GM 🔥 Nostr. It's 8:30. Still feels like 7:30. Thermometer reads 46 degrees. Way above average I was out earlier dumping buckets of water for the animals. Before I got this fire going. Sunrise just happened. Chickadee song reminded me of spring. It's thinking about it, as my grandpa used to say. The rest of the family is till in bed. I don't know what we're going to do today. It's my last day off. Part of me wants to not get too far from the house. Do the usual chores. Stay inside this afternoon, admire the dog and cats curled up in their nap spots, and maybe take one myself. Tomorrow it's iback to the mail trail. Over a hundred miles of moving mail and packages. Bought some Bitcoin at 68K this morning. It's way down in price. Part of my attraction to Bitcoin, I think, is that it's way bigger than me or anyone else. Some people don't like it because the President speaks favorably of it. What they don't understand is he needs it way more than it needs him. Bitcoin submits to the laws of nature. It can't be controlled politically. We have never had money like this. I hope you have a great day. Morning Fire 149 3.926 #gm #coffeechain #bitcojn

When I listen to Michael Saylor talk about Bitcoin my worries about Bitcoin lift. My journey into Bitcoin started when Tucker ' Carlson interviewed him in 2022. He is in a league all of his own. His skill stack (Scott Adam's coined the term), I think, put him there. #bitcoin

Would you rather doom scroll or bloom scroll? Photo from Bean Brook Nursery, our backyard native plant nursery in Northwest Wisconsin. Purple Coneflower (Echinacea purpurea) #nativeplants #proofofwork

GM🔥 I noticed when I write to Nostr it feels different compared to Facebook. I don't feel like censoring myself as much. I can say what I want to say without predictable reactions. That being said I feel less inclined to post provocatively here. I don't want it to turn into a Big Tech platform. Maybe Jeff Booth is right. The current system depends on us blaming others and those up there. That way we don't have to take responsibility for our own actions that perpetuate this current system of extraction, centralization, and control. Nostr, like Bitcoin is decentralized. Outside the centralized system. Maybe that's where the hope lies. I heard Michael Saylor describe decentralizion with an analogy the other day. Attacking a decentralized system is like attacking a hornets nest with a pistol. You only end up getting hurt and the hornets nest get stronger. Anyway, just musing first thing in the morning on my day off from the mail trail. I hope you have a great day. Morning Fire 133 2.23.26 #gm #coffeechain #nostr

GM Nostr 🔥 Off to the mail trail. Let's keep building a better world. I hope you have a great day. Morning Fire 131 2.20.26 #gm #coffeechain

6 AM. GM. Back to the mail trail today. It's 26 out there. Snow and ice have been melting under the sun the past 4 days. Hopefully there'll be less ice and snow on roads, and mailboxes will start to grow taller again. Signing off from the front of Morning Fire 128. I hope you have a great day. 2.17.26 #gm #coffeechain

An eye is meant to see things. The soul is here for its own joy. A head has one use: For loving a true love. Feet: To chase after. Love is for vanishing into the sky. The mind, for learning what men have done and tried to do. Mysteries are not to be solved: The eye goes blind when it only wants to see why. A lover is always accused of something. But when he finds his love, whatever was lost in the looking comes back completely changed. ~ Rumi #poetry #soul #Rumi

My wife and daughter paint these. My daughter is 13 and homeschooled. My wife a stay at home mom. This wouldn't be possible without Bitcoin. Feeling blessed. #Bitcoin #proofofwork #soul #homeschool #family

I asked Nostr what moves users to Zap. One person responds: " . . . .most of the time it‘s when I see proof of work in the form of a painting, a poem, an article, or some physical thing the nostrich made." I feel more at home here after reading this. I feel like our family were nostriches before the protocol presented itself. We started building our cordwood house 20 years ago. And 4 years ago we started a native plant nursery. #nativeplants #countryliving #plebchain

"You yourself are participating in the evil, or you are not alive. Whatever you do is evil for somebody. This is one of the ironies of the whole creation." ~ Joseph Campbell #soul #philosophy #quotes

"Why do we focus so intensely on our problems? What draws us to them? Why are they so attractive? They have the magnet power of love: somehow we desire our problems; we are in love with them much as we want to get rid of them . . . Problems sustain us -- maybe that's why they don't go away. What would a life be without them? Completely tranquilized and loveless . . . There is a secret love hiding in each problem." ~ James Hillman #quotes #soul #psychology #love

Hold, hold, hold.... #bitcoin

A memory: In reading James Hillman I learn we are Christian at heart and Greek in mind. I'm a Western man. It's the substance of my psyche. #soul #memoir #depthpsychology

There are two kinds of intelligence: one acquired, as a child in school memorizes facts and concepts from books and from what the teacher says, collecting information from the traditional sciences as well as from the new sciences. With such intelligence you rise in the world. You get ranked ahead or behind others in regard to your competence in retaining information. You stroll with this intelligence in and out of fields of knowledge, getting always more marks on your preserving tablets. There is another kind of tablet, one already completed and preserved inside you. A spring overflowing its springbox. A freshness in the center of the chest. This other intelligence does not turn yellow or stagnate. It's fluid, and it doesn't move from outside to inside through conduits of plumbing-learning. This second knowing is a fountainhead from within you, moving out. ~ Rumi #soul #Rumi

Any wine will get you high. Judge like a king, and choose the purest, not the ones adulterated with fear, or some urgency about "what's needed." ~®Rumi GM. It's -5 out there. I leave for the mail trail in a half hour. Feeling rested. The moon and stars were out last night. I layed in the snow and looked at them while I did stomach crunches. The lines from Rumi above remind me of the algorithms on social media and such. They serve us all kinds of wines. Some are filled with urgency to act now! I've drank them. . . and regretted it. The hard part is to judge like a king. When you fall off the horse you get back on though. There's something reassuring to know they were dealing with similar wines 800 years ago. I hope you have a great day! Morning Fire 109 1..28.26 #gm #coffeechain #soul

"If one steps out on a starry night and observes one's inner state, one asks if one could hate or be overwhelmed by envy or resentment. ... Is it not true that no man or woman has ever committed a crime while in a state of wonder?" ~ Jacob Needleman Sharing campfires with friends and family under stars in the sky . Remembering it brings warmth. Being on the back of our land, on the other side of The Bean Brook, still close to home but far enough away to call it camping, are fond memories. Good morning. I'm in front of morning fire 108 reading quotes and remembering. I leave for the mail trail in 20 minutes. It's - 2 out there according to Google. It warmed up to few degrees above zero yesterday and snowed a little. Enough, I imagine, to make the roads slippery on the way to work. I am going to get back to this fire, finish it off, then head out the door. I hope you have a great day! 1.27.26 #gm #coffeechain #plebclhain

How do I prevent the "strings" issue when I post a YouTube link on Nostr? #asknostr

GM. "We lose our time because we lose our attention." - Jacob Needleman It's - 18 out there at sunrise. I looked at the forecast. They're saying it's supposed to hit 8 today. Anything without a minus in front it is a positive at this point. This is the 5th day of extreme cold. Yesterday Hayden (16 yrs. old) and I were out starting vehicles. Had to hook the battery charger up to two of them. There wasn't enough juice to turn them over. I have to keep 3 vehicles operable for the mail route. I never know what I will run into with high mileage vehicles while starting and stopping over 400 times a day on a route that's just over 100 miles. Speaking of the mail route. I had a customer bake me a fresh apple pie last week. I have been running boxes up the long driveway to her house for close to a week. I don't have to. Her and her husband got a spot out at the end of their driveway for me to put the packages, Yet, a few months back, when there were leaves on the trees, he said that he was still recovering from a stroke he had a few years prior. The cool thing about it is they're also my neighbors. I get to hear stories from people that live close to me. These people are only a couple miles away. The advantage, I think, of living on the mail route I deliver. It's time turn my attention to my family who is now awake. I hope you have a great day. Morning Fire 106 1.26.26 #gm #coffeechain #plebchain

If you were disappointed by bitcoin’s price performance in 2025, chances are it’s because you are only comparing the price at the very END of 2024 to the price in 2025, rather than comparing the AVERAGE price for the whole year for 2024 to 2025. Here are the average prices each year: 2023 = $28,852 2024 = $65,966 (UP 129%) 2025 = $101,656 (UP 54%) Maybe 54% isn’t 129%, but who complains about a 54% return on their investment? The AVERAGE price throughout the year tells you a lot more about “what bitcoin did” in that year than just comparing prices on December 31 or January 1 ~ Joel Bomgar #bitcoin

GM. 6AM. It's -22 on my thermometer. I went for a run in it last night. Noticed the waxing moon low in the southwestern sky. The wind blew strong out of the north. That was betweenr 7 and 8 AM. Afterwards I added oil to my mail jeep. In a matter of minutes the cold burned my gloveless hands. It's going to be an interesting day on the mail trail. It's supposed to stay way below zero today. Nothing I haven't been through before in my 17 years of mail delivery. But there's still the unknowns. . . . breakdowns and such. I hope you have a great day! Morning Fire 104 1.23.26 #gm #coffeechain #plebchain