8:35 AM. Later than usual again. It's my second day off from mail delivery. 15 below zero. The fire in front of me burns bright and hot. Looking forward to another day staying close to home with the family.
Tomorrow I will travel every road in my community. As much as I miss being home with my family on the land I feel lucky to deliver mail in my community. I am serving my community. In the end, that's what we're here for, isn't it? To serve each other and a higher power.
Last night, around 11, Hayden {15yrs. old} and I drove over to my mom's to fill her outdoor wood boiler. It's about 4 miles over there. He drove. The sky was lit by the waning moon hanging in the eastern sky. The large fields they irrigate in the summer glowed as we drove past them on County E. I was refreshed and wide awake. There are times when we drive over there in the evening that I'll sleep. Work wipes me out.
On the way home I was going to listen to a Bitcoin update. But the algorithm threw up a Zen video on the dying process. So I asked Hayden if he'd mind listening. Not at all, he said. In my fantasies of fatherhood prior to it I never imagined driving home listening to monk talk about watching his 108 year old teacher die in front of him. Again, I sometimes wonder what the kid thinks of his old man. I hope he turns out ok. He's not being raised in a conventional setting after all.
I started giving the kids a weekly allowance in Bitcoin. I call it Bitcoin Sunday. We sit down, I get my phone out, bring up the exchange, and buy it. They write down in a ledger how much is being purchased for them. We add up the entries and see if it's worth more or less than the dollars they stuck into it. Lately it's been down.
My neighbor texted out of the blue the other day. She was checking in to see how we were handling the extreme cold and wanted to know how our other neighbor was doing. He had a bad stroke last July and is not able to come home yet. So I gave her an update.
Well, that's it for this morning's musing. Just living life. I hope you have a great day!
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