This mailing that Kimberly and Foster Gamble just sent out about THRIVE reminds me of when I took my clothes off in an open mike situation to make a political point, and the next person who took the stage, with me naked and draped in a blanket, tried to talk about homelessness. No chance. Everyone needed to be dealing with the scene at hand.

With the backlash that’s reverberating now to THRIVE, given what John Robbins has been spearheading, I was stunned by the Gambles not relating to it in this mailing they just sent out. It is the elephant in the room. With participants in the movie distancing themselves from it, and with all of us having been educated by an extraordinarily bad rap on some of the people in the movie who haven’t distanced themselves from it, the world went on tilt when I read the upbeat report the Gambles wrote on how well THRIVE is doing, with nary a mention of any conflict.

Kimberly and Foster, I hope you will meet the challenges to your movie head-on, and that along this bumpy road, where we clash with each other, we will work through our conflicts so we can unite in our mutual aspirations to fix what needs fixing in this hurting world. We have to clear some hurdles first, and I think we might do that if you carry on in dealing what the film has kicked up.

This is my fireplace mantle. The artwork by John Robbins, made out of seeds, is the crop circle on my DVD disk!