The Darkest Hour Heralds in The Dawn

The butterfly flaps its wings and interacts with distant things.

My Dad, Weston Neil Andersen with his Heron Sculpture. I am doing a fundraiser to raise funds to help in paying for the past and future due on safely storing the original Andersen Design production molds.

I have created a spot fundraiser to raise funds to safeguard the original Andersen molds. I used Spotfund as a test run for a larger goal, because it is simple to set up.

I chose Spotfund over Go Fund Me because the money is transferred the day after it is donated. There is no rewards system. SpotFund simply asks for a gift from the universe. Rewards I have to offer are the same as I offer for sale on Andersen Design store front, which also transfers money into my account instantly.

My first fundraiser thus far has resulted in the response I anticipated- none

But I decided to do it as a process, completely expecting to receive no support, is a big reason why I haven’t done a fundraiser until now, so I decided to get over it and celebrate this milestone of actually creating a fundraiser. And so, on that score, I succeeded.

As it turned out I succeeded on a much more profound level as events have unfolded since I wrote that last sentence, but not in terms of resolving immediate financial needs, Thats the way the cookie rumbles.

Once you determine a goal, failures identify where to find success. It is important to recognize where one’s real and mutual support dwells within the world.

This poem from Augmenter's Journey inspires the courage to take the leap even if you don’t expect to succeed:

"Poetry is a game of loser-take-all"

Fearless Dreamers in the Poetry Playground

I am not the victor in this race, but I run still,
Footfall on pavement echoing through silent streets.
You might think me a loser. But let's redefine defeat.

In this game of all or nothing, tangible triumph eludes my grasp
Yet within every moment that passes without victory…

Resides another chance to learn resilience - sweet and gritty.

Oh! The world will whisper 'failure,' when it sees no trophy tall
But listen close now -- such whispers don't tell truth at all;
This isn’t about winning; It’s an unveiling – A radical recall

Augmented’s Journey is published by Eva Rtology, who also publishes AI-power for digital ART, which recommends my newsletter and has been my largest source of subscriber growth. Given the subject matter, it is likely largely a young audience. The younger audience is a big part of my support demographic.

Eva’s newsletters play a similar function as FUD Inc, that of creating a support community but without the How-To Videos, instead Eva is very good at providing inspirational support, positive psychological attitude and relevant information about the rapidly evolving world of AI, and her reach is supportive of what I do which extends into the nuts and bolts of politics right down to the level of municipal ordinances that is not yet frequently discussed but the reality is that the emerging worker movement away from the corporate hierarchy cannot succeed if ordinances zone independent workers out of appropriate dwelling spaces.

I have tried to get FUD Inc to respond to the need for the political level of support that intersects with municipal ordinances and other legal structures but I have not succeeded on that front.

Once you determine a goal, failures define where to find success. It is important to identify where one’s real and mutual support dwells within the world. I think Eva is a good communicator providing valuable information. Her delivery is very humanistic. Her venue is the newsletter while FUD Inc is a platform.

The contemporary newsletter is the descendent of the Society of Correspondence started in England during the eighteenth century.

My idea for a network of independently owned slip-cast production studios is the brick-and-mortar equivalency of the online platform. It needs a legal framework to structure it. I want that framework to be a mutually interactive, chaos theory versus hierarchy. It’s socially revolutionary.

However, I have been trying to find others interested in my concept, fruitlessly, for so long that recently I thought that maybe I should just sell the molds and not care about the rest.

But who would I sell them to?

Just as I am entertaining such dark thoughts, I received a phone call from someone to whom I had sent spot fundraiser email, someone who is very interested in the molds and in putting the Andersen line back into production. I have known of this person for many years and of his appreciation for Andersen Design. He is known in the ceramic field and has been involved with preserving the work of ceramic artists. He wants to move all the original molds to another state and start putting the Andersen line back into production. He is experienced in doing such moves and is very passionate about his work. He sees Andersen Design as a strong asset for his own endeavor. I see this as the most qualified opportunity I have ever been presented to ensure that the assets my family created will survive to benefit future generations. He is not an organization, he is a free enterprise entrepreneur, of the Andersen Design tradition.

The opportunity seems perfect but daunting. My first thought is I need a lawyer to work out the details of handing over the molds into the procession of someone else in a distant state, the molds do not appear to have a future here in Maine.

So it seems my first attempt at fundraising did reap a return, a much more significant one than I targeted. (I decided not to do this. The several hundred original molds are the core value of our assets. They are never used except to make master molds, and master molds are never used except to make production molds but I was pleased that someone recognized their value. Unfortunately the conversation seems to have stopped there)

Still need to get by on a day-to-day basis while I am trying to figure everything out and put the pieces of the puzzle together.

Chaos theory is an interdisciplinary area of scientific study and branch of mathematics focused on underlying patterns and deterministic laws of dynamical systems that are highly sensitive to initial conditions, and were once thought to have completely random states of disorder and irregularities.^[1] Chaos theory states that within the apparent randomness of chaotic complex systems, there are underlying patterns, interconnection, constant feedback loops, repetition, self-similarity, fractals, and self-organization.^[2] The butterfly effect, an underlying principle of chaos, describes how a small change in one state of a deterministic nonlinear system can result in large differences in a later state (meaning that there is sensitive dependence on initial conditions).^[3] A metaphor for this behavior is that a butterfly flapping its wings in Texas can cause a tornado in Brazil.^{[4][5][6] Wikipedia}

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