After the Campaign: Gestalt

Dear Internauts,

Well, as of 11:41am this morning, the kickstarter campaign to record a new EP came to a close. Of the 2,950 goal, we were able to raise 2,300. I'd just like to thank those who backed and encouraged me throughout this process.

It was a very new sort of challenge to ask folks for money, but every single step of the way there you were willing to make a sacrifice of your own means and time to give me a shot. That means so much more than any numbers can express.

My word for today is gestalt, a noun meaning "an organized whole that is perceived as more than the sum of its parts".

From the wiki:
"This principle maintains that when the human mind (perceptual system) forms a percept or gestalt, the whole has a reality of its own, independent of the parts. The original famous phrase of Gestalt psychologist Kurt Koffka, "The whole is other than the sum of the parts" is often incorrectly translated^[1] as "The whole is greater than the sum of its parts," and thus used when explaining gestalt theory, and further incorrectly applied to systems theory.^[2]Koffka did not like the translation. He firmly corrected students who replaced "other" with "greater". "This is not a principle of addition" he said.^[3] The whole has an independent existence."

Here's to you dearest Internauts, to you friends and family, to you fans and believers and truly lifetime members of Odist Abettor Music. It's never been just me, even when the madness is mostly my own. Great art always rises highest on the support of a community.

What lies ahead is uncertain, but isn't that always the case? 
My hopes and dreams ever increasing in pace
My life and my mind may wander and wane
Yet still there is courage and healing in pain
For nothing worth remaining remains quite the same 
And there is more room in the world than its space
And more sides to a thought than its face

Thanks,
Odist