Boxxers Sunflower Seeds launched nine days ago, and we stand at six backers (four family members and two who found us on Kickstarter). We are at $1,515 in pledges, about 2% of our $85,000 goal. Painfully familiar. We are on Kickstarter because we see it as the door to a new world for creative, inventive, souls with the drive and passion to pursue big ideas; a world different than the one where calling someone a dreamer is to say "you need to work- get a job." When one of our sons first told us about Kickstarter, our hearts were touched by the idea that there was a movement like this where people saw one another's dreams and said, "I can help you with that." It was so uplifting to think that young thinkers, creators, doers; and their
creations wouldn't die on the vine just because they didn't have the money to make them reality. I suppose I couldn't help hoping that somehow this new world of benefactors might let one in from the old school, and allow me a shot at my big idea, an end to all these years of trying to do what I never had the money to do. Some of you may identify with a guy whose mind never rests - always working on some original idea, and never giving up. For dreamers of my generation, friends and family never understand why we have to be this way. They are the first to discourage, and the last to support. Here's to the new world - and hope that I can get a glimpse. Don Clark Plainview, Texas 61, and still WON'T STOP BELIEVING.
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