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I mean I looked it up just to answer the question. it seems like you’ve thought about this a lot more than me 🤣

I mean I looked it up just to answer the question. it seems like you’ve thought about this a lot more than me 🤣

probably would have been better to keep using Latin and, in doing so, not set the groundwork for local dialects and their cultural significance to go extinct/merge.

I’m an Italian disunification maximalist. AMA.

Leo, this is an amazing post you wrote. I love the richness of your descriptions and I love the freewheeling tone and memories you recall. I absolutely echo your sensibilities too… in finding a “wild tribe” here in the Bitcoin world that feels like home.

My own “time in the bush” was when I walked the Appalachian Trail many years ago. 2100 miles of walking a forest mountain path in the woods of Eastern USA. It was six months (a lot less that your ten years!) but it had a profound impression on me. I made good friends and felt as if I slipped out of “work time” and into Earth Time. The whole experience felt like one giant walking meditation (and it strengthened my sitting meditation practice too). It was living, rarified. Purposeful, but non-urgent. Joyful, but not without suffering. Communal, but sufficiently solitary.

I feel that this wooly Bitcoin gang has people and ethics in it that I resonate with and I feel the freedom in it to be who I am.

Thanks for your heartfelt post, amigo.

To pay for university and my travels, I spent ten years working in the bush. We were a roving band of gypsies. We would move camp every few weeks. A cook would make us meals from a kitchen trailer and we pulled a shower shack. Most would sleep in tents and the rich folk would have vans or truck campers.

There were usually about 60 people in camp. 60% male and 40% female. We would wake up at 5:30 to a truck horn, to frozen ground, and the smell of bacon.

The work attracted many different types of people, because you could make a lot of money in a short period of time and then head back to your “real” life. There were some like me who loved it so much that they extended the season and worked for 6 months.

There were musicians, photographers, ski bums, Canadian national ski racers, students, African migrants, travellers and even a few criminals. Evenings were spent around a fire dancing, singing, and exploring the world without any inhibitions or expectations. Days off were spent by a river, a dugout sauna on the beach, and naked frolics through the forests. Sometimes on beds of moss.

We were free. The locations of the places we went provided us with freedom, but it was also the people. It was the lack of apprehensions, expectations, and the willingness to coexist with people I would have never been exposed to otherwise.

I’ve never been able to recreate this feeling or experience. I’ve been searching for something like it for the past 15 years.

I’ve always lived my life in the “real” world and have always sought to feel and experience as much as I could.

Bitcoin brought me here, but it’s not why I stay. I stay because I’m back in the bush. I’m with my band of gypsies, around the campfire making music. I didn’t think I would find it again but here we are.

Thanks Cosmo and great to find you here on Nostr!

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