Onward and upward

The excitement mounts. Twenty more people have chipped in with another 1560 Euros.

What makes this project so extraordinary – so different from most crowd-funding – is that I know personally almost half the 43 people on that Paypal list of contributors. It reminds me of just how many people I have built some kind of relationship with during the years that I have been travelling around. It also makes me all the more determined to bring this thing off as I intended.

Already I feel I have one foot in Aspiran, and I must admit that at times it is hard to imagine that I will no longer be living in this house which I built with my own hands,  looking down on the vegetable garden that I planned and created, and have tended over so many years.

It will be a wrench, no doubt, and I’m sure I’ll be writing much more about it. Yet I am quite certain that this is the right thing for me to do. So thank you all, for helping me to make the move in a way that will allow me to be useful to other writers.

I’m hoping that there may still be some heavy hitters waiting in the wings, but I am sure now that, one way or another, we will get the brass up on the door.

So today’s total stands at:

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