Jordan

Now that the bugs are gone we are cutting trails and adventuring in the woods!

This book is a banger! Disagree with about a third of it, but it is remarkably prescient and thought-provoking. To be extremely reductionistic, it's a very down to earth and historical meditation on the intersection of spirituality [in the most broad sense] and modern "progress". If you like Ian McGilcrest's thought patterns or are one of those people who Jekyll and Hyde between the esoteric and technologic, pick this up!

I think a _majority_ of oppressive patterns can be chaulked up to unnatural incentive structures, not macro-conspiratorial overlords.

Birthday gifts this year: Old-school brass handle knife Wool coat Logger boots A good robe [very important for yurt life]

I've been trying to figure out how to articulate this for at least a month. I love that feeling when someone just nails an idea you've been struggling to explain to people. "Bitcoin does not recreate the old wealth class, it destroys the unearned wealth class. Yes, you can get rich. But to stay rich, you have to produce more than you consume. You can't print. You can't leech. You have to work. Proof of work. That's the difference." -Jack mallers

Got the rims done for a little landing and deck we are putting on the front of the yurt after church today.

My primary legacy won't be as a writer, homesteader, or bitcoiner. This is my legacy. They raise me up. They are my very heart. Spending my life to love and protect them is such a privilege. I feel like the richest man in the world...

Confidence without competence is just pride. Don't teach your kids to be confident, make them skilled. 1) We have a barebones curriculum and spend most of the rest of their education teaching them sustainable food, housing, budgeting and faith. 2) They are ravenous readers because we will buy them books about any subject they are interested in. 3) We also have a heavy emphasis on history, identifying scams, and negotiating.

The hardest part of living in a yurt is how fast it can get messy if we aren't careful. On of my favorite parts is that we can clean and organized everything in 15-20 mins.

Gn nostr!

My wife is a gifted homemaker. I don't mean this figuratively. She is world-class. We could literally live in a shoe box, and she could make it feel like a Hobbit hole. One of the many reasons I proposed 4 months after meeting her. 13 years later...

But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven.

Almost done with the shower stall, just soaking up our little mountain while I rested, we've had back to back birthday parties all month, and watching the Hobbit with kids tonight.

Happy Halloween, nostr! Beautiful weather, charlie brown, pumpkin cookie, popcorn, kielbasa, ginger tea, and I'm about an hour away from lighting up the stove! Couldn't ask for a better holiday.

Another off-grid achievement unlocked for the yurts! Indoor fire. 😁

I achieved many things that I believed would make me feel I'd "made it". The feeling that I seek was never on the other side of accomplishment. It's almost always there in the quiet moments with my family, reading, and in prayer. Where does the irresistible urge to accomplish more come from, and why can't I turn it off?

Fall is here in TN! Complete with moody clouds and drizzly rain. We also got some more goats.

I've been working overtime on my novel, so I haven't been posting much, but I've been doing a lot of word-craft and thought I'd share something interesting. The etymology of mortgage is latin and french "mort" and "gage". It literally means "death pledge".

Fought in my first BJJ competition and got silver. A little disappointing but I way underestimated the conditioning requires to maintain high output work during an adrenaline dump but otherwise I felt great. I learned later that one of my defeated opponents was a judo black belt. My whole family was able to watch! Hearing their little voices cheering me on was powerful. As an adult, it's been harder and harder for me to find things that challenge and scare me a but I think it's so important to push that boundary and continue to grow in courage and strength. We also have to set that example for little ones. They learn courage by watching courage, not by being told to be courageous.

My kids invented a game called avalanche with all the walnuts that fall around the yurt! I was particularly proud of them for making a ruleset that includesls the littles! Now fall will always be avalanche season for us. 😁 These kids have my heart...