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Becoming B

I am a husband, father, homeschooler, native plant nursery owner, rural route postal carrier, bitcoiner, and many other things.

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2026-07-19 13:55:11 UTC

Good Sunday morning! I have the day off today. Plus the next two!
I took this picture of milkweed at work. It's next to the loading ramp against the brick wall. Along with others it grew up through cracks in concrete and rock.
It's been doing that since they smothered that particular piece of earth with decorative rock and landscaping fabric 5 or so years ago.
I remember when they did it. I fantasized about filling it with natives. Helping tend it. And making it one of the most pollinator friendly post offices in the United States. I was thinking Big.
Anyway, without any attention to it the milkweeds came back immediately. They're some of the best looking milkweeds I have ever seen. I wish I could get them to grow in our front meadow that well!
Yesterday, though, I happened to notice the milkweed in the picture. It doesn't look like that anymore. A lot of the leaves have been chewed off and the flowers are gone.
At first I thought somebody sprayed it with poison. Then it occurred to me we just had a bunch of caterpillars hatch at the nursery. And they went to work chewing on the milkweed we have for sale on the table. Guessing they did the same to the milkweed in the picture.
Annie and Sophia (13 yrs. old) showed me the little caterpillars on the plant tables after work a few days back. They were so happy for them. A happiness on par with if our cat had a litter of kittens.
Then last evening the wasps ate a few caterpillars The two of them went to work immediately hiding plants that still had live caterpillars left on them. We'll see how they did today.
There's more to this nursery than just selling plants. We've got a world to save! :-)
Well, I should go now. I have pots to scrub and sterilize later this morning. Supposed to be smoky again today.
I hope you have a great Sunday!
#gm #coffeechain
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2026-07-17 11:40:12 UTC

Good morning. Pulling in the driveway after work I spotted this one fluttering around. I slowed down to see where it would land. When it landed I stopped, got out, and the rest is history.
Yesterday, while looking at the milkweeds for sale, Annie started counting little monarch caterpillars. The more she counted the more excited she got. They were eggs a few days ago. As I walked away she was off to get Sophie (13 yrs. old) to show her the news. She hopes the caterpillars leave enough plant to sell.
I like simple joy.
Off to the mail trail. I hope you have a great day!
#gm #coffeechain
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2026-07-16 11:29:33 UTC

Good morning. This is one of our favorite pictures of the nursery last year. It was just after a refreshing rain.
The smoke from the Minnesota wildfires is still hanging in the air. It cooled down last night. The house cooled down 7 degrees. Better sleep than the night before.
I'm off to the mail trail.
I hope you have a great day!
#gm #coffeechain
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2026-07-15 11:42:12 UTC

Good morning. I sit down and read Rumi first this morning. I come across some of my favorite lines: A pleasant surprise.
"I didn't come here of my own accord,
and I can't leave that way.
Whoever brought me here will have to take me home."
Nice, eh?
That's a picture of a lead plant and black eyed susan from the front meadow.
I put a few plants in just before dark last evening. The ground is getting dry. Nothing I haven't experienced before. I just keep them watered until the next rain. They usually make it.
I have been collecting seeds off from lance leaf coreopsis and spreading them in our ditch along County E. I wan't more color out there in years to come.
Gotta go already. Off to the mail trail. Hope you have a great day!
#gm #coffeechain
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2026-07-14 11:45:43 UTC

Good morning. Back to the mall trail. Supposed to be hot again today. 95. It was that hot yesterday.
Around mid-afternoon, the hottest part of the day, I put in 3 natives. One of them was a black eyed susan (below) in a 2" pot. Watered it well and walked away.
Something about the resilience of the right plants in the right places that I admire.
I hope you have a great day!
#gm #coffeechain
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2026-07-12 15:20:59 UTC

Plant intelligence:
They have 20 senses; we have 5.
For me this was a good reminder of the Intelligence behind the creation.
https://youtube.com/shorts/5fBCMP4Wqm8
#plants #countryliving

2026-07-12 15:01:13 UTC

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GM. It's hot in northwest Wisconsin. Supposed to hit 95 today. Send a wrong weather report our way please. :-)
Happy Sunday to you and yours.

2026-07-12 13:56:52 UTC

Good morning. That's an old steel clothes line pole. It was here when we bought the place back in '03. I moved it from its original spot and use it as a pullup bar now.
I took this picture at dusk last night. It was darker than the picture shows.
Before I started my pullups Sophia (13 yrs. old) said to me, "Hey Dad, do you want to see a hummingbird nest."
"Sure," I said.
She and Hayden (16 yrs. old) were doing something in the shed a few feet away.
She said it's hard to see. You can mistake it for a pine cone which are currently maturing on the branches of the red pine tree directly above the bar.
She took a few different angles and said, "There it is. If you step over here you can see it."
As we got positioned we heard the vibration of hummingbird wings. A few seconds later there she was. She floated into her nest that was barely as big as a pine cone.
I couldn't believe it. There, maybe 8 feet above me, invisible until now, was the hummingbird that has been sitting in her nest watching me do pullups and hangs since she built it. An egg of hers can't be bigger than a marble. I don't know how she'd fit in there otherwise.
That made my evening. I had just returned from planting lance leafed coreopsis along the ditch of County E and watering plugs to help them through the extreme heat we're in.
Having my daughter make visible the invisible, in this case the hummingbird, was just what I need after 6 days of driveness delivering mail and packages in the July heat.
I hope you have a great Sunday!
#gm #coffeechain
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2026-07-10 15:37:27 UTC

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You too!

2026-07-10 11:40:56 UTC

Good morning. Day 5 of the mail trail. I hope you have a great day!
From the front meadow: Rattlesnake master
#gm #coffeechain
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2026-07-09 01:15:56 UTC

After closing time the Bean Brook Nursery mowing crew goes to work. Meet Willy and April.
#countryliving #nativeplants
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2026-07-07 11:44:49 UTC

Good morning. A lot of orange and yellow in the meadow right now. It just keeps getting better. Every year is a surprise.
I am off to the mail trail in a few minutes. Long day yesterday. Day after a holiday mail and packages are always heavy. Two days in one.
Looking forward to a shorter day today. Barring any catastrophe. I almost got creamed by a semi pulling a box trailer yesterday. Looked it in my rearview mirror. It wasn't stopping. Thankfully he eased it over to the shoulder and got around me. Smell of burning trailer brakes wafted in the window as it went by. A good reminder distraction kills.
Off to the mail trail. Hope you have a great day!
#gm #coffeechain
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2026-07-05 13:23:06 UTC

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You're welcome! Going good so far.

2026-07-04 20:52:59 UTC

"We have it in our power to begin the world over again."
~ Thomas Paine, Common Sense (1776)

2026-07-04 13:55:42 UTC

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Thank you for mentioning me! I appreciate it. 🙏

2026-07-04 13:50:40 UTC

Good morning. Happy 4th of July! It's a big one. This nation is 250 years old. I'm 51 years old. And it occurs to me writing this I have always been happy to be an American.
I got to play and coach baseball. My family all the way back to my great grandparents have been supportive. I have had the freedom to say what I want to say privately and publicly. We have homeschooled our kids for close to 20 years. I received a free public education. I got to read radical books without persecution. I get to deliver mail and packages in Springbrook, the community where I live. We have a native plant nursery in our front yard. I sit Zen meditation every morning. And I buy Bitcoin.
Socially friends, family, and neighbors might raise their eye brows, but the powers that be have left my family and I alone.
My family is starting to wake up. I'm at the kitchen table. A paid day off from the mail trail. Another thing I am grateful for.
Once and awhile someone will have something good to say about these morning updates. I appreciate it. I have made it a practice. I have thought about being more private. I lived for years that way. It was a pleasure. Less stressful. Less self concern and all that. Yet this pushes my comfort zone. Challenges me to be more open and vulnerable and connect on a human level.
Ok, I gotta go. I hope you have a great 4th of July weekend!
Oh, the picture. Annie texted that to me while I was on the mail trail the other day. It's an early sunflower. She and our oldest son were out in the meadow identifying plants.
#gm #coffeechain
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2026-07-02 14:04:19 UTC

November 22 of 2022 was the last day you could ever buy bitcoin below $16,000. On that day, the vast chorus on social media was predicting lower prices right around the corner. They were all wrong.
One of these days, maybe it was yesterday, maybe it’s in the months ahead after a recovery from yet another dip, we will experience the last day that anyone ever buys bitcoin below $60,000. On that day, the vast chorus on social media will be predicting lower prices right around the corner. AGAIN, they will all be wrong.
The vast chorus on social media is always the most bearish at the BOTTOM of a bear market, which is when they should be most bullish.
~ Joel Bomgar

2026-07-02 11:40:03 UTC

Good morning.
Off to the mail trail.
I hope you have a great day!
#gm #coffeechain
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2026-06-30 11:40:31 UTC

Good morning. I took this photo years ago. When I started to become drawn to natives. Or maybe when they started calling me. One never knows.
It's butterfly weed on the roadside of a mail route I subbed on. That was the nice part about being a sub. I got to see a lot of country and get to know a lot of people. I did it for over 15 years. I can open the local paper most weeks and recognize a name and face in the obituary section.
It's hot in this house. 80 degrees. Floors are sticky. Humid. My family is sound asleep with fans running. I'm glad they get to sleep and not have to run off to the rat race.
Tomorrow is our oldest son's birthday. He'll be 27. Annie I got together on his 3rd birthday, and never looked back. Eventually, with the encouragement of Annie's grandma and dad I adopted him. That meant a lot to me. They believed in me. Her grandma payed the attorney bill. Her ashes are up on our shelf. Long story.
Ok, I gotta go. That was fun to write. I hope you have a great day!
#gm #coffeechain
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2026-06-28 14:32:13 UTC

Good morning. It's 9 AM. Bean Brook Nursery is open 10 to 5 today. No mail trail for me today and tomorrow. The break will be nice.
Noticing more and more black eyed susans coming up in the front meadow. There already is a lot of bright yellow lance leaf coreopsis flowers. Annie has been picking false Japanese beetles off them. They devour the flower. In years past they've devoured all of our lance leaf flowers.
Hayden (16 yrs. old) and I are going to swing over, pick up my mom and grandma, and head down to Hungry Hollow. It's near Barron. A weekend event full of working vintage farm machinery and such. We've gone the past two years. Hayden likes to stop by and talk to the blacksmiths. There's just a lot of soul in the whole event.
Well, that's it for now. I hope you have a great day!
#gm #coffeechain
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2026-06-28 00:23:48 UTC

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Thank you for sharing that.

2026-06-27 11:42:33 UTC

Good morning. Off to the mail trail in a few minutes. My last day of the week. It's been a heavy one delivering Amazon packages.
I am taking the post card below with me. Sophia (13 yrs. old) painted it. I am mailing to Arizona. It'll leave on the mail truck this morning. I still like sending postcards. I like delivering them, too. There's thought and care put into them.
A little bit of soul goes a long way in this world mediated by machines.
#gm #coffeechain
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2026-06-24 11:42:41 UTC

Good morning. Off to the mail trail in 2 minutes. I took this photo last evening. Butterfly weed starting to bloom in the front meadow.
Hope you have a great day!
#gm #coffeechain
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2026-06-23 11:33:13 UTC

Good morning. Back to the mail trail today. That's what sunset looked like for us last night. A good close to a week off.
I hope you have a great day!
#gm #coffeechain
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2026-06-22 14:00:33 UTC

"Today, like every other day, we wake up empty
and frightened." ~ Rumi
Good morning. I googled the above quote this morning. A few key words got me there. The feelings were there of course. And I knew Rumi had something to say about them close to 900 years ago.
Some things never change.
He goes on to say:
"Don’t open the door to the study and begin reading. Take down a musical instrument. Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground."
I didn't take down a musical instrument. Because I can't play one. LOL.
What I did do is opened our living room curtains. And what I saw was the early morning sun shining on tables full of neatly labeled native plants.
The fear and emptiness lightened a little.
This is the last day of my 9 days off. Tomorrow it's back to the mail trail.
We didn't open up Bean Brook Nursery this week. The first time we did this in the 4 years we've been open.
It was 9 days of family time. Fishing, horseback riding, visiting with each other and neighbors, working on projects, napping, sharing food together, etc.
A few ways "to kneel and kiss the ground."
I know I'm not supposed to be talking like this. It's rare to find those who share the same immutable characterstics and upbringing quoting a Muslim mystic from 900 years ago.
Oh well, the road to sanity is to find an outlet for your eccentricity as long as you're not hurting anyone. Wisdom has a way of cutting through the bull#&#+.
So all in all, the more I think about it, it's been a fruitful 9 days.
That's a picture of the Father's Day card Sophia (13 yrs old) painted me with 5 family signatures.
I hope you have a great day!
#gm #coffeechain
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2026-06-20 16:52:41 UTC

Good morning. It's midmorning now. An unusual time for me to post. I have been hanging out with my family.
Usually I have a few minutes to squeeze a post out before heading to the mail trail.
I try to do a daily morning post. I don't remember the last time I missed one.
Why do I do them? Over the years people have told me that I have a gift to write. So, to me, I have a responsibility to the universe. It would be a sin to not use the gift given.
I also enjoy the process. I enjoy connecting with people, too.
In one of his shows Scott Adams layed out how he gets motivated to work out. He said if he at least gets dressed and shows up at the gym he considers it a successful workout.
That's how I currently treat writing. If I get one morning post in a day amidst my other commitments I have succeeded.
But the longing to write more and deeper is always there. My family comes first though. Especially during these turbulent times.
That's all for now. I'm off to help Annie pot plants for Bean Brook Nursery.
I hope you have a great day!
#gm #coffeechain
Photo of wild strawberries we have for sale. Wish the chickens would leave them alone!
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2026-06-20 16:19:18 UTC

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Happy Saturday. Hopefully not too hot! I hope you have a great day. 🙏

2026-06-19 15:55:58 UTC

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GM! I wish you were closer. We always have extra egg cartons. Have a great day!

2026-06-17 12:21:06 UTC

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Good luck with it!

2026-06-16 13:54:24 UTC

"You have a king inside who listens for what delights the soul." ~ Rumi
Good morning. It's 20 to 8. I sit on the couch in a quiet house. No one awake. I have written in my journal and read some Rumi poems.
Rumi reminds me I have a king inside. That's why I read him.
In the same poem he writes:
"There are people with their eyes open whose hearts are shut. What do they see? Matter."
Life gets heavy and hard when I only see matter. It got that way yesterday helping my son work on his car. Fixing the rusty steel on the exhaust and brakes that will inevitably brake down again got heavy and hard.
Yet here we were in my neighbors shop being guided by his decades of experience working on vehicles, trucks, machinery, etc.
Not your typical garage. Most of the time you drop your vehicle off and pick it up when they call to tell you it's done.
We did a lot of the work using his tools and shop. His generosity allowed father and son time to work together on the teenager's car.
Food for the king: Generosity.
No mail trail for the 3rd day in a row. 6 more to go until I go again. I am happy about that.
That's a photo of large-flowered beardtongue from the front meadow.
I hope you have a great day!
#gm #coffeechain
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2026-06-14 13:55:16 UTC

Good morning. That's harebell and the old farm house we used to live in behind it. Living in the old farmhouse with no running water was a rebellion against modern life for me. I don't know what it was for my wife and son. Just home perhaps. A paid for place we lived in while we built cordwood. Cozy I used to hear a lot.
I am still uneasy with modern life. That's where the harebell comes in. It's beautiful. Older than me on an evolutionary time scale. Here long before me, and long after me.
The algorithms of the Digital Age will spin me and everyone else every which way, but not the harebell. That constant is one thing that keeps me coming back to it and its relatives. Grounding and connection.
I hope you have a great day!
#gm #coffeechain
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2026-06-13 12:10:54 UTC

Good morning Nostr.
#gm #coffechain
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2026-06-11 11:43:14 UTC

Good morning. Currently blooming in the front meadow.
Off to the mall trail.
Hope you have a great day!
#gm #coffeechain
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2026-06-09 11:38:51 UTC

Good morning. 5 minutes until I move in the direction of the mail trail.
Cloudy and humid out there. It rained yesterday. Some say we got an inch. It would help if we would empty our rain gauge from previous rains. Get a more accurate measurement that way. :-)
I listen to a lot of content while delivering mail. I have noticed the most calming is always anything concerning biological life. Unfortunately it's the thing that's talked about the least. We forget we're biological beings. Or, as Carl Jung once said, we've repressed our animal.
I'm off!
Bradbury's monarda from the front garden.
#gm #coffeechain
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2026-06-07 17:31:49 UTC

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We gave 6 dozen to my uncle and his new wife yesterday. She demanded we take at least 5 bucks for feed. :-)
Stay cool today!

2026-06-07 17:05:12 UTC

Good morning. Barely. It'll be noon soon. It's warm here. 83 degrees on our thermometer.
We've had one customer at the nursery so far. She bought a few plants and a ring.
We sell more than native plants. Annie, and Sophia (13) sell the crafts they work on while home during the winter. And we also sell Bean Brook Nursery T-shirts, bags, and such. There's other stuff, too. You'll have to check it out when you visit. I was trying to talk Hayden (16) into putting his hand forged bottle openers in there. They're 25 bucks a piece. He's hesitant. I don't know why. It can't hurt to put them out.
We had another good weekend at the nursery. We've been open a month and just the right amount of people have showed up. It's pretty much Annie running it. The kids and I help out when we can. I don't think she's compensated nearly enough for what she does. But we knew that going into this. There's not a lot of money to be made in horticulture. Yet there's so much to native plants, and plants in general that is fascinating.
I started listening to "Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't" videos on the mail route. They're two heavily tattooed guys with Chicago accents that know a lot about native plants and the effects our modern life has on the land and our souls. I like their style. It might not be for everyone though. They use a lot of colorful language.
I'm back to work tomorrow. Should be my day off, but we're short on carriers. The extra money helps. I'm not going to complain.
That's it for now. It's Sunday. A break from the get-up-and-go-gotta-get-it-done mode.
Feeling appreciative to all of you who support our business online and off. Sometimes we wonder if we're going to make it. Anyone who has owned their own business understands the commitment it takes, especially when you first start out. And just how much you depend on customers to help stay afloat.
8 minutes until noon. It's still morning! Time to get outside.
Hope you have a great Sunday!
Photo of columbine and golden alexander's that caught my eye pulling out of the driveway last evening.
#gm #coffeechain #countrtyliving
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2026-05-31 21:44:45 UTC

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Yes! We only plant and sell native lupine. We own a backyard native plant nursery. This is our 4th season.
Where are you located?
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2026-05-31 16:29:00 UTC

Good morning. It's the middle of it. Quiet here. I hear a robin occasionally call and a cricket continuously. I am at the kitchen table. One of my favorite places.
Outside it's 70, sunny, and pregnant with spring. I was out there earlier with Annie while she was watering plants.
I asked her if she plans on dividing up a large pot of sweetgrass into smaller ones to sell. She walked over and grabbed a gallon pot of it. She said, "this one isn't selling." So that looks like something we'll be doing together today.
I enjoy potting up plants with her. Good conversation and a brighter future on the horizon. And more native plants to going home in more hands.
I planted another wild lupine along the ditch on County E last evening. That makes 3 total. I didn't see my neighbor or his dog. A few cars and pickups went by.
One pickup has to be going 80. E is a straight shot east and west for miles. They just sealed the cracks in it the other day. To cover the sealant they use toilet paper. Guessing it prevents tire stickage.
Toilet paper looks like confetti behind pickup trucks at eighty miles an hour in case you were wondering.
I look forward to watching those tiny lupine grow in adversity. The soil is always hotter and drier down by E. Guessing it's the heat coming off the blacktop that does it.
I planted that lupine barefooted with a soil knife. The ground dry and poky under my feet. I packed the fine, dry, sandy soul around the roots and watered it. I look forward to tomorrow's visit and years of blooms to come.
There's a peace in planting plants. I felt it walking back to the house along the ditch facing the settings sun. I wasn't in the mail jeep on the blacktop like I was earlier. The skin on the bottom of my feet touching the earth. Like they did when I was a kid. Barefeet on earth is a simple pleasure I partake in every day.
I remember my Dad push mowing our lawn in his barefeet. It was when we lived in the trailer park. He was young. He stood on factory floors all day wearing steel towed boots. Guessing once he got them off he wanted to keep them off despite the green feet he got out of it.
That's it for now. This was another one that I let go wherever it wanted to go. It feels like okay writing. It usually does after working with plants. If you made it this far I hope you got something out of it. I know I did.
Happy Sunday. 🙏
#gm #coffeechain #countryliving
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2026-05-30 11:42:51 UTC

Good morning. This is going where it's going to go. It'lI be cut short. I have to be on the road in 25 minutes.
I planted two tiny wild lupine last night. Took them off the plant table that Annie has set up for the nursery. I couldn't resist. Seeing the blooming lupine that we have planted in the past as I drive by to deliver our mail encourages more.
I remember planting them imagining I would someday do this. That I would drive down County E and see blooming lupine along our ditch line. Yesterday was that day. I want more of it.
Tell me what you desire and I will tell you who you are, say the German romantics.
While I was planting them one of my neighbors stopped by. He had his dog with him. It's 14 years old. He didn't know if it would make it through the night. It's dying.
I was tired. Had a hundred things I wanted to get done before dark. He told me the news. I stopped what I was doing to listen and give my attention. I hope it was enough. It didn't feel like it.
I was run ragged though. Delivered over a hundred packages and mail in 90 degree heat. Got home immediately helped Annie plant Pennsylvania Sedge. And....
I hope his dog hung on. And when it does go it goes peacefully. It's hard to lose them.
Off to the mail trail. I hope you have a great day!
#gm #coffeechain #coutryliving
5.30.26
https://blossom.primal.net/cfb3d46d0c3b60d5ad9e0b41514ddf5cf28e10b34f0b98ea1242f89c94f32e1c.jpg

2026-05-29 11:41:49 UTC

Good morning!
Off to the mail trail. 📬
Hope you have a great day!
5.29.26
#gm #coffeechain
https://blossom.primal.net/040105468666715ad0e067bfaa5848863008c160fdd42941b0d3b984ce436eaa.jpg

2026-05-28 11:43:48 UTC

Good morning Nostr.
I hope you all have a great day!
Off to the mail trail.
5.28.26
https://blossom.primal.net/a8275c36f0561360915586a34cb3970394f51af4997dea15782cd6a4c2b64226.jpg

2026-05-27 17:53:50 UTC

From the mail trail: I enter lunch break on my scanner. Slip my socks and shoes off. And step into Bass Patterson Lake.
5.27.26
#counrtyliving #daily
https://blossom.primal.net/e8eca315af3ef77298fe72b175a1911e57462e52037acba2c60a8bcd58ad6c7b.jpg

2026-05-27 11:42:38 UTC

GM!
From our front meadow. This caught my eye pulling out of the driveway to finish up the mail route yesterday.
Hope you have a great day!
5.27.26
#gm #coffeechain
https://blossom.primal.net/6eb1a00d6e3ff168b25be107c11d46f6648e3c6f796bd317a388c4fa543fa1e1.jpg

2026-05-27 00:31:44 UTC

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The earth was not created for humans.

2026-05-26 11:43:04 UTC

Good morning. Back to the mail trail today. Day after a holiday. It'll be heavy today.
No fire for two mornings in a row now. Yesterday Annie woke up and asked me if I was going to be alright. LOL.
Those are wild strawberries blooming on our plant tables. If it's not photos of fires it flowers. The focus: earthy things. Deep connection. Body and mind become one. Beauty.
Hope you have a great day!
5.26.26
#gm #cofffeechain
https://blossom.primal.net/20ff836b8d29d623e6b51793fd3bd506048ebbe5e6bb9d8f55285b8f26d815e3.jpg

2026-05-25 15:33:25 UTC

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GM. Have a great Monday!

2026-05-25 15:23:26 UTC

10 AM. Good morning. No fire this morning. It's midmorning already. Unusual posting at this time of day.
That's a wild lupine from our front meadow. They will be blooming soon.
It's done well out there. To the point where there might be too many. We'll leave them alone though. They'll bloom, die back, and other plants will emerge. Layering, life cycles, and learning happening. We hope.
We're taking a family trip to Dragonfly Nursery today. We've been doing this since 2018. We started buying natives then.
Time went on, and our appetite for natives grew. It got to the point where we started growing them to save money. Then eventually we started to sell them to make money. And here we are. Four years into Bean Brook Nursery.
We're off. We hope you have a great Memorial Day!
5.25.26
#gm #countryliving #plants #natives
https://blossom.primal.net/42db8b1bb47c393e339f7bf99e4dfbbd13aec21adc4b599713907d9168f9e18b.jpg

2026-05-24 13:30:05 UTC

Good morning. Pretty sure this is the last fire of the season. It's supposed to be in the 80's this week. It's close to 50 out there, foggy and cool at 8 AM. Hopefully the house doesn't get too warm today. I figure we'll be opening the windows no matter what.
The fires are hard to stop once I start. It's been 224 of them. I started lighting them back in September. I enjoy them. The light, the heat, and attention it requires. A 4 to 5 month break is nice, too though.
That's all for now. Looking forward to sun and seventies today. Hope you have a great Sunday!
#gm #coffeechain
https://blossom.primal.net/7b5d381d71a099b7e1bbb73543ff0ee25756ab129a228f7e7413c30a346d9bf4.jpg

2026-05-23 12:02:28 UTC

6:40 AM. Puddles in the driveway. Chickadees sing spring song. Things feeling fresh at the nursery before heading to the Mail Trail.
5.23.26
#countryliving #gm
https://blossom.primal.net/38800c124304dfb459333ec5dec9895c10c75827fc98ae59831ccda040af4a32.jpg

2026-05-23 11:12:13 UTC

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GM! Hope you were able to cool down and rest. :-)

2026-05-21 11:31:13 UTC

A visitor while doing stomach crunches.
#countryliving
https://blossom.primal.net/652df04a597e2848db97281f322a58ac73f121714bfc25d339b658c4aa5a7035.mp4

2026-05-21 11:28:16 UTC

Good morning. It's 6:20 AM. I took the fire photo at 6 AM. Did some writing by hand after that.
A writer friend posted how it's better for your brain to write by hand. That's according to a neuroscientist. I long to someday write pages and pages full of words, edit it, and publish it. The point would be to become more clear in my thinking and surprise myself with what comes out of me.
Right now finances and family take precedent. I'm off to the mail trail. I hope you have a great day!
Morning Fire 221
5.21.26
#gm #coffeechain
https://blossom.primal.net/970298e9506a81904b7bf5596f702529c3a1ceda869c90ac7837cc8922c7f3c8.jpg

2026-05-20 11:36:36 UTC

GM🔥6:30 AM. 40 degrees out there. Maybe it'll hit 70 today. Perfect working weather.
Off to the mail trail.
Morning Fire 220
5.20.26
#gm #coffeechain
https://blossom.primal.net/b722c42d80d709780f77e7e1bc1fe79089ba8f78bd5ac7c57f141138d5a26cc3.jpg

2026-05-19 11:39:18 UTC

GM🔥 In front of Morning Fire 219. A day or two of fires, and that'll be it. I will miss them.
Off to the mail trail in a bit. It's after two days off with rest. Napped both days. Feel refreshed.
Hope you have a great day!
5.19.26
#gm #coffeechain
https://blossom.primal.net/841883cd94e4193566bc1486c7144c78a0bb99386952e1260b94ef502329dc24.jpg

2026-05-19 11:24:27 UTC

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GM! Woke up to rain in northwest Wisconsin, too. Have a great day.

2026-05-18 23:34:56 UTC

#bitcoin
https://blossom.primal.net/8560c5db89a05435393f9bb181048712376d1f4b76ca3facee78eda62b7886b3.jpg

2026-05-18 14:43:45 UTC

GM🔥 It's 9 AM. Just closed the fire down. Probably didn't need one today. But I like sitting in front of my fires. I have sat in front of 218 of them this burning season. Burning season is coming to an end soon for us.
It's late. Usually I am writing on this thing around six. Morning is half over from this vantage point.
There was a message from my neighbor when I turned my phone on. He's working on my mail jeep. Before he started buying parts and putting money into it he wanted to make sure it was okay.
A half hour later we hung up.
I'm blessed with good neighbors. My neighbor, the mechanic, helps us keep our old vehicles running. Just down the road is the neighbor I pay a monthly payment for the jeep currently being worked on. She didn't have to finance it. And in between them is a neighbor who recently gifted us a bunch of homemade Italian sausage and plants native plants from our nursery.
Like my mechanic neighbor said to me this morning, "We gotta get through this thing together."
That was a good reminder. I needed to hear that.
I'm off to make the most of my Monday off. Tomorrow it's back to the mail trail.
5.18.26
#coffeechain #gm
https://blossom.primal.net/7ef2123a175008608f93bdd1da324ca490f154f09abca050584f52d008463707.jpg

2026-05-17 23:48:57 UTC

Thought of The Heart.
#soul #poetry
https://blossom.primal.net/72a0edc58d5730908fb736286934ea5d6abba43a75d19836cb7f27d5b6cc80db.jpg

2026-05-17 23:43:20 UTC

That's Hayden. He's 16. One of my sons. He built this coal forge with help from my neighbor and family. He sought out a mentor in our community and learned how to forge steel and weld. He's never been to school. Homeschooled, if you want to call it schooling at all.
I don't fully understand the process. Because I spent 14 years in some sort of schooling or another. I just read about homeschooling in my mid twenties. It made sense. And I like to try things that make sense to me. So we did.
I understand it's not for everybody. I am glad schools do exist. I am also thankful we have the freedom not to send our kids if we don't want to.
5.17.26
#homeschooling #proofofdad
https://blossom.primal.net/2e53321d5dcd05a1c9a0dcb29c51ebbc0bed459d72b197b30118b3ca9dfd236a.mp4

2026-05-17 14:06:59 UTC

We look to ease our pain, and this keeps civilization
moving along. Fear is the architect here.
Fear keeps us working near the ark. ~ Rumi
GM🔥 It's ten to eight. Sunday. The fire in the photo about burned down. No one awake yet. I've been up since 4:30. That's when I get up to go to work. To deliver mail.
I waited an hour and a half to start my morning routine. A cold shower, then 40 minutes of meditation.
I didn't have to be anywhere on time. So I pet the cat that purs next to my head in bed. Scratch my wife's arm. Tell her I love her. She doesn't hear me most of the time. I go in and hug my 16 year old son in bed when he's sound asleep.
It keeps the worry at bay. It gets me out of myself. Relationship. Touch. A way to be home again.
I know I need to be tough, stoic disciplined .I do that too. That was the past 6 days..
There's that voice in back of my head telling me I have "free" time. I should be doing this, that, and every other god damn thing.
Dis ease is what it is. Sometimes I think smoking weed would fix it. Drinking worked until the next morning. Then the worry would hit harder. I really could see it when I started meditating.
The worry started up again when I started working full time for the Post office. That was officially 3 years ago. But as a part timer I was going full time back in 2020 already.
I have spent my whole life trying to understand this worry. Because there's something inside of me that tells me it's not supposed to be there. Always concerned about a future collapse of this or that.
A coworker and I got all dystopian about the data centers and AI yesterday morning. We're both middle aged men. Our kids mostly old enough to be looking at life beyond mom and Dad.
Another coworker, a young woman of 24 listening in says, "I want to have kids, but with all the AI stuff happening now I don't know."
The only thing I could tell her after a bit of silence was I was dead set against having kids until I was 34. Then I wasn't. And it was one of the best things I ever did. Maybe the best.
That's what's on my mind right now. I look forward to being outside working around our place and helping out with our native plant nursery.
I hope you have a great day.
#gm #coffeechain
Morning Fire 217
5.17.26
https://blossom.primal.net/b155a31a3559e875d89510c76fb9a02537f6a67a3bdd2ac66038336ff917057c.jpg

2026-05-15 11:41:27 UTC

GM🔥
Off to the mail trail. It's Friday. One more day, then two days off.
I hope you have a great day!
Morning Fire 215
5.15.26
#gm #coffeechain
https://blossom.primal.net/6761df29b41c0a5ca4c593405adac62a2c44c451e9fd247f75397a81f8a6beeb.jpg

2026-05-14 11:31:43 UTC

GM🔥 In front of Morning Fire 214. Leave to start the Ford in a few minutes. It'll blow blue smoke out the exhaust when it starts. Then it lets up. Been doing that since we owned it. Bought it during Covid. It's from southern Wisconsin. We got it home in the early hours of the morning. I ran it out of gas about a mile from the house. Close to the Mackey crick as a matter of fact.
I went to work the next day. Annie came down with Covid. I called her to come in and help me. I didn't know the route that well. I was a sub at the time. Under great protest she came in and helped me anyway.
Off to the mail trail.
5.14.26
#gm #coffeechain
https://blossom.primal.net/6596f6e9dc1265977ad9732cdd1c76ffc1b4f20fc6f498071ccc787fa2407d38.jpg

2026-05-13 11:30:33 UTC

GM🔥 6:19 AM. Took the fire picture at 6:02. Right around 6 AM lately is when I usually do.
Today is day 3 of 6 on the mail trail. I wrote in my journal that I miss being home. I also like being in the world of work making money while I still can. Our native plant nursery, now in its 4th season, is supposed to eventually bridge that gap.
I remember living with my grandparents. It got to the point where my grandma couldn't go out and work anymore. This was back in the 90's. She was somewhere in her mid to late fifties. She always talked about how she wished she could go back to work at the nursing home. That was 30 some years ago, and she's still going at home.
Off to the world of work. I hope you have a great day!
Morning Fire 213
5.13.26
#gm #coffeechain
https://blossom.primal.net/28ccf10a6d04e83cc44ab7c92b19dc17fc9a3885481794a6acab22427b53074e.jpg

2026-05-10 15:12:46 UTC

"China knows." ~ Lawrence Lepard
#bitcoin #money #gold #China
https://blossom.primal.net/e51ceef5ecff35b95044acd8a4bb0bd8061ee6c64d3c79b32101870190c12d31.jpg

2026-05-09 11:14:57 UTC

GM🔥 from the front of Morning Fire 209.
5.9.26
#gm #coffeechain
https://blossom.primal.net/34beddd0c8ecdc780db738a222a86040007e280408e0fec8abb98ae424370f20.jpg

2026-05-08 11:16:39 UTC

6 AM. Good morning from the front of morning fire 208. Not many of these left. It's 28 out there now. Supposed to get up in the 60's today.
Today is the opening day of Bean Brook Nursery. This is our 4th season. It's hard to believe.
Time is short. I have other things to do before leaving for the mail trail. Like reading some Rumi or something that reminds me of the mystery.
I hope you have a great day!
5.8.26
#gm #coffeechain
https://blossom.primal.net/7ef2123a175008608f93bdd1da324ca490f154f09abca050584f52d008463707.jpg

2026-05-04 13:41:37 UTC

GM🔥 It's 56 out there. Not supposed to get much warmer today. Looks like I will still be doing morning fires this week. I expect to be done sometime next week. My journal says I haven't went beyond the second seek of May in the past
I'll miss it and be relieved as usual. It's relaxing to sit in front of the fire and it's work The break is nice. I forget the fires, falls rolls around, and the cold helps me remember and appreciate them again.
We helped Annie prepare plants and things for Opening Day (May 8th!) of the nursery yesterday. A busy day. Good to be home working around the place. I did get a nap in though. All is well We'll be back at it today.
Until next time. I hope you have a great day!
Morning Fire 204
5.4.26
#gm #coffeechain
https://blossom.primal.net/65823ffc1cae9dc27d4f097d4b2f3113769b204747965000a6828f005ed5c39f.jpg

2026-05-03 13:42:04 UTC

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So were my sons compared to me at 12. We homeschool/unschool (whatever you want to call it) them. I think that has something to do with it.

2026-05-03 12:36:47 UTC

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GM! Have a great Sunday!

2026-05-03 12:35:22 UTC

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Very nice. How old's your son?

2026-05-02 11:40:32 UTC

GM🔥 Saturday. It got down to 27 last night. Left the hose on. Thankfully it wasn't frozen at 4:30 this morning. Took the sprayer off and emptied what wasn't frozen.
The Full Moon caught my attention before bed. That was about midnight. It was straight south and somewhat small I thought for a Full Moon. There will be another one on May 31st. The Blue Moon. Two this month.
I have Monday off. That'll give me 2 days in a row. Looking forward to it. It's been a couple of weeks of 6 days a week.
Annie will be potting barefoot plants that they delivered yesterday. Wasn't me. Must've beem FedEx or UPS.
They'll hopefully root in in a timely manner and she'll sell them.
Off to the mail trail. Hope you have a great day!
#gm #coffeechain
Morning Fire 202
5 2.26
https://blossom.primal.net/8796414be12dabc432762a76d8124750c52b2e1a386cca496cee9541d62c7a10.jpg

2026-04-30 11:20:16 UTC

Good morning 🔥
Morning Fire 200
4.30.26
#gm #coffeechain
https://blossom.primal.net/fe202c49ac18ccd5d28cbc81202a9916c192aa277dca344efd9036c9120e8149.jpg

2026-04-26 16:45:16 UTC

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Who do I attribute this quote to? Gigi? Anonymous?

2026-04-25 11:41:07 UTC

GM🔥 39 out there. Day 6 of the mail trail. Tomorrow the start of two days off. Looking forward to falling into the rhythm of home for a few days.
Until tomorrow morning. I hope you have a great day!
Morning Fire 195
#gm #coffeechaim
https://blossom.primal.net/ecd380f034cee37f3a0b12ee027a61d2cd368ea8c75d696842bf4c9e00728afc.jpg

2026-04-24 11:32:22 UTC

GM🔥 Lightly raining out there. It's 44 give or take a few degrees. Gearing up for my 5th day on the mail trail. One more, then 2 days off.
Otherwise it's quiet. Don't have much to say this morning besides hope you have a great day!
Morning Fire 194
4.24.26
#gm #cofffeechain
https://blossom.primal.net/33ddf1fc0aa21815aae7dc4a3a2105eefe7fb84d239e22054ba953e0013d6725.jpg

2026-04-20 11:40:37 UTC

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GM. Love the meme. Made me laugh. Enjoy the quiet time. :-)

2026-04-20 11:39:16 UTC

GM 🔥
Off to start the mail jeep in a few minutes. It's 25 out there. I'll let it warm up a bit. Always nice to get into to something semi warm. Plus I think it's better on the engine and transmission. I pull out of my driveway it's 0 to 60 east on E.
Stacked BTC @ 75K this morning. I should just go all in! My full days wages into it. Fuck it. Let it ride. Not quite there yet though.
I do want to eventually run a node though. I've heard they're not plug and play though.
I stop in at my mom's today. I step in and say hi to her and my Grandma and hand them the mail daily. My grandma is starting to call her the "woman that lives here." It's getting to my mom.
I'm off to the mall trail. I hope you have a great day!
#gm #coffeechain
Morning Fire 190
4.20.26
https://blossom.primal.net/f870a6f397b58384cc071f3412e0368b1fff1aae619e3c1ba1051352a4693331.jpg

2026-04-19 18:12:17 UTC

We broke ground in 2005. We moved in 2008. During those years we lived in the old farmhouse in our front yard. Which is slowly falling down and returning to the earth, like we all do.
It took discipline to build it. It's taken discipline to live in it. Wisconsin winters are long and cold. We have one source of heat: The masonry stove that the earth roof rests on.
I lit Morning Fire 189 this morning. We'll break 200 like we do every year. We're already cutting firewood for next winter.
We built it debt free. We were Bitcoiners back then, but didn't know it yet. Creating something of value and not spending beyond our means.
My grandma, who survived the Great Depression, used to say that a lot: Don't live beyond your means!
I miss that. There was a wisdom in it. I could feel it beyond the words.
Yet I knew it was different times. We were encouraged to spend, go into debt for this or that, and live by impulse.
After the jets crashed into the Trade Towers on September 11th, 2001 President Bush reminded us to go shopping.
That's it for now. I was out in the front yard getting ready to plug my tire, looked at the house, and had to sit down and write.
It's my day off. I have some space to write about place. There's power in place. I like it when I can tap into it.
Until next time.
4.19.26
#daily #memoir #soul
https://blossom.primal.net/0e6ee0c9b270458e0d755b4c2b047038203f59301ba4c932a7ed8e0f845e12da.jpg

2026-04-19 16:28:21 UTC

Yes. I see money is stored energy and value. Once I understood how the money I am able to save is set up to lose value Bitcoin became a priority for me.
#bitcoin
https://blossom.primal.net/224f5e1d092272b14c5e4165308f8b69c029b44193281073a175f224798adcc2.jpg

2026-04-17 11:31:10 UTC

GM Nostr🔥
I bought into the Bitcoin network this morning. I always like starting my day off doing that.
I hope you have a great day.
I am off to the mail trail.
Morning Fire 187
4.17.26
#gm #coffeechain
https://blossom.primal.net/e1e04c99323d7ee6fd4b5bcd717d25f3687a1e2ee2daed922fb32c5f80d810d0.jpg

2026-04-16 14:47:26 UTC

From the Mail Trail: The Soul of a Swamp in Spring in Springbrook
4.16.26
#countryliving #place
https://blossom.primal.net/ae22da28f39cc692269b9a98b7b52d99e2398d35f662253a6d72734f6135f524.mp4

2026-04-14 11:30:22 UTC

GM 🔥 In front of Morning Fire 184. Down to burning one a day. It is supposed to get up into the 60's today.
Back to the mail trail for 5 days. Fresh after 2 days off. Glad to not be fighting snowbanks and icy roads.
The spring peepers go all night in the lowlands right now.
I layed on my back last night and looked up at he clouds. The intention was to do stomach crunches. The swirling of the clouds in front of the backdrop of blue drew me in. Gave me pause. It was mesmerizing . . . magical. A remembering.
This happens on occasion. I tell myself I need to look up more often. I always forget. The stomach crunches got done.
Off to the mail trail.
I hope you have a great day.
P.S. I am also happy Bitcoin is up.
#gm #coffeechain
https://blossom.primal.net/60042dd9fb78f011cb5e6cb4f07e01766cbe12ec08c3158ade22c26c235b4a1a.jpg

2026-04-12 13:51:01 UTC

GM Nostr🔥
Sunday. A day off from the mail trail. Not from stacking SATs though.
Fred Krueger wrote this on X:
---
"Switch to a Bitcoin standard.
Think of your net worth entirely in Bitcoin terms.
"Everything will get cheaper over time.
Real estate will look like a bad investment.
You won't be inclined to trade.
"On a Bitcoin standard you use some of your Bitcoin to borrow off of. You never sell."
---
@nprofile…0j5p has made living on a Bitcoin standard possible for us. It wasn't before we downloaded Strike.
That's all for now.
I hope you have a great Sunday.
Morning Fire 182
4.12.26
#gm #bitcoin #coffeechain
https://blossom.primal.net/ac6a3c547fba494257353cb1fe8d72e5ce6488ad5e78113a7004246d4fd92e75.jpg

2026-04-11 01:46:38 UTC

Spring at fifty one
Hoping for another one,
before I'm done
with this run.
#daily
https://blossom.primal.net/8fafb53b59716c536f5159ae201772777bfc8edfe57069942ce76c551c5f9395.jpg

2026-04-09 11:28:46 UTC

GM Nostr🔥
Morning Fire 179
4.9.26
#gm #coffeechain
https://blossom.primal.net/52854ffede2a0b33bc219da7103dfcd7edd99039a098587dd08b20fae125955b.jpg

2026-04-08 11:29:04 UTC

Good morning from the front of Morning Fire 178. I'm running late. The fire wouldn't start this morning. Operator error for the most part. It's Wednesday,. Not my hump day. That's tomorrow. Anyway, I hope you have a great day today.
Off to the mail trail. 📬
4.8.26
#gm #coffeechain
https://blossom.primal.net/5f394b21c541e09711e04f22128422f8a0cbbbacc6be2e435ae8a497065a9723.jpg

2026-04-06 15:39:17 UTC

An Earthy Easter Story
We had Easter at Grandma's house yesterday. Four miles from here as the crow flies. She has a lot of plants growing from our native plant nursery.
It didn't get much above 40 during the day. We woke up to a light blanket of snow that mostly melted off from the morning sun.
In other words, it gets wintery yet. And here's Jacob's Ladder getting ready for its May bloom. Last year we took pictures of it in bloom on May 15th.
4.6.26
#daily #nativeplants #easter
https://blossom.primal.net/12384c0642c5ca79a26d2198f816f8290fe097056a51358dd8ca044055c83dce.jpg

2026-04-05 23:42:43 UTC

"Why did Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous inventor of bitcoin, list April 5 as his birthday?
"On April 5, 1933, FDR signed Executive Order 6102 which made it illegal for Americans to own gold.
"Satoshi's message was clear: Bitcoin can't be confiscated the way gold was." ~ Joel Bomgar
#bitcoin #satoshi
https://blossom.primal.net/97acbedb696e5cfd22a424ebf293f3787f7b1f431c574f16b5fc3d7c44458b75.jpg

2026-04-05 12:50:17 UTC

I would have ignored or laughed at this 5 years ago. Not anymore. I think it has the potential to.
#bitcoin #money #peace
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2026-04-04 16:38:53 UTC

From the Mail Trail: The Namekagon speaks to anyone willing to listen.
Springbrook, Wisconsin
4.4.26
#mailtrail #wisconsin #water #rivers
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2026-04-03 11:03:16 UTC

If you are often angry, trace the roots in story and then apply your anger as a force and a sharp edge to whatever you do. Don't indulge in venting. Always convert and transform your anger into something worthwhile. Let people see and feel your anger, but don't explode every time you feel it.
~ Thomas Moore
#quotes #soul #psychology

2026-04-02 15:55:51 UTC

From the mail trail. April in Northwest Wisconsin.
#mailtrail
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2026-04-02 11:37:30 UTC

GM Nostr 🔥
Morning Fire 172
4.2.26
#gm #coffeechain
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2026-04-02 11:15:28 UTC

Most people have never heard of the Cantillon Effect.
But once you understand it, you’ll see the world of investing differently.
What is it?
In the early 1700s, Richard Cantillon noticed a simple pattern:
When new money enters an economy, it doesn’t reach everyone at once.
And whoever gets it first benefits the most.
Here’s how it works today:
New liquidity enters through the Fed and through bank lending.
Both follow a similar pattern:
→ Markets and large balance sheets get first access
→ Large corporations and well-connected borrowers tap cheap credit next, they invest and expand at today’s prices
→ Asset prices tend to rise as new liquidity chases finite assets
→ Consumer prices often follow
→ Wages rise last, usually after purchasing power has already declined
Fed data shows how lopsided the playing field is:
- The top 10% hold nearly 90% of equities.
- The bottom 50% holds about 1%.
It’s a simple but powerful monetary transmission.
Understanding this won’t change the system.
But it might change how you think about where to store your savings.
~ James Lavish on X
#bitcoin
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2026-04-02 11:08:59 UTC

New York is determined to become a failed state.
Imagine you bought a home decades ago, stuck with New York through all it's graft, corruption while saving for retirement.
This lowers the tax-exempt threshold to $750,000, targeting real estate, cash, and investments while increasing the top tax rate to 50%.
It includes a new surcharge on realized capital gains exceeding $500,000 annually.
You hear that sucking sound.
That's people with functioning brains packing up and heading south.
Florida real estate about to get an influx if this passes. ~ George Bodine on X
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2026-04-01 11:39:17 UTC

GM Nostr🔥
Off to the mail trail soon. I hope you have a great day.
Morning Fire 171
4.1.26
#gm #coffeechain
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2026-03-31 12:20:03 UTC

In the fog of war they told us two weeks to stop the spread.
In the fog of war they told us a couple week of bombing Iran would do it.
They make too much war.

2026-03-31 11:42:03 UTC

GM🔥 Back to the mail trail for 5 days. Leaving in 5 minutes. Just above freezing out there. No ice on standing water. They're calling for snow this week. Not going to sweat it. It won't be around long.
I hope you have a great day.
Morning Fire 170
3.31.26
#gm #coffeechain
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2026-03-31 11:20:50 UTC

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Well said. Thank you for the reminder. 🙏

2026-03-30 12:46:18 UTC

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Hope you have a great Monday as well.