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My Story
I’m a retired ad guy, brand strategist, palm reader, and a current Parkinson's sufferer.
The brand guy decides what story to tell, the ad guy finds a clever way to tell it, and the palm reader, well, no one in the ad business really knows what they’re doing, so we spend a lot of time pretending we know more than the client. The Parkinson's sufferer now spends his time looking for simple moments of joy and reflecting on life – its meaning as well as its oddities and absurdities.
I've published one novel, a work of historic fiction about sheep shearing, and three non-fiction books, each filled with quirky observations about skunks, Kirby vacuum cleaner salesmen, boy scout merit badges, penguin poop in the Antarctic, and a wild man from Borneo with a bone in his nose. From the mind of a simple man, each book is a collection of simple tales, and the big lessons they taught me.​
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Excerpts
The Boy Scouts didn't want to "be prepared." They didn't care about the dangers. They believed, unwisely, that nothing bad would happen to them, drawn, like all boys, to the glimmering allure of a sharp knife.
MARK HURST
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