The Coyotes in Black Hawk CO.

This seems wrong to me.

We had a diverse group of gamblers at the casino and I needed to look up terms like these at times. Ren Tien luck is part of the Tien-Ti-Ren system, also known as The Cosmic Trinity in classical Chinese thoughts on life. Tien (Heaven) luck refers to the destiny or circumstances you are born into, such as your birth chart, astrology, and factors outside your control. Di (Earth) luck is influenced by your environment and Feng Shu. How well you harmonize with your surroundings and the energies around you made a difference. Ren (Human/Mankind) luck involves your own choices, actions, effort, education and attitude. Ren luck tended to be the most influential factor on the gambler's mind, because you could change and control your luck through decisions, past actions and your ablity to find patterns . The ole' gambler's fallacy.

I was once told by one of my old gamblers the lying and lying in wait are the secrets of success at poker.

"I have a system" are the sweetest words a casino owner can hear.

A man has gotta make at least one bet a day else he could be walking around lucky and never know it. -Let it Ride.

It can be argued that man's instinct to gamble is the only reason he is still not a monkey up in the trees. -Mario Puzo

The law of big numbers is a classroom lesson I teach in reference to slot machine statistics (my casino background makes this mandatory), flowing into stars in the universe and grains of sand on earth. I use lessons like these as a good opportunity to mention Bitcoin security. Guessing someone's Bitcoin seed phrase would be as likely as finding one particular grain of sand on earth kind of stuff. It's difficult for my students to grasp numbers that big. I recently read an article comparing the number of stars in the universe with grains of sand on earth. The Winner?

There's no neutral ground anymore.

Sugar is mainlined in mass.

A young family stopped by the back yard for a visit.

The smoke from the Western slope fires make a beautiful sky over the Continental Divide.

The solo miner is the modern day panner.

That time you realized it was all corporate propaganda manufactured to promote lifelong debt servitude.

School starts soon. We'll look back at these times in the future and realize self-carry cell phones were a mistake. It will be looked at much like student cigarette smoking areas are today.

I miss a bunch of my old gamblers from the casino days. Some of the most resilient people you can meet.

Old one but a good one.

Anyone can be in a great mood if they win the lottery.

This photo helped me visualize the enemy. I started to imagine all my organs in the same condition.

Great people and great movements are often misunderstood.