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Urban Homesteader, Edible Landscaper Here for the Great Awakening

Thank you for listening to my feedback! I appreciate your notes even if I do feel differently about having kids.

I don’t think parenting is for everyone, but for those who feel called they should be the best they possibly can be.

I want my kids to know all of the things that it took me so long to figure out on my own whether it’s life skills or the ways of the world. Watching the process of them learning and figuring things out, and the people they are becoming brings me great joy

Have a good evening

Replying to Not my name

Having grown up very poor, it has become obvious to me over time that the perspective poverty offers relative to my now very comfortable life has been a necessary condition for my overall happiness.

Had I grown up middle or upper class, I would have faced many of the same challenges (school, figuring out jobs, relationships, etc) but would have struggled only to regain the security that I knew as a child, not capture said security for the first time.

Poverty also means that you have to become pretty creative to still find joy in life (you can’t just buy an ersatz version), and this was truly useful for me. It was how I found nature, exercise, creativity/art, good relationships, accomplishment, efficiency, etc. All the actual sources of joy that life has to offer.

Also, since humans do far better with improving circumstances than deteriorating ones, poverty has been a distinct advantage for me over many middle class people I have known. My life has been a steady state of leveling up instead of just a slow grind or decline towards death.

I am becoming more aware that people who have only known wealth and security simply don’t know how to be happy, so they do the things society tells them will bring happiness (like having kids, believing in God, consuming garbage products and experiences, practicing brand and political tribalism, etc).

They then get trapped by the system that knows exactly what it’s doing. The kids they bring into the world keep these people distracted and obedient, as do their political and religious leanings, and the debts they incur to afford all the other garbage they bring into their lives. They are creatively barren, and most can’t even start to think for themselves, let alone begin to examine their own behavior so that they may one day escape the prisons they live in.

It’s sad to watch really, and there’s really nothing that can be done about it.

Good luck out there.

#grownostr

#thinkdangerously

Idk about that. I’ve become more locked in to what’s going on in the world for the sake of my kids. Things that I used to go along with or ignore, now I refuse to comply since I can see the slippery slope of where such tyrannical policies lead (for their sake).

I appreciate you thinking dangerously, but beware of black and white thinking. There are many shades of grey, and you can’t lump all people into certain categories

Everyone has their own path to walk in life and in finding contentment. The poor and the rich both have to overcome ingrained mentalities to find pleasure in the little things and working towards achieving worthwhile goals. Just my 2 sats

Saturday meme dump.

Some good ones going around this week. 13 in all

#memes #memestr #grownostr

Probably just making sure there are no lost sheep to herd out of there

Took a few days but finally got these Junipers and Yaupons planted, mulched, irrigated and protected from deer.

In the one day between planting and fencing a deer managed to break one of the junipers in half 🤦‍♂️

#nostrees #trees #grownostr

Oh man that’s gold!

The fact that he didn’t have to reuse headlines in his hook says it all. Then the scroll- chefs kiss

All I hear in my head when I see the word chopper: “get to the choppa” (in a thick Austrian accent)

Definitely get off the big tech data harvesting apps.

As for above phone, I’m thinking it will be the next phone for me whenever this iPhone dies.

Will report back whenever that happens, pls do the same if you ever get one!

Haha I’ll tell her, I think she’ll be flattered 😂

My wife is starting a few little hustles and the latest is soap making.

This first batch came out nicely- just tallow, lye, coconut oil, olive oil, essential oil and some rose petals on top

#soapstr #soapmaking #grownostr

Haha but there can never be too much butter!

I’m curious to see how price is impacted by ETF shorting and other shenanigans whenever those go through. Hopefully it can’t be as manipulated as other markets like commodities since there are so many hodlers to buffer that bs

7 memes for your Saturday night, procured from various corners of the internets

#memestr #memes #grownostr