When I was little, we'd sometimes take the long drive to go visit my dad's parents.
My grandma had severe arthritis in her knees so she had a wheelchair with a joystick to get around.
Whenever we would arrive, she would be in the hallway, smiling brightly. She had really long white hair in a scrunchie, (most grandmas at the time had short hair)
She was soft spoken, and would bring us over to tall thin chest of drawers, and then cracked open one of the drawers, and pull out some money for my brother and I. We always got one each.
She passed away when I was 10, and when I turned 17, I went on a missions trip to Mongolia. I realized that I still had some of that cash I had recieved from her, and used it to pay for the trip.
Before she got married, my grandma had been an evangelist (they called it) as back in her time, only men could be preachers.
She had wanted a daughter, but was blessed with 3 sons, I'm sure she was rayer, as each of them had a son each. Then eventually I came around, a granddaughter.
I am the fulfillment of generational prayers, and by being a naturally frugal person, my grandmother was in part able to help send me to the nations, 7 years past her death.
I've often thought about the last part of this story, how she prayed me in and how I used her financial gifts, but today I was remembering more of the action of her giving. How fragile she looked, but how strong she was inside! How I forever will have the memory of pulling money out of that chest of drawers, as it was a bit unusual. Most people kept their money in a wallet. But it added to the scene.
Our grandkids won't know what it feels like to get paper money, as I'm sure everyone here would want to give their grandkids the best they have, which is bitcoin. But we can do so in a special way, in a special place. My grandma's fiat money helped pay for a fraction of my trip, what we give our grandkids might buy them an entire house when they're adults.
Bitcoin means generational wealth.
Kind and generous grandparents will be able to bless their descendants now more than ever before.
My lifestyle used to allow me to only need to work for half the year and then take the other half off, chilled at home and travelled. And I still had some money over when I started work again.
I've kept that low cost lifestyle after getting married, and it's allowed us to keep the majority of money in Bitcoin 😎
I do appreciate a bit of a dip in combination of having gotten more fiat.
Just as long a sit goes back up before I wanna buy anything 😎
I have met a lot of good leaders, some weren't necessarily better than me in an area I wanted to grow in. The point isn't to fine one person who is perfect, but to find the ones who excell in their area and learn those things from them, and then implement them in our own lives.
When I ment my husband, one of the main things that caused me to know he was right for me was then I realized that he was a good leader! He would be able to cover me no matter how far I rise and grow. He's not perfect, as no one is, but he is good and wants good, and is highly capable. There are plenty of areas where I can lean on him, where before meeting him most people offered the cliche answers when I was well past those.
A random cop walked over once, on duty but not for official reasons, and chatted out of curiosity of the solar panels on our van. By the end of it, he said, "I feel like I just talked with Elon Musk". Refering to having talked to someone who was of high intelligence and informative. We shared about bitcoin and solar power and how to become financially free by creating assets.
My husband is a natural leader, even if he doesn't lead an organization or has specific followers or mentees.
Haha sounds like a challenge that would have gone on YouTube back in the day. Instead of simply staying up or gaming or whatever they did for 24 hours, it's the, watch the clock tick for 24 hours challenge. It'd be huge 🤣
Time to start taking notes so you can see which ones you see in 2025 😎🤣
It wouldn't surprise me if part of why your coworkers complain about them is because they are disrespecting themselves when they decide to play friends and accept gifts.
The rich clients get away with it and will keep acting the way people allow them to act. If no one ever calls them on being rude, they may not even realize that they are being rude. (Or whatever type of asshole behavior they are exibiting)
It's one thing as a business to have a kind and friendly approach to customers, but there's a line of self respect that can easily be crossed.
It's okay to kindly confront customers behavior, you're actually showing them that you respect them if you do.
If I was the manager there, I'd probably have a conversation, something like,
"Hey, welcome in. Can I talk to you about something? We really appreciate your business, and hope we can keep bringing you nice wines for a long time to come. But, can you help me with something? Can you tune down the attitude when you're interacting with our staff? You're probably not meaning to do so, but it comes across quite rude at times."
Or something like that, depending on any exact behaviour I could point out.
Oh yes, very true! I was a little tired while writing it so I didn't catch it. Thank you for classifying that!!! 😅😬
Just to clarify something.
Christianity didn't create Christ. God created Christ and Christianity is supposed to be those who follow Him.
Don't look to the church to see is God is real, look to God directly.
The church is made up of broken people, and will never be able to accurately show the Father like Jesus did.
I know that God is real, so I'm not worried.
However, if I was on the fence, I'd still choose to follow God, because if there is nothing, there is nothing. But if there IS an afterlife, and I didn't follow Christ and was then doomed to eternity without Him, in the absence of good... well, I have no interest in ever experiencing that or ever even risk the potential of experiencing that! 😳
It would depend on if the first man is doing what fills him, or what he "should" do. If it is a should, then he is trapped by having disrespected himself. But if he is there because that's what he wanted out of life, he is the freest of man.
My husband is going for the first kind of free. He has learned that boundaries are good as long as not forced on other people.
Freedom doesn't mean without boundaries, it means to be free to choose respect of self and others.
(There's also other definitions I'm blanking a bit in the real one)
Is that so? I thought it was cause I was having a hard time finding people who posted interesting stuff regularly, so I scroll for the good stuff on the global feed. I'm basically a treasure hunter 😎
But if JD Vance is weird. I guess psychotic is another word that is now referring to highly intelligent, stable people who can handle themselves 🤣🤣🤣
(I also know how to turn potential insults to my favor 😜)
Personally my feed tend to get covered by Japanese around midnight. I tend to hang on the global feed.
I am a responsible adult. I know that I am responsible for my own time and that usually includes staying up past midnight watching a Korean show with my husband until we get too tired.
So, I'm usually awake, I just may not be on Nostr 🤫
When a baby is in the womb, it can't eat for itself, so the mom eats for two.
When the wife is pregnant, she can't have alcohol, so the husband drinks for two?
Logic for the win 🤣🤣🤣
Well, we sure won't be doing whatever is on the right picture above, that's for sure!!! 😳
I had to have a medical for immigration. I got the Hep A & B af 17 years old because I was foing to Mongolia. I'm glad it was still covered.
I did need to get a flu shot though, which is stupid.
She asked when my last one was, and I answered, "Never." She gave me a strange look.
Eh, yeah, my immune system takes care of any such stuff really well on its own, thank you very much!
I grew up in Sweden and if chickenpox was going around a kindergarten, the child would be told to stay home, but then other parents would come visit with their kids so they would get it and be done with it. No vaccine needed!
I might just take our kids to Sweden when we have them and go looking for a chickenpox outbreak to get that over with 🤣🤣🤣 natural immunity is way better than a vaccinated one anyways!
Eh, was she planning on sharing needles between your child and someone else?!?!?!
What the F!? The vaccine babies in the belly!?!?!?!
They don't even believe they're human yet!
I heard something that if it's a hospital birth they put some anti STD gue on new born baby's eyes, because some women keep sleeping around and might have some STD. They don't differentiate if someone is happily married and have never even had an STD.
Isn't there enough things new parents need to go through to also keep track of their healthcare professionals so they don't do something stupid to their kids?!?!
Ugh, I hope RFK gets this sorted out fast!!!!
At first read I thought you were avoiding water 😳 then my brain clicked into action and I now know it means, only water 😅
I've done a 3 day fast before, and found that by the 3rd day it was actually a lot easier, as my belly got too weak to scream for food any longer. But until that time it was hard.
I believe in you! You can do it!! 👊