GM! I found a nice gently used kids guitar at the local thrift. This will be my kid’s second one. First one he beat on pretty good, neck is broken, missing a couple strings now. He now knows if he were ever to get a new guitar he’d have to treat it much better than his last one. He’s all in, so he says. Recently he’s been listening to the BeeGees and today he’s into “You Should Be Dancin’”. Thankful for this kid, who doesn’t whine about not enough time on a device. Just pivots to something else like playing “music”. Cultivating low time preference takes time. Seeds sown develop slowly, but it’s the most valuable time I’ve spent. Absolutely rich beyond measure. Also teaching humility which doesn’t come naturally to our sinful flesh. Anyway, that and homemade sourdough toast, @Oshi (推し) butter and good conversation with my boys makes this a day to remember. ☕️ Doesn’t always look like this but today this is productivity this morning. Building character, one hour, one day at a time.

GN sleep tight, don’t let the sharks bite

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Circular economy. Some may boast about this or that but I think this is another opportunity to exercise humility. Find basic food items locally and then help others get connected. Lead by example for your kids to emulate. They’re watching you 😊 This may seem a daunting prospect but really it can start simply and small. I’m still learning but I think this is the way. I’ve been working to onboard some local friends to bitcoin, to accept Lightning payments for food products I currently pay for in fiat. My goal has been to keep money in my local community (who need income!) as they produce food my family will consume. I look in my fridge and say: “what else can I live without or replace with something sourced locally?” Be encouraged if you’re a producer. Be encouraged if you’re trying to do the above like me. Be encouraged, but most of all keep going, keep pushing forward. In my previous work as a contractor I once paid a guy for some coaching. One of the best lessons for me was his comment: “80% of the people who want to do business with you don’t know about you yet.” And here we have nostr, and we can just do stuff.

Saturday I went to the secular religion gathering in Ann Arbor to watch grown men throw a leather thing around and get all excited about numbers and forcing each other to the ground. Once in a lifetime trip for my son and I, because we could still barely afford to go. Sat near the OSU marching band. 🎶 Stack sats or stack memories? It’s always the dilemma. Was a learning experience for he and I we will not forget, mostly excellent with some great teaching moments 👀😅 Always #homeschooling

Good morning friends

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“The vexation of a fool is known at once, but the prudent ignores an insult.” Proverbs 12:16 ESV Notes: Self control is characteristic of the wise. The fool reacts too strongly and too soon, destroying relationships. The wise person leaves the way open for reconciliation. (The Reformation Study Bible)

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Had a content creator friend tell me his audience is on TikTok, pretty sure that’s not my jam.

@BTCforPlebs doing the nostr wallet connect thing on the Lightning node with @Boadee today! From one pleb to another, building the network and making Orange 🌽 stronger. Because we just do stuff.

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A fun story of thankfulness. In listening to various things on YT and coming across @ODELL and @MartyBent talking about @CrowdHealth. Now my wife is in the rabbit hole. We have 6 kids (5 at home). Thankful for her helping us figure this out. We used to be members of Samaritan Ministries and okay experience. Then we needed a better alternative. Another dive into the healthcare “marketplace”. Ha, no. What scam health insurance is/has been/ will be. We’re heading for Crowd Health, so thank you.

GM friends. We have family in town for early Thanksgiving and had a blast last night. @btcforplebs took family pictures for us and it was actually fun. I can highly recommend him. Anyway, today is off with the crew to Amish country to get our city slicker fam out in the sticks for a short bit of stimulating the Amish circular economy (with fiat). I can’t help but think Amish families would be WELL served by Bitcoin. Secretly I bet they’re DYOR, just a hunch. Anyway have a lovely and wonderfully productive and joyful day where you are.

Gnite nostr friends. (My daughter dug this out from 2004). 😂

True story. Yesterday I saw @Oshi (推し) post something on nostr about being a customer and, confident I knew what he/sells #hodlbutter (of course), I jumped on board. And… I had no idea what I was about to buy, but knew it must be good. Thankful that I asked, because I could not have consumed the product that I was about to purchase 😂. A new lesson in: verify. 😂😛 TBH back in the day I would very much enjoyed the extra-terrestrial chocolates. I even have some stories. But that was another time and place (way back there). At any rate, I look forward to #hodlbutter and trying it with my local raw honey. Grace and Peace be to you.

GM friends. Long post, and this is a post for men. Fathers and husbands mostly. But women, be encouraged, this is for your man. Disclosure, I don’t expect all yall to see things my way but that makes it more interesting. I’ve seen a lot of people posting their declaration/proclamation that family is so important and declaring that on social media. It’s not just out there, it is very noticeable. This is encouraging to see, however a few things come to mind. First, as a husband you are greatly blessed. To find a wife that you can lay down your life for is no small thing. If you forget that let me remind you of that fact. I say this because I need reminders as well. I’m kind of pleasantly surprised that people are figuring this out. Pleasantly because family is indeed a blessing. Surprised because it’s been there all along. But it’s good that many are waking up to how important the family is. By this I mean family members in your immediate family, your spouse and your children. And here is the reminder part. Family can be hard. It’s real hard. But that fact doesn’t change anything about the permanence of family the need for stability and the father’s need to lead his family well. He can learn this even if he doesn’t know how. One thing he should not do is abandon his family. There are some who will say this is okay for some reason. Maybe in some sense, maybe. But for 99.999% of us men there is no excuse for leaving our wife and children. This has become way too common. I have stories I wish not to tell. As long as it depends on us we should be reminded that nothing is of higher importance than our wives and children, and we should remember that when it gets hard, because it will. I’m posting this because I have two sisters in the northwest who do not have any faith to sustain them. BOTH of their husbands recently left them and their children. Neither one of them have faith, neither one have Bitcoin (though I continue to work on their understanding) and both have teenage children. I know many reading this understand, but men we can not ever think it’s okay to abandon our wife and children. This is a deception sold us in a fiat world of paper lies, temptation and greed. Thanks for listening and I hope you have a beautiful and wonderful day today! (This is my daughter about 10 years ago isn’t she precious!)