing emotional pain and sadness that comes at various times, often unexpectedly. At the same time, we’ve tried to push through the times when the pain of mourning and feelings of hopelessness threaten to overtake us.
The Arrival of Spring
If you live in a four-season environment, the end of winter and the arrival of the first few warm days of spring is an anticipated ritual. This year, ice, snow, and cold hung on for a bit longer than many of us liked. But since we don’t have direct control over the weather, we continued waiting.
The Holiday Blues
Mark was a Christmas baby. Well, he came the week before Santa, on December 19. Mary and I were living in Northwest Indiana in 1983 when he was born.