GN Nostr!
Yep! We are in the US. Honestly, physical distance. We used the Bitcoin POW model. No one would have any interest is making us move because it would be too hard to enforce. Not to mention we could pack up and be gone in 3 weeks. Everything we have is portable, including the decks [except for the front]. A zoning official or cop literally could not get to where we are. They would have to traverse some very tricky terrain 😆. If they were capable of doing it, they aren't the type of people to make us move. They are competent. We are remote enough that there aren't any neighbors to complain about us. Simple.
Merry Christmas , Nostr! 🌲☃️
One of the most influential books I have ever read was Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse.
"We look like the DEI Weasleys." 😆
-my wife
We finally bit the bullet and bought some wool mattresses. They are incredible. Now my house is wool, my cloths are wool, and my bed is wool. Maybe I should get into wool sales...
I think a _majority_ of oppressive patterns can be chaulked up to unnatural incentive structures, not macro-conspiratorial overlords.
Birthday gifts this year:
Old-school brass handle knife
Wool coat
Logger boots
A good robe [very important for yurt life]
Got the rims done for a little landing and deck we are putting on the front of the yurt after church today.
My primary legacy won't be as a writer, homesteader, or bitcoiner. This is my legacy. They raise me up. They are my very heart. Spending my life to love and protect them is such a privilege. I feel like the richest man in the world...
Confidence without competence is just pride. Don't teach your kids to be confident, make them skilled.
1) We have a barebones curriculum and spend most of the rest of their education teaching them sustainable food, housing, budgeting and faith.
2) They are ravenous readers because we will buy them books about any subject they are interested in.
3) We also have a heavy emphasis on history, identifying scams, and negotiating.
It's hard to tell from the perspective but that chair is like 3' away from the table! Haha. My wife found them in the middle of nowhere Alabama for like $100 bucks. They are amazing.
My wife is a gifted homemaker. I don't mean this figuratively. She is world-class. We could literally live in a shoe box, and she could make it feel like a Hobbit hole. One of the many reasons I proposed 4 months after meeting her. 13 years later...
Almost done with the shower stall, just soaking up our little mountain while I rested, we've had back to back birthday parties all month, and watching the Hobbit with kids tonight.
Thanks for sharing this. I'm an avid reader and this is going onto my list. I'm finding it difficult to find interesting things to read these days. While the context of your post around nationalism, I think there is also a broader principle guiding this thinking, namely portability. In a world where geography is the primary underpinning of control, build a life and identity that can move with you. I feel like so much conflict in our age is born from peoples slavish devotion to geography which has been bound to this idea of nationalism. I have BTC, npub, and even my off-grid homestead has been designed in such a way that we can move it on a matter of weeks. Every civilization is destined to fall.
Just walked through this over the last year. Really savoring life now and it changes everything.
Definitely not what I'm seeing. I used to have no real life friends that had stacks. Now I would say a third of my friends, despite their level of conviction are stacking.
I think about this often. People always lose me with marriage advice at the "therefore". People will make a true statement and say "therefore" x, as of the true statement naturally implies the "ought". It's maddening and I notice it all the time...
Slow mornings are for the soul.
Felt this in my soul
Anyone else wear sunglasses when driving at night? Headlights are getting out of control.
The Yoke Paradox: We don't get a sense of freedom from doing what we want. This is bondage to one's own desires. Freedom comes from the constraint of doing what you are made for.