HAPPY NEW YEAR 2007 FROM BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN, VERMONT!
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Another year is nearly gone and I hate to see it leave. For all of us 2006 will be a special year in our memories because it was the year that Brokeback Mountain came into our lives.
It was a wild and crazy year for me too. Seeing the movie "preview" for the first time left me stunned. I watched it online at Yahoo that one night in early January and was just stunned 
The fight to keep the movie in the local theaters for weeks after it was supposed to leave was fun and a real rush. I was in a depression because the place I worked for had closed in December of 2005 and medical issues were also becoming apparent. The search for our Brokeback Mountain in Vermont lifted me up so high and kept me going. It gave my life meaning and a reason to fight for my life in that hospital. Although the search was slow, often depressing, full of happiness and sadness, it was thrilling nevertheless. The sight of each new possible Mountain looming in the distance took my breath away. In the end, the realization that I would not find a Mountain before the year was over was heartbreaking. Now that the calender is just hours away from changing to January 2007, Spring is only a heartbeat away. (Thanks once again for the Brokeback Mountain Calendar, Matt! )
In 2007, we will have our Brokeback Mountain. I intend to start on it as soon as Spring is in the air.
I am reposting my Message from December 6, 2006 which I sent here when I returned from my final walk up a Mountain for the year. Hope you enjoy it once again. If I decide to be home tonight, I will post my last message of 2006 minutes before the year ends.
Don't forget our website http://www.brokebackmountainvermont.com
HAPPY NEW YEAR 2007 TO EVERYONE!
+PEACE+
John
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HERE IS MY REPOST:
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Wed Dec 6, 2006 9:12 pm
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"john" <john@brokebackmountainvermont.com>
I am still here...waiting for winter to start and more importantly for
Winter to END.
Someone sent me a "lead" on a Mountain so I decided to take a ride today.
I liked it. It was out in Northeast Vermont. I found a semi-trail and
started walking up the mountain. The leaves are all gone and
everything was brown. The wind was howling around me and the empty
trees swayed back and forth. Other than the wind, everything was
silent. No people, no cars, no noise, not even the sound of the birds
in this blustery weather.
I sat down on an old tree log. I sat there alone for a long time
listening to the wind blowing through the empty trees. The loneliness
of that mountain, at that moment in time, pierced my soul. I looked up
into the sky and for some reason and for many reasons, I cried. The
tears streamed down my face as I cried for Jack and Ennis, I cried for
every person in the world who loves someone but is persecuted for it
because that love doesn't conform to the standards of the rest of the
world. I cried for everyone who loved Brokeback and who look forward
to our Mountain yet to be. I cried because I couldn't make our
Mountain a reality this year. I thought about so many things while I
sat there, I think I cried for nearly every possible reason in the
world. Most importantly, I cried for me.
I was on that Mountain nearly 1 and 1/2 hours. I was cold, in distress
and wanting to go home. I slowly made my way back down the Mountain
all the while thinking, thinking and thinking. (I think that I think
too much
The best part of my trip was that my time on the Mountain today did
give me some inspiration and I found myself with new and bold ideas
that I never thought of before. Maybe those ideas will help me find a
Mountain even faster in the Spring, before everyone forgets about
Brokeback Mountain.
I want you to know that just because this group and our main website
sit silently waiting for Spring and natures new life to come back to
us, it does not mean that I have forgotten Brokeback Mountain. I think
about it EVERY single day without exception.
Thanks for all the private emails too. I appreciate them very much. I
read each one and they all mean so much to me.
I'll post again soon, definitely before Christmas. I hope you all do
the same. It would make me happy to keep hearing from all of you!
John
(Fresh off the Mountain)
December 6, 2006
