Kendell Lang a Real Estate Expert With a Solution for All Medical Marijuana Growers

Medical marijuana has become an enormously profitable industry, which is not only evident in the massive figures generated (legally) last year (US $6.7 billion in North America) but also in its projected annual growth rate of a staggering 25%. There are currently an estimated 5,000+ state-licensed medical marijuana growers operating across North America and with the industry’s projected growth, this number is expected to steadily increase, even more so as local governments pass ordinances and issue permits to generate much-needed revenue.

It would seem to be a simple equation: more state-licensed medical marijuana growers = the greater need for real estate. But it’s not that simple. Consider the fact that even though medical marijuana is legal in 28 states and Washington D.C., this natural resource is still a Schedule 1 substance in the eyes of the federal law. This sets up a web of laws and restrictions the average grower has to navigate in order to locate real estate they can use for growing and harvesting their crops. Working with a federally illegal substance imposes a myriad of other challenges and obstacles on growers, not the least of which is a lack of co-operation from banks and traditional real estate agencies and therefore, denial to capital access.

The outcome of all these limiting factors is that medical marijuana growers need to back up their budding enterprises with a huge capital investment (typically without assistance from banks) or close their doors. Fortunately, there’s a new company in the marketplace and it’s offering medical marijuana growers the financial breathing room they need to become established in this flourishing industry by providing real estate management and development services. This company, Fusion Properties Management Group (FPMG), with real estate expert Kendell Lang as the founder and CEO, is paving the way to success for many licensed growers.

About Fusion Properties Management Group

“FPMG is a real estate development and asset management company that is focused on facility development, ownership and management for government-licensed and city-permitted growers of medical marijuana,” says real estate professional, Kendell Lang. “Our business is modeled after the highly successful Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) formula in the life science industry and our main drive is to provide cost-effective capital to medical marijuana growers so they aren’t having to use their capital for real estate investments.”

According to Kendell Lang, some of the services offered by FPMG include the selection, planning, development and management of sites, property, assets, construction, facilities, equipment and energy systems, as well as arranging permits and sourcing and structuring finances.

“Essentially, FPMG finds our clients real estate, which is licensed for cultivation of medical marijuana, in their area. This is a huge obstacle out of the way. We can then either build turnkey growing facilities and warehouses for them, or perform any necessary upgrades to the existing buildings,” explains real estate expert, Kendell Lang.

“Another facet of our service is to purchase real estate from medical marijuana growers and then lease it back to them at highly affordable rates. This returns to them all the capital they previously had locked up in real estate, which they can then use more profitably to drive and expand their operation.”

These comprehensive real estate services are providing immense relief to medical marijuana growers who are already heavily burdened with challenges. The ability to source licensed real estate or sell existing property to gain access to capital is breathing life into the industry at a grassroots level. More than ever before, there is hope for the MMJ growers to be able to fund a successful operation. If you are a state-licensed medical marijuana cultivator or manufacturer, you’re encouraged to submit your project to real estate expert Kendell Lang for consideration. 

Contact Real Estate Expert Kendell Lang

Kendell Lang
CEO & Principal Investor
FUSION PROPERTIES MANAGEMENT GROUP, INC.
Oriental Center, Suite P1 | 254 Munoz Rivera Avenue | San Juan | Puerto Rico | 00918
Email: ceo@fusionproperties.us
Phone: +1 760 445 3315

Brand Manager Kendell Lang Says Social Media Plays Pivotal Role In Business Success

Nowadays, a marketing strategy that does not include social media is fundamentally flawed and pretty much doomed to failure. Or at least that’s the opinion of Kendell Lang, an experienced brand manager and social media speaker. Kendell has worked in the domains of digital marketing and software development since their conception and what he sees in today’s marketing trends is that social media plays a pivotal role to business success.

Establishing a Two-Way Communication With Your Audience

“No amount of print advertising or expensive television ads can rival the reach, the market infiltration and the value of social media marketing,” says Kendell Lang. “With traditional advertising, you’re establishing a one-way communication with your audience, which isn’t really a conversation at all. With social media, you’re establishing a two-way communication and this holds incredible value for both you and your customers.”

Brand manager Kendell Lang views social media as an indispensible tool that benefits both the marketer (the business) and the audience (the customers). On the one hand, companies can benefit from this virtually free marketing avenue that has the potential to reach a vast audience without geographical limit. It also enables businesses to target their brand messaging to appeal to specific demographics, thereby saving time and money on appealing to people who wouldn’t be interested in their products and services in the first place.

But the communication goes both ways and customers also reap the rewards of using social media to find out more about the businesses, brands, products and services they’re interested in.

“People turn to social media for recommendations. They turn to sites like Yelp, Trip Advisor, Amazon, Foursquare, Yellowpages and other directory sites for other consumer’s opinions and reviews of the brands they’re considering,” explains social media speaker, Kendell Lang. “They’re also leaving reviews, and this is the most valuable source of feedback a business can get. Paying attention to what your customers are saying about you, even if it’s not always good, allows you to perfect your brand messaging and your products and services.”

The Power To Give Celebrity Status, Sometimes Overnight

Given the reach, the vast audiences and the number of social media sites out there in the virtual ether, using this medium as a tool for marketing truly holds manifold benefits for modern businesses of all size and within all industries. It has the potential – without spending thousands of dollars on expensive advertising campaigns – to give individuals and businesses celebrity status, in some cases, virtually overnight!

“Just look at the burgeoning medical marijuana industry,” says brand manager Kendell Lang, Fusion Media Marketing. “The number of businesses, dispensaries and grow operations are proliferating at lightning speed... faster than any other industry has for a very long time. In this sea of competition, the most visible and therefore most successful businesses are those that have leveraged the power of social media. They have done this to help them stand out, appeal to their target audience and establish a brand name and identity, just like Levi has for jeans and Starbucks for coffee.”

Looking at how much we all use social media on a daily basis, it’s easy to appreciate how it can be used to create a strong brand, whether that brand is a service, product or person. A powerful social media strategy is crucial to the success of the modern business; brand manager Kendell Lang can show you how to unlock this invaluable vault today...

Contact Social Media Speaker Kendell Lang

Kendell Lang
CEO & Principal Investor
FUSION PROPERTIES MANAGEMENT GROUP, INC.
Oriental Center, Suite P1 | 254 Munoz Rivera Avenue | San Juan | Puerto Rico | 00918
Email: ceo@fusionproperties.us
Phone: +1 760 445 3315

You can see Kendell Lang live in action on his YouTube Channel or sign up for one of his Webinars Here. Learn more about his Consulting Services or even book this Social Media Expert to present to your company or at one of your events!

Kendell Lang, the Real Estate Professional Serving the Construction & Marketing Needs of MMJ Operators

Kendell Lang, the real estate professional and social media keynote speakers, caters comprehensively to the needs of MMJ growers and manufacturers through real estate, tailored grow facilities and digital marketing services.

The budding medical marijuana (MMJ) industry may carry huge potential for revenue, but it’s also demanding on capital and this is because controlled environment agriculture isn’t cheap! Demands on electricity, water and fertilizer are steep and the cost of equipment, staff, security and facilities, as well as the maintenance thereof, all cost a pretty penny. The consequences of this is that if you start without the necessary capital, you could find your grow operation in dire straits before you’ve even harvested your first crop of cannabis.

MMJ growers have extraordinarily unique real estate and capital requirements that commercial real estate professionals are mostly unable or unwilling to cater to. A grow operation needs land, they need specialized facilities equipped with energy-intensive lighting, irrigation systems, security and all kinds of expensive high tech and/or farming equipment. This is where real estate professional Kendell Lang offers to step in with his Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT), Fusion Properties Management Group, which doesn’t only provide single purpose real estate to state-licensed MMJ businesses, but also sales/leaseback agreements that can give these businesses the capital they need to grow.

“You need to be extremely familiar with the life sciences and with controlled environment agriculture to understand and anticipate the needs of MMJ grow operations,” explains Kendell Lang. “And then you need the capital to be able to give these MMJ businesses what they need. Here at Fusion Properties we do all of this. We can provide real estate with customized, turnkey growing facilities that meet the needs of the individual grower. We can buy a company’s property and lease it back to them, thereby freeing up the precious capital they could be using to fund the grow operation. We also supply proprietary construction materials that can undercut traditional costs by up to 50%.

“We listen carefully to our prospective tenant’s needs, we then sit down with them and plan a strategic course of action that caters explicitly to these needs and we make it happen,” says real estate professional Kendell Lang.

Lang also has an extensive history as a social media keynote speaker and with his experience in digital marketing, he gladly offers a hand to tenants to really help their business grow and prosper. “In this highly competitive industry, MMJ growers need to establish a brand and make that brand synonymous with quality, just as Levi’s have done for jeans and Coca Cola for soft drinks,” explains Kendell Lang. “A strategic digital marketing plan that leverages the power of social media can achieve this. Moreover, it can mean the difference between success and failure.”

Fusion Properties may specialize in single purpose real estate, construction and tenant improvements, but Kendell Lang, as a social media keynote speaker, knows how to help clients achieve massive success through online marketing and he extends this additional service to tenants of Fusion.

Contact Real Estate Professional Kendell Lang

If you are a state-licensed medical marijuana cultivator or manufacturer and would like to learn more about using social media to boost your business, or Fusion Properties’ real estate and construction services, contact Kendell Lang at +1 760 445 3315 or go to https://calendly.com/kendell-lang to schedule a discovery call.

Kendell Lang
CEO & Principal Investor
FUSION PROPERTIES MANAGEMENT GROUP, INC.
Oriental Center, Suite P1 | 254 Munoz Rivera Avenue | San Juan | Puerto Rico | 00918
Email: ceo@fusionproperties.us
Phone: +1 760 445 3315

You can see Kendell Lang live in action on his YouTube Channel or sign up for one of his Webinars Here. Learn more about his Consulting Services or even book this Social Media Keynote Speaker to present to your company or at one of your events!

Social Media Keynote Speaker Kendell Lang Explains How MMJ Operators Can Supercharge Their Digital Ranking

Social media is proven powerful ally in the realm of online marketing and business. Sites like Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest used to be a way to connect and share media with friends and family, but now they’re also fundamental portals through which businesses can promote themselves and cultivate positive relationships with customers. Getting started with social media, however, can prove tricky, especially for businesses without any experience in digital marketing. Without a foolproof and tailored strategy, a trial-and-error approach to social media marketing can become time-consuming, expensive and bear little fruit.

This is where a professional social media keynote speaker like Kendell Lang can be of tremendous value, especially for budding medical marijuana (MMJ) businesses and operators...

Specialized Social Media Strategy for MMJ Operators

With decades’ worth of experience in digital marketing and, with a finger firmly on the pulse of social media, Kendell deeply understands the importance of this marketing avenue. Furthermore, with his education, background and current business in the life sciences and particularly controlled environment agriculture, Kendell Lang has a lot to say to budding MMJ operators, growers, manufacturers and distributers on how to rise above a very challenging market that’s simply bursting with competitors.

“Medical marijuana businesses operate within a rapidly expanding industry with incredible opportunities,” says Kendell Lang, social media keynote speaker. “However, with all this potential comes steep competition. This is not even to mention the incredible challenges the average MMJ business faces, which is why MMJ operators need to get on board with social media marketing and establish themselves as a powerful brand with the best products.”

A MMJ Real Estate Company That Helps Its Tenants Succeed

Kendell Lang is not only a social media keynote speaker, he is also the founder and CEO of a Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) called Fusion Properties Management Group that provides high quality real estate and specialized MMJ facilities to state-licensed cannabis tenants. “We don’t just aim to provide marijuana-related businesses with the real estate and facilities they need, Fusion also wants to teach our tenants to be the best marketers they can be so that they can have the highest sales, best brands and largest market share,” explains social media keynote speaker, Kendell Lang.

What are the important aspects budding MMJ business should pay attention to with their marketing? Kendell Lang provides a few tips...

• Listen to and Interact with your Audience: “Social media is about two-way communication with your audience. Engage them, respond to them, even if their message or comment is bad,” says Kendell. “Don’t only use social media as a way to disseminate information. Make your audience like you by presenting the personality behind the brand.”

• Build a Focused Social Media Strategy Based on Quality: “Your social media marketing strategy should be highly goal-orientated and focused,” says social media keynote speaker, Kendell Lang. “The minute you lose focus is the minute you start wasting dollars and time. Also, quality outplays quantity in the arena of social media. All the content you post should be high quality, engaging and sharable.”

• Determine Important Industry Influencers: “You can piggyback your exposure onto the popularity of major industry players, which we call ‘social media influencers’. Spend a little time finding the online influencers in your market, people whose names are known throughout the industry and who have major audiences on social media. By mentioning these names in your content and linking to their sites, you’re more likely to catch their attention and possibly even build a relationship with them.”

• Be Consistent and Accessible: “Establish a content publishing calendar to ensure that you post regularly and remain visible and front-of-mind with your audience,” explains social media keynote speaker, Kendell Lang. “If your brand cannot be easily found by your market, you’ll simply make way for your competitors. Be visible, post regularly, respond to comments and establish a conversation with your market.”

In Conclusion

All businesses, but especially MMJ businesses need to embrace social media marketing if they’re to secure themselves a lion’s share of the market. There are bountiful opportunities available in this budding industry but only smart social media strategy will enable businesses to overcome the challenges and enjoy incredible success.

Contact Social Media Keynote Speaker Kendell Lang

Kendell Lang
CEO & Principal Investor
FUSION PROPERTIES MANAGEMENT GROUP, INC.
Oriental Center, Suite P1 | 254 Munoz Rivera Avenue | San Juan | Puerto Rico | 00918
Email: ceo@fusionproperties.us
Phone: +1 760 445 3315

If you are a state-licensed medical marijuana cultivator or manufacturer and would like to learn more about using social media to supercharge your online visibility and rankings, contact social media keynote speaker Kendell Lang at +1 760 445 3315.

You can see Kendell Lang live in action on his YouTube Channel or sign up for one of his Webinars Here. Learn more about his Consulting Services or even book this Social Media Keynote Speaker to present to your company or at one of your events!

You can also go to https://calendly.com/kendell-lang to schedule a discovery call.

Social Media Strategies That Work: Social Media Expert Kendell Lang Shares Trade Secrets

Social media expert, Kendell Lang, reveals his trade secrets for effective and lucrative social media marketing strategies that work for businesses of all sizes and within all industries.

A strategic social media marketing plan is fundamental in building a phenomenal online presence. If you do it right you can go from a “nobody” to a social media sensation and celebrity, literally overnight. The same can be said for businesses of all sizes and within all industries. “A smart social media marketing strategy has the power to distinguish you from your steepest competition, even if you’re a small start-up business,” says Kendell Lang, a social media expert and keynote speaker from Del Mar, California.

And that’s the bottom line, really: businesses that use social media intelligently can drive more traffic to their websites and see more sales in a shorter period of time than traditional advertising. “If you’re not leveraging the power of social media, you’re getting left behind,” says Kendell Lang, who reveals a few of his trade secrets here...

Trade Secrets From a Social Media Keynote Speaker

In this incredible connected world, businesses are using the plethora of social media platforms to engage with past, present and prospective customers, reinforce their brand messaging, influence customer opinions and provide customers with better, more efficient service, amongst others. These outcomes are tantalizing but designing a strategic social media marketing plan that can deliver these outcomes isn’t a one-size-fits-all effort.

This is why experience in the realm of social media and marketing is crucial. It’s also why experienced social media experts like Kendell Lang are coveted by businesses wanting to take the leap into the social era of digital marketing. We asked Kendell what he finds to be the keys to success in social media marketing...

Identify Your Social Media Marketing Goals & Target Audience

“You’ve got to identify your goals. You can only design the perfect social media strategy with a high return on investment if you truly understand the goals you’re trying to achieve. Of course, the ultimate goal is to increase revenue, but you need to define shorter-term, achievable goals that will become the milestones that guide you towards that ultimate success. For example, increase Facebook followers to 50,000.

“Another key to success is to really identify and define your target audience. Reduce everything you know about them to an archetype personality or set of archetypes. Who are they? You’ve got to understand who your customers are so that your social media marketing will speak to them,” says social media expert Kendell Lang.

Start The Conversation & See What Your Competitors are Doing

“Businesses and brands that use social media as a two-way communication medium tend to have far more success,” says Kendell Lang. “Reply to messages and comments, answer questions and acknowledge feedback, both bad and good. If you don’t have time, hire a social media administrator. Your audience wants to see the humanity behind the brand and if you come across as personable and helpful, you’ll have them hooked for life.”

Another extremely useful tip is to refer to your competition’s social media efforts for guidance. “Don’t be afraid to look at what your successful competitors are doing, their Facebook page, its presentation, the content on it and how your competitors engage with their fans and followers,” says social media expert Kendell Lang. “Why learn from your own mistakes when you can learn from your competitors’ success?”

Businesses that incorporate the best practices in their social media strategy can benefit enormously, seeing measurable increases in brand awareness, lead conversion, brand advocacy, customer satisfaction and ultimately, revenue!

Contact Kendell Lang, Social Media Expert

If you are looking for a Social Media Keynote Speaker that can show real-time results, Kendell Lang’s dynamic, leading edge, and knowledge-packed digital marketing presentations provide you with solutions that can be immediately implemented. Contact Kendell today to learn more about how he can coach you into marketing success!

Email: ceo@worldclass.com
Call Toll Free: +1 866 347 3321
Phone: +1 760 445 3315
Fax: +1 866 347 3321

You can see Kendell Lang live in action on his YouTube Channel or sign up for one of his Webinars Here. Learn more about his Consulting Services or even Book this Social Media Expert to speak to your company or at one of your events!

Online Scams Proliferating - Economic Hard Times Make People More Vulnerable

WorldClass Brand Management can Protect Your Reputation

I'm certain you all have been inundated with classical Nigerian email scams, and I hope you are all staying alert with respect to new and ingenious variations on a variety of scams.  These scams can impact your online reputation so please consider this free information about protecting your online reputation with simple reputation management solutions.

As I have two college-age kids, I am trying to teach them how to protect themselves from online predators. Not just sexual predators, but financial predators who will stop at nothing to extract both dollars and information in any way possible.

I was asked recently what advice I would give to friends and family about protecting reputations online, so here's what I recommended. The SocialSphere is a whole new world with all kinds of opportunities and benefits, as well as some serious challenges. There are really three major pieces of advice I'd give:

1. Don't ever put ANYTHING on the Internet that you're not absolutely sure you're willing to have the entire world see. Words or pictures. Once it's on the net it is NEVER coming off. Assume that everything you post is eventually going to be read in front of a judge and a jury, that should keep you out of trouble.

2. Don't trust ANYONE on the Internet. It sounds cynical, but you have to start from a baseline that NO ONE is telling the truth and that everything should be suspect. There are so many crooks and fraudsters who are very bright and they are constantly coming up with ways to trick, cheat and steal.

3. Monitor your Name: setup a Google alert with every variation of your name you can think of, "firstname middlename lastname", "firstname lastname", "firstname", "lastname", "marriedname", "maidenname", "nickname." Make sure to look at all the alerts and link through to each one, it could save your reputation.

I monitor my kids names, and recently got an alert saying that their name had been found in a U.S. Court system. As I researched it, it was a Hungarian marketing company acting as a reseller for an Oregon based data company who basically uses this strategy to get you to sign up for their service so you can supposedly see what the U.S. Court has on you. This is a serious offense which I'm pursuing with my attorney...akin to the newest version of cyber-identity theft...but worse, reputation theft and character assassination by implication. They are using psychological intimidation and veiled threats of the U.S. Court system to try and induce unsuspecting or naive individuals (in this case, my kids...who don't know any better) to sign up for their so-called "service" for a fee. They are hoping that the kids will be so scared and worried about what might be on the court records (whether or not there's anything there) that they'll sign up and pay the fee just to answer a question that in the case of my kids doesn't need an answer.

I am dead serious on this issue and am now an unbelievably ticked off dad who is going to take these guys to the mat. They now know that I'm a dog and they are the bone. Stay tuned and I'll keep you posted about how this turns out.

Another recent example is an email I got as follows:

r u doing okay ? Kendell‏
From: Mariam Gabriel (hello_strawberry@hotmail.com)
Sent: Thu 1/28/10 5:00 AM
To: virtualcio@hotmail.com

where have you been Kendell

thought about you the other day, i thought that i saw you over by taco bell.

can u please give me your opinion on this it's set up over here, http://www.theknifecardpro2.com/8564447/Kendell

u know who
===============
Even though this was in my spam folder and even though I know it's a scam, I decided to explore what they were promoting so I could share with you what's going on. Now, when you click through to www.theknifecardpro2.com it appears to be a legitimate ecard site, interestingly titled "Crush Greetings." If you click on the "Contact Us" or any other link on the site, the URL auto-rotates to www.adorecards.com.

Here is the registration information for the Netherlands-based company behind the URL of www.theknifecardpro2.com:

Owner Contact:
Emile Aarts emile.aarst@yahoo.com

Keislagen 76
Breda, 4823 KM, NL

Punycode Name: theknifecardpro2.com
Unicode Name: theknifecardpro2.com

Admin Contact
Emile Aarts


Keislagen 76
Breda, 4823 KM, NL
phone: +31 768884191

Technical Contact
Hostmaster Strato Rechenzentrum hostmaster@cronon-isp.net
Cronon AG Professional IT-Services

Emmy-Noether-Str. 10
Karlsruhe, D-76131, DE
phone: +49 72166320305

Zone Contact
Hostmaster Strato Rechenzentrum
Cronon AG Professional IT-Services

Emmy-Noether-Str. 10
Karlsruhe, D-76131, DE
phone: +49 72166320305

Record expires on: 2011-01-19 22:30:20

Domain servers in listed order:

shades10.rzone.de
docks16.rzone.de

Registrant Search:"Emile Aarts" owns about 295 other domains and his Email is associated with about 291 domains.

Here is the registration information for the URL of www.adorecards.com:

Registration Service Provided By: APM
Contact: +305.3205512

Domain Name: ADORECARDS.COM

Registrant:
Brandon Debois
Brandon Debois (skrilled@gmail.com)
437 P Dotnis Rd
Orlando
Florida,32835
US
Tel. +407.5551782

Creation Date: 04-Mar-2009
Expiration Date: 04-Mar-2010

Domain servers in listed order:
ns2.adorecards.com
ns1.adorecards.com

Administrative Contact:
Brandon Debois
Brandon Debois ()
437 P Dotnis Rd
Orlando
Florida,32835
US
Tel. +407.5551782

Technical Contact:
Brandon Debois
Brandon Debois ()
437 P Dotnis Rd
Orlando
Florida,32835
US
Tel. +407.5551782

Billing Contact:
Brandon Debois
Brandon Debois ()
437 P Dotnis Rd
Orlando
Florida,32835
US
Tel. +407.5551782

Status:ACTIVE

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When I input the Pickup Code included in the email, here's what I find:

E-Card
Message:

Kendell,

This is difficult for me to do because I'm shy.. but I have a crush on you. I've
never been able to tell you for reasons which you would quickly identify as
obvious if you knew who this was. With that said, I want you to guess who I am,
and approach me yourself.

To help you out with your guessing I made a few pictures and videos with ''Kendell''
written on my body. They're kind of risque photos so I had to make a profile at
CAM SPACE ONLINE dot COM and post them there. I made my username on the site
''KendellandME09''. (It's a free website but you might need a CC or Debit to
verify your age because I had to. Sigh.)

But anyway sign up at
CAM SPACE ONLINE dot COM and once you are inside search for ''KendellandME09''. I
want you to guess who I am and then approach me yourself. I'm shy and this is
the bravest thing I've probably ever done, but you need to do the rest.

Kisses,
Secret Admirer?
haha. Bye

=====================

Here is the registration information for the URL of http://www.cam space online dot com:

Registrant:

None
Long Matt
4200 Castle Cove
Kissimmee, FL 34746
US
+1.4072010555

Administrative Contact:
None
Long Matt
4200 Castle Cove
Kissimmee, FL 34746
US
+1.4072010555

Technical Contact:
None
Long Matt
4200 Castle Cove
Kissimmee, FL 34746
US
+1.4072010555

Billing Contact
None
Long Matt
4200 Castle Cove
Kissimmee, FL 34746
US
+1.4072010555

Registrar..: gkg.net (http://register.gkg.net/)
Domain Name: CAMSPACEONLINE.COM
Created on..............: 06-JAN-2010
Expires on..............: 06-JAN-2011
Record last updated on..: 06-JAN-2010
Status..................: ACTIVE
Domain servers in listed order:
NS1.CAMSPACEONLINE dot COM
NS2.CAMSPACEONLINE dot COM

Of course this leads to pornography website which tries to entice you to sign up for a "FREE" membership which only requires that you give them either a credit card number or a check.  Yea RIGHT!

This all may be technically legal...but it's just not right.  Although I doubt there's going to be any pursuit of these shady operators, I have filed a complaint with the Florida Attorney General at:

Office of the Attorney General

PL-01 The Capitol
Tallahassee, Florida 32399-1050
Telephone: (850) 414-3990
Toll Free within Florida: 1-866-966-7226
They have an online complaint submission form at http://myfloridalegal.com/Contact.nsf/Contact?OpenForm&Section=Economic_Crimes
I have included below a link to the Florida Attorney General Website at http://myfloridalegal.com/, and it is interesting to note that they highlight the following scams:

Protecting Yourself from Consumer Fraud

This page will guide you to useful tools and tips for protecting yourself from consumer fraud.

• Advance Fee Loans
• Art Fraud
• Auto Repair Fraud
• Automobile Repossession
• Business Opportunities
• Buying A New Car
• Buying A Used Car
• Car Ads
• Car Financing
• Car Leasing
• Car Rental
• Carpet Cleaners
• Caskets and Burial Vaults
• Charitable Solicitations
• Checking Account Numbers
• Chronic and Persistent Car Trouble
• Cool-Off Rule
• Cosigning A Loan
• Cosmetic Surgery
• Credit Card Bills
• Credit Card Fraud
• Credit Repair and Debt Relief Services
• Dance Studios
• Debt Collection
• Electronic Equipment and Repair
• Eyeglasses and Contact Lenses
• Fair Credit Reporting
• Food Advertising/Labeling
• Foreign Lottery
• "Gas Saving" Products
• Gemstone Investment Schemes
• Going Out of Business
• "Gold" Credit Cards
• Health Studios
• Health Fraud
• Holiday Buying
• Identity Theft
• Infomercials
• Internet Email
• Internet Shopping
  Investing In Precious Metals
  Investing in Wireless Cable
  Invention Promotion Firms
  Job Listing and Job Search Firms
  Land Sales Scams
  Lawn Service Contracts
  Lottery Fraud
  Mortgage Foreclosures
  Movers
  Multilevel Marketing
  Negative Option Marketing Plans
  Nigerian 419
  Odometer Fraud
  Overpayment Scams
  Overseas Job Firms
  Phishing
  Price Gouging After A Hurricane
  Rain Checks
  Rare Coin Investment Schemes
  Real Estate Brokers
  Recovery Room Scams
  Service Contracts
  Small Business Scams
  Sweepstakes
  Shopping By Mail Or Phone
  Smoking Cures
  SPAM
  Tax Evasion Schemes
  Telemarketing
  Title Loans
  Toy Ads On TV
  Timeshare Sales and Resales
  Unordered Merchandise
  Unsolicited Facsimile Transmissions
  Vacation Certificates
  Varicose Vein Treatments
  Water Treatment Devices
  Weight Loss Programs
  Work-At-Home Schemes
  Worthless Bank Checks
  Yellow Pages Invoice Scam
  "800" Prefix Telephone Services
  "900" Prefix Telephone Services

For additional information on protecting yourself from consumer fraud please visit our Consumer Links page.

Hopefully you find this information useful and if you are interested in professional reputation protection and online reputation management, please contact me at 760.445.3315.

Book Proposal Query Letter - Copyright 2010 - All Rights Reserved

Query Letter Book Proposal

(c) Copyright 2010, Kendell Lang, All Rights Reserved

Dear Publisher:

I am ready to submit a detailed book proposal for "Gardner's of Eden: Quest for the God Particle" so I look forward to hearing back from you once you've had a chance to review this proposal.

BOOK TITLE                                                                                     

Gardner's of Eden: Quest for the God Particle

BOOK SUMMARY                                                                           

Logline: All secret societies have a beginning. This is the original secret society from which all others were born.

Before the Seven Society, the Skull and Bones or Scroll and Key, before the Japanese Yakuza, the Italian or Russian Mafia, before the Priory of Sion, the Illuminati, Opus Dei, the Knights Templar or the Free Mason Society, and...even before the Nine Unknown, a more ancient secret society had been formed.

The Gardner's of Eden.

This is the predecessor to all secret societies. Initiated shortly after the birth of creation itself, this group was genetically programmed to protect and hide a world-changing secret.

Many prophecies talk about world-ending scenarios, but this secret holds the key to the beginning of eternity. A secret that God himself did not want revealed.

Throughout the ages a select group of guardians has been tasked to protect the Garden of Eden and to keep secret the location of the sacred Tree of Life. Unlike Ponce de León's quest for the Fountain of Youth, historical documentation and current scientific research point to the existence of the ultimate fountain of youth. The facts being revealed in this story are historically validated, independently researched and independently verifiable.

THE PROBLEM: Programmed Cell Death ("PCD")                             

Let's put this first into a simple context to which everyone can relate. Salmon. Everyone knows what happens to salmon...they live for 4 years in the ocean, find their way back up to the stream where they were spawned, lay their eggs and die. They die from programmed cell death...PCD. If you catch salmon right after they spawn... you find they have huge adrenal glands, peptic ulcers, and kidney lesions, their immune systems have collapsed... and they have stupendously high glucocorticoid concentrations in their bloodstreams. When salmon spawn, regulation of their glucocorticoid secretion breaks down... But is the glucocorticoid excess really responsible for their death? Yep. Take a salmon right after spawning, remove its adrenals, and it will live for a year afterward.

Seems pretty straightforward, right? Not quite so. Human beings go through a much more complex programmed cell death, but this too has been the subject of much research. For those who believe in the Bible it provides both an answer to human death, and eternal life...if you eat from the Tree of Life, you live forever. Something in the fruit of the tree of life reverses the curse of death.

There is a genetic code that triggers PCD and a theoretical equal and opposite genetic code that switches off PCD. It is the potential to reverse the genetic code of PCD that has led to the quest for the "God particle."

From a scientific perspective Programmed Cell Death ("PCD") - is the deliberate suicide of an unwanted cell in a multicellular organism, also known as Phenoptosis (pheno - showing or displaying a type, ptosis - programmed death) signifies the programmed death of an organism, ie that its biology includes features that under certain circumstances will cause it to degenerate and die off. Phenoptosis is a common feature of living beings, whose ramifications for humans is still being explored. What was once thought to be a simplistic linear genetic pathway to cellular death has now evolved into a much more highly evolved understanding of an intertwined complex systems structure, with the ultimate code still yet to be unlocked.

Billions of dollars have been spent searching for the key to unlock this mystery, and the public presentation of what is being done from a research perspective is a very different story from the reality of the lengths and depths that corporate profiteers will go to gain control of the secret.

THE QUEST: Search for God Particle                                                

Two parallel tubes one hundred meters below Geneva's western suburbs carry high-energy particles, protons, in opposite directions around the tunnel at close to the speed of light. In a dimly lit tunnel that runs in a circle for 27km (17 miles), at the foot of the Jura Mountains, where Switzerland meets France, is a laboratory so vast it boggles the mind. The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is an impossibly complicated machine that smashes atomic particles together at super-fast speeds.

The belief is that this science has the potential to unlock the secrets of the Universe. By recreating the searing-hot conditions believed to have been necessary to have accounted for the Big Bang, Jacard Rouseau intends to disprove the existence of the "God particle." What he is about to discover... gives new dimensions to science that could unravel the very framework of organized religion.

Zachariah Madison was very clear about the implications for the value of his stock in Viagitas. If there truly is a fruit which contains a formula by which PCD can be forever wiped out, think about the ramifications! The economic value for this formula would dwarf the current value of the top 1000 wealthiest pharmaceutical companies, and in fact would likely wipe them off the map in terms of why they would even need to exist any longer. Could the existence of this fruit be true? The scientific community is driving research at a level that is making astonishing strides towards understanding the mechanisms of PCD, and ultimately how to retard and potentially reverse or eliminate PCD altogether. Man becomes god and reverses the curse of death, that's what they're really after. The Quest for Immortality. But what if this offer of access to this fabled tree of life is for real? Is it possible that Jake really found it?

The public debate about stem cell research and cloning is just a shadow of the real debate and the real battles going on far below the public radar screen. This truly is a question about eternity, regardless of your fundamental belief system...and people are killing to control it.

THE CONSPIRACY                                                                        

This secret society, the Gardner's, is convinced that man, regardless of advances in science and technology should not be allowed to succeed in discovering the formula to eradicate PCD. They believe there is a spiritual destiny where God is in control of the finite lifespan of Mother Earth, and that until God's ultimate plan to forever solve the battle between good and evil, the search for the fountain of youth or the cure to PCD will be ongoing. They believe that God has tasked them with keeping secret the location of the Garden of Eden and its' precious grove containing the Tree of Life, and that the very success of God's ultimate plan rests on their ability to protect this secret.

Jake Backster is convinced that his years of investment in Life Science companies have been for naught. Although fame and fortune have come his way because of his success in a variety of biotechnology innovations, he just can't let go of the idea that there's something very simple that he's missed all these years. Even though Jake is an avowed Agnostic, he has uncovered a mystery which has led him to the conclusion that there is no other possibility than that the Garden of Eden exists and the Tree of Life inside that Garden holds the key for which he's been searching. Jake is the master of alliances and double cross. His ability to enlist what would otherwise be mortal enemies is part of his chameleon character. He also possesses a unique ability to move through political networks which give him access to resources not usually available. He is going to have to work fast to pull off the perfect plan.

Given enough time and enough diligence, every conspiracy can be uncovered, and that has been the quest on which Jake now finds himself. To uncover the hidden location of the Garden of Eden and find the Tree of Life. The Gardner's of Eden have been protecting that location since the beginning of recorded time. This secret society has been tasked with protecting the hidden location of the Garden of Eden, and to keep safe the location of the tree of life.

THE HEROINE: Archeologist Heroine                                                

As a staunch believer in the historical validity of the Bible, Michelle is convinced that the Garden of Eden still exists. Her theology is now on a collision course with her profession.

If the Garden truly exists, does her professional responsibility take a back seat to her personal beliefs? Should the existence of the Garden be revealed? What does she know about the Garden of Eden? The only thing she can glean from the Bible concerning the Garden of Eden's location is found in Genesis 2:10-14;

"A river watering the garden flowed from Eden;
from there it was separated into four headwaters.

The name of the first is the Pishon;
it winds through the entire land of Havilah, where

there is gold...The name of the second river is the Gihon; it winds through

the entire land of Cush. The name of the third river is the Tigris;

it runs along the east side of Asshur. And the fourth river is the Euphrates."

The exact identities of the Pishon and Havilah rivers is unknown, but the Tigris and Euphrates rivers are well known. If the Tigris and Euphrates mentioned there are the same rivers by those names today, that would put the Garden of Eden somewhere in the middle east, likely in Iraq.

People have searched for the Garden of Eden for centuries to no avail. There are various locations that people claim to be the original location of the Garden of Eden, but one thing Michelle is sure about, they haven't found it yet.

What happened to the Garden of Eden? The Bible does not specifically say. If it exists, do the cherubim's still guard and protect access to the tree of life? Who are the cherubim's and are they truly the guardian's of this eternal secret? The existence of Cherubims has been documented throughout the ages, including during the time of Noah, Moses and at the crucifixion of Christ. All through Israel's history of the Temple in Jerusalem and the Tabernacle, two giant Cherubims guarded the holiest of holies containing the Ark of the Covenant.

Michelle is at the right place at the wrong time...Iraq is not the place to be for a brunette, tiger-eyed female who looks like she just finished a photo shoot for the next Laura Croft movie. The dichotomy of a sexy archeologist would be trouble on any continent, but Michelle's about to find out what Shiria law is all about.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR                                                                    

What Qualifies Me? I am a technical entrepreneur with deep industry knowledge providing verifiable science and research to give validity to my writings. I have been published in numerous industry and trade association publications and technical white papers. I am currently writing two other books, non-fiction titled "HyperDistribution: How to Market to Young Adults" and another titled "Journey of a Lifetime: Young Adult Travel Adventures". I am a subject matter expert in software development, online marketing and have obtained industry recognition for Search Engine Optimization, including having written extensively about search engine ranking. I am credited with coining the phrase "hyperdistribution" which is a new online method of marketing which is described in detail in my proposal and the subject of one of my other non-fiction books. I have authored numerous internal company publications, dozens of business plans, executive summaries for successful investor offerings and numerous policy manuals. I have written for numerous websites, including writing the website www.pattilang.com, a six year journey chronicling my late wife's battle against brain cancer. I have also written the website content for www.JourneyofaLifetime.com. I am a published author for a cookbook titled, "Cicciotti's Kitchen" Italian Family Favorites, featuring Gaetano Cicciotti.

One of the key elements to consider when evaluating whether to represent me and this book is the subject matter expertise I bring to the table. As a seasoned entrepreneur with direct industry experience in the areas covered by this book, I bring credibility to the information provided. The immersive style of scientific detail and a penchant for facts which can all be independently verified gives an unusually reality that stands up to the most critical reader. There is also the considerable momentum the author can contribute to the overall marketing of the book through a comprehensive distribution strategy which supports and enhances all the traditional book distribution opportunities. In addition to developing traditional and interesting publicity hooks and novel selling approaches, the author is uniquely qualified to bring about a new distribution method for this guidebook, including;

• HyperDistribution (peer-to-peer platform networking)
• DVD Distribution
• Broadband and Viral Distribution
• Search Engine Distribution

TARGET AUDIENCE                                                                           

The market for action adventure fiction novels is mature and sophisticated. Finding a quality piece of work that can pass the test of this discerning audience is certainly the opportunity.

The reader's of New York Times Best-Selling adventure authors is a highly prized demographic.

Angels and Demons meets Tom Clancy meets Doomsday thriller where biblical myths collide with biotechnology and scientific advances, where a normal guy superhero stands between special ops supermen and their limitless funders who provide more high tech weapons than a Chronicles of Riddick flick.

The audience is going to find a premise that is simultaneously plausible, historically and scientifically valid and yet edge-of-the-seat thriller fantastic.

COMPETING TITLES                                                                        

This list of titles and authors in the action adventure novel and intelligence thrillers arena is long and distinguished. This adventure thriller is characterized by action, fast pace, plot twists and a resourceful heroine who must overcome overwhelming odds to outwit more-powerful and better-equipped villains. My writing includes suspense, red herrings and cliffhangers used to keep readers engaged. This story winds through a fascinatingly complex transformation through a dramatic rendering of reality, science, psychology, and political intrigue all woven together in new ways for a sensory-starved audience.

The Gardner's of Eden is different because the author is different. The story is honed from personal experience, personal knowledge and from personal tragedy. Each chapter weaves a plausible, unique and compelling story, all immersively tied to the visual anchors of validating almost every component of the story easily navigated by searching the web. For those reader's who were mesmerized by the likes of Tom Clancy, James Rollins, Michael Crichton, Nelson DeMille, Dan Brown or James Clavell, the Gardner's of Eden will insure that a new and vibrant writer has joined the ranks of this celebrated list.

The Gardner's of Eden is part of an emerging genre of web-supported reality novels where readers can visit actual locations, confirm scientific reports and verify corporate investments in life science technologies that are current and compelling. There are signs of this emerging market trend to focus on reality-based novels, for example:

• Tom Clancy - the Hunt for Red October (shockingly detailed and accurate with what was supposed to be classified information at the time), Red Storm Rising, Debt of Honor, Clear and Present Danger, Patriot Games and The Sum of All Fears.
• James Rollins - the Sigma Series (Sandstorm, Map of Bones, Black Order, The Judas Strain, The Last Oracle and The Doomsday Key), and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.
• Dan Brown - Digital Fortress, Angels & Demons, Deception Point, The Da Vinci Code, The Lost Symbol.
• Nelson DeMille - By the Rivers of Babylon, Mayday, Cathedral, The Talbot Odyssey, Word of Honor, The Charm School, The Gold Coast, The General's Daughter, Plum Island, The Lion's Game, Up Country, Night Fall, Wild Fire and The Gate House.

Yet none of these authors have fully delivered on the online integration of story elements. While there was illustrated version of the Da Vinci Code, and an illustrated coffee table guidebook to the locations and artworks, it really didn't hit the high mark of total online integration. This is more than just a special movie tie-in version of the novel. What I am proposing to deliver is essentially a digital online book that has almost every major piece of technical or scientific information hyper-linked for easy and immediate resourcing.

SPECIAL MARKETING                                                                   

Embedded Advertising is becoming more and more sophisticated. Theatrical release of the most recent James Bond movie embedded everything from Omega watch advertising to Ford. The restaurant chain Cheesecake Factory now embeds advertising from sponsors in their menus! I am proposing a novel approach to partner with our publisher and to obtain upfront embedded advertising from select Product Sponsors.

Because this is a global thriller encouraging travel and accommodations, seven main Product Sponsorship areas of focus (not including ancillary product placements) are priorities for this book: Airlines, Hotels, Rental Cars, Search Engines, Computers, Beverages and Clothing. Please see the Product Partners section for more details about each of these opportunities.

In addition to the Product Sponsorship, we are working with a highly specialized Media Services organization which is helping us prepare a sophisticated and comprehensive viral and hyper distribution marketing strategy.

Most 18-year-old students, our Digital Youth, entering the graduating class of 2010 this fall were born in 1990. They grew up with a cell phone in one hand, a mouse in the other and a computer screen as part of their worldview. They learned to surf the internet as they learned to read. While they were still in their cribs, the 20th century started to close as the Berlin Wall came down, the Soviet bloc disintegrated, and frequent traditional wars in Latin America gave way to the uncontrolled terrors of the Middle East. For them: Billy Carter, Lucille Ball, Gilda Radner, Billy Martin, Andy Gibb, and Secretariat have always been dead. This year's entering students form a generation that has always been 'connected' and is used to things happening in 'real time,' like live satellite coverage of revolutions and wars, instant messaging and movies on demand. They expect solutions for every problem, from baldness to diseased organs. To the chagrin of traditional media outlets, they've developed their own generational means of communication. If you don't know how to reach this audience through podcasting or webisodes, you'll never understand how this next generation of readers is going to find and read works of interest.

HyperDistribution: a distribution channel utilizing a variety of peer-to-peer technologies which is even more efficient at reaching a target audience than any single method of channel distribution such as print, email, video, social networking, direct mail, network and online broadcasting. If you don't know what HyperDistribution is, then you don't know about YouTube, Facebook or Twitter. If you've never checked out online content forums and social media sites like Digg, Reddit, StumbleUpon, Del.icio.us and Newsvine, then you'll need to explore those to understand what's going on.

Thank you for taking the time to consider this Book Proposal.



I wait in eager anticipation for your call.


Best personal regards,


Kendell Lang

"THE MAN IS BECOME AS ONE OF US ... now lest he put forth his hand and take also of the Tree of Life, and eat and live forever: ... he placed at the east of the Garden of Eden Cherubims and a flaming sword which turned every way to keep the way of the tree of life"...."And on either side of the river there was the Tree of Life which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations...Blessed are they that do His Commandments that they might have right to the Tree of Life and may enter in through the gates into the City," Genesis 3:22,24; Revelation 22:2,14.

Fountain of Eternal Youth

Journey of our Lifetimes - A Father's Encouragement

Journey of Our Lifetimes

Sometimes Together, Sometimes Apart

Memories, Transition & Change

To My Dearest Children,

As I’ve shared with you before, the reality of change is a constant in our lives, and as we embark on yet another new part of this “journey of a lifetime”, I want to share a few thoughts of encouragement and hope. While there has been unbelievable, almost unbearable amount of stress in the recent months, there is also intense joy and the opportunity to shape how we think about our circumstances.

Each of our lives is marked by transitions. Transitions are the markers by which we know change is either upon us, or coming. As I’ve done before, I again want to encourage you both to embrace change and learn how to think positively about transitions and to not have fear as you head into the unknown.

The home in San Bernardino where we lived from when you were born was a comfortable place where your Mom and I created many great memories of your earliest years. We loved to travel and used this home as a base from which to take some incredible journeys. Mom and I went on a delayed honeymoon to Australia when she was already pregnant with our baby boy. We ended up going on John and Shauna’s honeymoon to Europe when Mom was pregnant with our baby girl, and Grandma stayed in our home to take care of our boy. The time we spent together in the home were special moments of rocking you in the blue recliner, swimming with Pappa in the pool, riding the tractor around the deck with Grande’, playing with Midgy and Blacky and getting sticks of gum from George across the street. The imprinting of Sandy and Chrissy as nannies to you while your Mom went back to work was a large part of where you got rhythm and soul. We also experienced a transition and change in this home when we reached the decision to have Mom stop working so she could be home full time to raise you both. We started you traveling early from this home, including trips to Seattle for holidays, accompanying me on business trips and vacations where we took Grandma and Pappa to Hawaii where our baby boy took his first steps.

The first transition from one home to another in your young lives was the move from San Bernardino to Seattle when I was on contract for Weyerhaeuser. During that year, we packed up the whole house and moved into a little house in the woods on the land around the headquarters. It was tall pine trees, rainy and windy, with lots of visits to Grandma’s home for family gatherings at holidays, opening season for fishing, Propeller Club chow downs with Uncle Bill and Easter egg hunts with the cousins. We had rented out the house in San Bernardino, and moved back when my contract was done.

We got settled again in the home in San Bernardino and had gone through a lot of transitions during that year. When we got back into the one story rambler in Del Rosa Heights, there were great life events spent in a place that gave a framework for our memories. We have lots of pictures of a variety of events in that home, and they will always be etched in our memories. That home was the platform from which we created our memories and lived our dreams for that time in our lives. But we transitioned out of that home. The second transition in your young lives was the move from San Bernardino to San Diego.

When we started to see the decline of the area where we lived, and got tired of dealing with the commute for me to get to work, and were worried about the health impacts of living in smog all the time…we made a conscious choice to look for another place to live and we were just drawn to San Diego. We didn’t know anyone in San Diego; we had no family, no friends…just a few experiences of visiting San Diego and windsurfing in Mission Bay, bicycling around the Bay and Mom visiting the Jazzercise headquarters in Carlsbad.

It is hard to believe we bought the Lone Jack house in 1993. We moved in at the end of the year in December. In fact we flew up to Seattle for Christmas that year and came back after the New Year to start a new phase of our lives in a new town, a new home. We were excited to embark on a new phase of our lives, and we had many hopes for this new start. As you look at our family pictures from this time you can see the joy and excitement of going through all these new adventures.

Although you have a few formative memories of San Bernardino, the majority of your life memories are now firmly marked by the architecture of the home we shared together for almost 16 years. Most of your young life transitions have been supported and made safe by having this family dwelling. Your rooms were almost an extension of your personalities and knowing that you had that constant in your lives gave you incredible confidence and reassurance. As you have gone through various transitions, moving from pre-school to lower school, then graduating to middle school, and then moving into high school…each of those transitions was marked by some kind of change. Yet a constant throughout that time was our home. We used that home as a base camp from which to explore the world, literally and figuratively. We used that home as an Oasis to which we escaped and regrouped and regained our sense of balance. That home was the place where you temporarily transitioned from full time school at Santa Fe Christian and were blessed with probably the best three years of education when you had Mom as your teacher during the years where she home schooled you. I will never forget the times when Grandpa Ted was able to share those lesson times and how much he enjoyed just being around. Not only did our home protect us from physical storms, it also protected us from the storms in life: the school fights, the traumas of broken friendships, the final exams, the teenage years and the transition to young adulthood.

That physical structure, more than just the structure of a house, but a home saw you both through a wide array of challenging life transitions, and you have come through all of them with your “selves” intact and ready to take on the next challenge. Although no where near the tragedy of losing your Mom in 2007, you have had exposure to other losses, including the loss of Blackie, the loss of Grandma Doris in 1990, the death of my cousins Donnie in 1992 and Stacey in 2002, the death of Grandpa Ted in 1999, and the passing of Pappa in 2003. Because you were so young, the impact of these losses were much less significant for you.

The transition of losing Mom over two and a half years ago now, marked yet another huge milestone for each of us. That was a transition and change that was out of order in the expected sequence of life. It just shouldn’t have been Mom’s time to go. Yet we trust in God’s timing for this change. Each of us has been changed in different ways and we are each working through what all this change means in our lives…but we were blessed to have been able to do that from the comfort of the home where we shared so much. Now that home is no longer ours. We have transitioned into a new home with many open questions swirling around us. As we struggle to figure out what this next phase of “normal” looks like, we are all about to face yet another transition which is going to require us to accept change and figure out how to think appropriately about what all this means.

As both of you experienced your first two years of college on a journey which took you away from home into the dorms at your respective universities, I can’t help but remind you about the physical framework around what you experienced. You took bits and pieces of your rooms and transplanting them into temporary housing were you figured out how to create a new sense of “place” in someplace that became your transitional home. How you thought about that change was in large part what shaped your experience for the first two years. With the financial uncertainties staring us in the face, I want to encourage you to shape your thinking about our current circumstances with optimism for all the great memories you have created in those first two years. It is okay to have reservations about what might be coming, and you will also need to figure out how to think about all this with an expanded knowledge of money, relationships and everything else life is throwing at us. The sadness can and does co-exist with the joy and excitement.

I want you both to always embrace any change in your life with a sense of optimism and excitement, knowing that we will always have each other, unconditionally loved, no questions asked and without judgment. That is the strangeness of unconditional love, that you can experience it, lose it, be overwhelmed by it and be in it all while keeping your perspective that whatever it is…it is just as integral a part of your life as your blood. You cannot live without it and you will always need it.

I am blessed to have shepherded you for this part of your journey. I hope to be a continuing resource and cheerleader for you as you experience more, different and new changes, and I will do my best to be available for as long as God intends.

As for me, I’m sure of one thing: No matter what happens in the future, regardless of the physical location where we happen to reside, you and your Mom will always remain inside me. Our lives together fill a very important part of my heart, and nothing will ever change what we have been blessed to share together during the time Mom was with us. We are now filling our lives with new memories, and they are being done around a series of “firsts” without Mom. Hard to believe I’m still saying that after two and a half years.

There will no doubt be additional transitions in my life, such as starting a new job (hopefully very soon) or deciding to risk exploring new relationships again. The relationship with a woman in my life has been an important one, and I am sure that you know there will never be a substitute for your Mom. Your Mom will always hold a special place in my heart, irreplaceable.

I want you to always remember that the way I can explain that to you is because of the way I’ve felt about both of you as you came into my life. When I married your Mom, I couldn’t imagine loving anyone any more than how I loved her. Of course I still loved my parents and sisters and extended family, but there was a whole new part of my heart that opened up to allow for a special and unique place where only your Mom could fit. That place became very large over the 21 years we were together, 19 of it married.

During our first year of marriage, our son was born and an entirely new place in my heart showed up, a special reserved place that was totally and completely about loving my son. It expanded my heart in a way that I hadn’t imagined I could love so much more, but it was a unique space and a unique love that was and is reserved only for my son. Just like with your Mom, the place for loving my son has continued to grow and deepen as the years have filled our lives with so much. Now that love is allowing for a transition for a young man to forge into the world as a well-equipped, free-thinking man. That love allows for the space to also provide room for the additions in his life of a life partner who will expand his heart in much the same way as Mom shaped mine. I imagine that there will be several relationships through which God will allow my son to grow, love, learn, and hurt before he will find that special love of his life. Eventually I know that God will bless my son with that life partner and that all our hearts will expand to not only accept that woman in my son's life into our family circle, but also the addition of his own children. I am excited in anticipation of all these great transitions, and will always wish that Mom could be with us to experience these life changes.

Then it happened again, along came my daughter. Another expansion took place in my heart and a whole new space opened up for a love which is now exclusively used to love my precious daughter. All of the unique experiences marked by the special bond of a father-daughter relationship have continued to blossom. I have faced the transition of having her affections shifted to another man, and had to bear from a distance the challenges of not being able to mend a broken heart or fix a relationship. This was a difficult change for sure, but I’m grateful that you continue to grow and mature in a way that is thoughtful and respectful. I don’t feel like you’re shutting anyone out for new relationships at the expense of existing love relationships, but that you, like my son, are figuring out what it means to create a whole new place in your heart for someone new. There is a whole new dynamic in your thinking and relationships which required all of us to change to accommodate this new phase of life. You continue to be challenged by some of your friends have not been taught how to deal with, expect or manage this aspect of their lives, so they’ve gotten stuck in what they thought their relationship should be with you instead of giving you the room to expand your heart and include them in the new growth areas of your heart. I am proud of you for sticking with it, for being a role model and for believing they will come to understand this in time. I know it has been painful, but that is part of what continues to mature and shape you as a leader.

Right now it seems hard to imagine going through another courtship like I’ve just been through, but I trust that in whatever years I may continue to be blessed with life that I will again find someone who will expand a whole new part of my heart. I hope that in my courtship you have seen a good role model. I hope you have felt that I treated this aspect of my life the way I should.

I don’t know what the future holds. The future might include the possibility of buying a new home down the road. The condo for now is a good transitional landing place for which we are truly blessed. I may need to go through a transition myself which may include moving to another home, maybe a villa in Tuscany or a penthouse condo above Pike Place Market in Seattle. It may be driven by the need to accept employment somewhere other than San Diego due to the current economic circumstances.

Whatever our ultimate physical location is, we will always carry the memories of our past residences with us wherever transitions and change take us. These are the bricks and mortar that surrounded us, but part of the tools we utilize, certainly not a reflection of who we are. I am so proud of who you both have become. You are my solid foundation in a world of chaos. Houses and money burn, but you two are eternally my kids.

Here’s part of why I’m writing this to you both. Though we have little choice in most of the transitions in our lives, I am so proud of how both of you are dealing with ongoing tough transitions. I thank God that we had the foundation He provided where we have stood together amidst a heavy storm and weathered the loss of Mom in a way that is honoring both to her and to God. We have sorrow for sure, but we have hope and confidence in our eternal destiny, and for that I will always be grateful. Although I’ve been through most of the life transitions you’re about to experience, you both already know what took me decades to learn. Life is about brief joys, those saturated moments and places etched in our hearts where we stand, shaky but upright, and find that overall we have a pretty good balance.

When you feel like that balance is teetering, always know that you can come to me for a hug, a conversation, my perspective, a glass of wine or just to cry together to reset your frame of reference and regain your balance.

Always remember how deeply I love you both,

Dad

Encouragement to Keep Writing!

Perseverance is Key

Encouragement to Keep Writing

by

Kendell Lang, New Media Consultant

For the writer in all of us we are inspired to write our thoughts on paper and express them to others. In some cases we keep a journal or a notebook of our thoughts and inspirations.  I write this blog to try and keep a clear thought pattern as I process a variety of ideas and issues in my mind. I am the future of myself, I am the writer and the future is mine.


I'm not going to worry about the rejection, I've had plenty of that. They say there are 99 “no’s” to every “yes” so I am looking forward to getting the rest of the “no” out of the way so I can get to a “yes”.  I am continuing to plug away at my regular job while I get my writing in as I can. I won’t give up and I will persevere.  I've learned that most authors who do it full time now had regular jobs once in their lifetime and they had the same dreams I do now. They didn’t give up and kept plugging away.

I won’t forget the Stephanie Meyer is a home-maker and Suze Orman used to wait tables. I see famous authors now and in the past who were teachers, consultants, garbage collectors and every other kind of career.

Sometimes I don't feel like writing, but I do it anyway. Sometimes I may be scared to write, but I do it anyway. Sometimes I wonder whether what I have to say is providing value, but I write it anyway. I just keep writing and I trust that I will find that what I am writing is getting better and better.

When I have a thought I try and write it out.  I do my research on whatever topic I'm working on and follow through being true to my idea. I study other works and read other authors to appreciate other styles and enhance my knowledge of the world through other author’s lives.

I am only writing what I know about.  That keeps me out of trouble most of the time. Well so to speak. I study life around me and what I see as stories in my world.  I don’t talk myself out of writing; thinking no one will ever read it. I forge ahead and write and stay positive. It can have a twist but will still be in my world.

So I hold to this virtual notebook and take it with me on my journey of a lifetime as a writer. I don’t give up, I study life, I research and above all things I keep writing. I will find my unique story and the world will find it with me. If I write about it well, people will read it and appreciate it as a unique contribution. I keep on writing and I don’t give up.