today has been a crazy day for the Folk Opera . . . while I’ve been working away at HHREC we’ve been racking up the funds and percentage points faster than any day since the very first day we launched.
so far (the day is not yet over) we’ve had EIGHT brand new backers and 3 backers who increased their pledges. this brought us from 66.7% last night to 72.9% right now! AND we’ve reached 100 backers . . . this is astounding.
I have cried three times in this process so far: once on the day Elizabeth’s father sent an email out to his friends/family asking them with heart in hand to give; once on the day a friend told me her boss would give us $500 if the Celtics win it all (the pledge is contingent upon their win, but the generosity is not); and once today when a stream of new backers just absolutely poured in between 3:29p~4:15p. I couldn’t catch my breath.
I’m stunned with gratefulness. family, friends, friends of family, family of friends, there are even a couple of strangers in there. this is what a grass-roots project looks like, and you just WAIT til we actually start in on the project. so many different hands will touch this project before it is completed it’s going to take one whole page just to print all of your names.
stunned. oops, crying again. that’s four.
