Today I awoke to learn that the funding goal set to launch “Witness Underground” out into the world was reached, two days ahead of schedule.  Not quite under the wire but not exactly a chip shot either.

I will be honest here, I really dislike crowdfunding as a concept, I think social media is a social toxin, and I did not enjoy the actual process.  I really stressed Scott out with my own stress about the process and I feel bad about that.  The whole thing was well out of my personal comfort zone.  That said, there was one upside to the whole thing and that was the amazing coalescence of a community of supporters, well-wishers, and fellow travelers.

Amazing people, big hearts, incredible talents, I am humbled by the support, the enthusiasm, and the love being shown on the Discord server, on social media, in appreciative emails, on video calls, it’s stunning.

I’m speechless.

Decades ago my brother and I started something that grew into something else.  Eighteen years ago I lost it.  And him.  I tried to make peace with those losses.  I went to therapy.  I started a new life.  I wrote hundreds of thousands of words.  I meditated.  I recorded music.  I cried and screamed and tried to figure out what I was going to do with the rest of my life and then this movie happened.  These people happened.  Thanks to this movie and the community of people who have responded to it, a future I never allowed myself to dream could be possible.  I keep waking up in shocked disbelief, like this isn’t happening, can’t be happening.  Nobody gets a second chance like this.

Life doesn’t work that way.

And yet, thanks to a whole bunch of incredible, kind, thoughtful, and supportive people, here we are.

Thank you, everybody.  Thank you so incredibly much.  I’m not good at showing my gratitude but I have more of it than I know what to do with.