Books
What are you missing in your life?
Many feel meaning is missing in their lives, yet there is still a spiritual tug. If disenchanted with traditional religion and its dogma, where does one turn? Ironically, Jean Moreau, a modern-day monk at the fictional French Abbey of Kervennec, the protagonist in The Abbey Chronicles trilogy, is waging his own search. He’s dissatisfied with his religion’s rigidity and response to key questions. He knows there is more. In these sometimes tense, yet very human memoirs, you will follow as he discovers different roads towards his ultimate goal: a direct connection with the Divine!
Writing
Clark is a writer in several genres – novel, booklet, and poetry.
Why the novels?
So many people are feeling that meaning is missing for them in life. They are disenchanted with their traditional religion, yet feel a spiritual tug. For the protagonist in The Abbey Chronicles Trilogy, Jean Moreau, a modern-day monk at the fictional Abbey of Kervennec in France, it is particularly true. In these sometimes tense stories, his memoirs, you will find him often dissatisfied with his traditional religion’s point of view on many levels. In addition to his questioning of his traditional religion’s dogma, he is confounded by the personal challenges of his deep love for a woman, his passions and emotions, and his struggles with a dictatorial abbot fighting his own demons. Through trial and error, we follow Jean on this very human journey to satisfy the longing in his soul for Truth and personal gnosis. Jean’s search for the answer to life’s meaning ultimately becomes one thing, a direct Divine Connection.
Clark has also written a series of short booklets on Virtues, those unheralded but tremendously important key components to a happy life. It is all in his Jean Moreau’s Little Books of Wisdom series.
Clark has written poetry all his life. He will soon be offering his poetry anthology entitled My First Seventy Years, Collected Poems. There is no art form more personal or more beautiful, in his opinion.
All books are available on Amazon in eBook, paperback, and increasingly in audiobook format, while eBooks are also available on Kobo, Google Books, and Apple Books, everywhere in the world.
The Abbey Chronicles Trilogy
Via stories and characters you will remember, learn about making a direct connection to the Divine and gain a new perspective on what it means to be a spiritual being.
This engaging, memoir-esque spiritual exploration ultimately raises age-old questions in a fresh format… A thoughtful, engrossing rumination on the relationship between organized religion and personal faith.
– Kirkus Reviews
Little Books of Wisdom
Jean Moreau, author of The Abbey Chronicles series, presents a new series on the value of Virtues. With useful commentary and easy exercises, these books are designed as short reads, organized in a helpful way so that you can continue to refer to them from time to time for helpful insights and reminders. In each booklet of the Little Books of Wisdom series, you will find simple ways to incorporate a particular virtue into your own life, allowing that virtue to play a bigger role in your life, thus making it a much more joyful voyage!
What satisfies your hunger in life are not things or dogma.
What satisfies is more subtle, waiting to be discovered.
Voice
The human voice renders a power like no other. Whether in singing or in chant or in exhortation or emotion, voice is a power center for each of us to express what we feel, what we think and what we want. I love the voice in all of its beauty and share my own in whatever fashion I can.
Radio
The Kim Pagano Show
Kim brings you “Experts and Reality” in an effort to educate moms, dads, children, and the entire community in useful daily knowledge. She talks about how to cope and meet everyday demands with a positive, yet realistic point of view in today’s world. You never know what Kim is going to talk about. She looks into the lives of families, in every walk of life, and educates them on how to get the support they need. She helps families get the answers they not only need, but the answers they deserve, from the experts in any practice and industry! Kim Pagano reminds us that it is all about our own personal journey and making it the best.
Christina Nitschmann on iHeart Radio
Christina Nitschmann is a highly sought after speaker, consultant and radio show host of Savvy Business Radio. As the host, Christina has the unique ability to connect with each and every guest at a emotional level that sets Savvy Business Radio apart from other broadcasts. Savvy Business Radio is home to over 3.5 million listeners per month via our AM/FM stations and podcasting platforms globally. Savvy’s shows also run in syndication through 9 AM/FM247 and iHeart Radio. But that’s the formal version of the woman, peel back the layers and there is so much more.
L ’invite de Clark
Clark produces and hosts his English weekly radio program, “L’invité de Clark” each Wednesday and Saturday from Radio Harmonie Cornouaille located in Concarneau, France. Catch the program each week at https://www.radio-harmonie.com at 4:10 AM Eastern time, or, for those who like to sleep, at 12:15 noon Eastern time on Saturdays!
A complete archive of dozens of previous shows is also available at https://www.radio-harmonie.com/clark/
Fun
Two Twits & Twain
I can’t be serious all the time, so my old buddy Carl (Doc) and I have produced a fun podcast, whenever we get around to it, starring us and Mark Twain – yes, Samuel Clemens himself! Doc is a master at putting on a one-man Mark Twain show. Most are not long, so take a few minutes, and…Tap into the fun as Doc and Clark take you on a humorous journey through the everyday! These lovable self-dubbed Twits enjoy nothing more than a fun conversation and some sage commentary from their distinguished co-host,
the late Mark Twain!
Music
Music performance has also been an important part of his life. Starting with his involvement with the Notre Dame Glee Club and then the Omaha Symphonic Chorus, under the direction of future Mormon Tabernacle Choir Director, Craig Jessup, Clark then founded an a cappella quartet, The Fabulous Fourmeldyhides (www.fabfour2.com).
Known as “America’s Doowop Sensation,” the group performed with many of the bands of the “oldies’ era including Gary Lewis & the Playboys, The Turtles, the Grass Roots, Frankie Avalon, The Diamonds, and the Little River Band, among others. The group performed in the late 1990’s and early 2000’s, and were also featured on national television on the shopping network QVC, where they sold 2500 CDs in just six minutes.
He was also a founding member of France’s Doowop Deluxe a cappella quartet (www.doowopdeluxe.com), which enjoyed much success in the Brittany region of the country.
DooWop Deluxe
DooWop Deluxe epitomizes two things we love – doo-wop and a cappella. We love the sound, the era, and the groups who thrived in the decades of the 50’s and 60’s. From one-hit wonders like Richard Berry to groups that became household names like The Drifters, everyone can find a piece of music, a memorable tune or performance that brings pleasure for a lifetime.
That’s what we are about – fun and music. Enjoy our enthusiasm and love for the music!
The Fabulous Fourmeldyhides
The Fabulous Fourmeldyhides, America’s A Cappella Doo-Wop Sensation, had a relatively short but vibrant impact on millions of people as they revived many of the “One Hit Wonders” from the Fifties and Sixties in their own unique style. The memories continue with their two legendary albums – “50’s Favorites” – a sell-out nationally on the QVC network, and “60’s Favorites” – their signature interpretation of the great songs of the Drifters, Beach Boys, Tokens, and others. Also available is their international single release, “Heather and Red Roses”
Meet Clark
Clark’s writing of novels began many years ago after a career in business. His books, novels, booklets, and poetry now enjoy a worldwide circulation. Born and raised in the beautiful city of Des Moines, Iowa, he had no idea that he would eventually spend a lot of time in the country that gave Des Moines its name, France…
His study of things spiritual has taken him around the world – from the USA to London, from France to Australia, and Ireland to India. He is a member of the College of Psychic Studies in London, and currently supports the Self-Realization Fellowship of Paramahansa Yogananda in Los Angeles. He has spent time at Plum Village, home of the late famed author and Buddhist monk, Thich Nhat Hanh, and was present at the Dalai Lama’s visit at Plouray, Brittany, experiencing at arm’s length his extraordinary presence. He has been a long-time student of Transcendental Meditation, and has met with Indian pundits both in situ and in the USA on practical matters and astrology.
He continues to be a student of alternative therapies such as Healing Touch, massage, hypnotherapy and EFT, and has studied with yoga masters in Australia, Ireland and Uruguay. He is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame.
These encounters and experiences have taught him that spirituality is about one thing only — direct connection to the Divine — as a part of or independent of an organized religion..
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