Kickstarter Campaign is Kick-Started!

As of noon today we have begun our Kickstarter Production to Post campaign to raise funds which will allow us to capture the footage and media needed to begin our editing process. As we begin to edit the completed segments will be used as real samples of the documentary which will allow us to seek more substantial funding from foundations and corporate sponsors. In other words, your support of this campaign will become the spark from which larger contributions will ignite. So join in. The music is starting and the crowd is finding the groove. Raise those lighters in the air and feel the love!  This is the beginning of a new era in elderhood.

Old On Purpose Production to Post   (Click to visit campaign site)

And so it begins...

9:30am - Coffee and planning with gifted artist and development guru Mary Veronica Sweeney. Having both recently returned from our individual trips to NYC (mine to visit our Son and hers to do incredible work creating support for important/world-changing organizations) we met to catch up and lay out our plans to gain support, connect with a larger base and spread the word about Old On Purpose, a new documentary currently in production that focuses on the changing face of aging in America.
There is something fundamentally flawed about our current image of growing old. Our current culture tells us that there is nothing to be gained in that phase of life that follows adulthood. What I am discovering is a powerful truth about why we age and what tremendous potential for discovery, development, and the cultivation of wisdom exists beyond the shores of our adult years. More importantly, I am learning about how our current culture and the problems of our world are desperately in need of a society of elders and their augmented experience and wisdom. The documentary is the beginning of what I hope will become an initiative to tell the story of the value and meaning that exists in our aging and how we, as an aging population, can become a valuable gift to our communities and create a new vision of what it means to grow old on purpose. Click on the link below to visit the project website and learn more.

The Aging Film Project

more to come...
Peace,
David