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Hi! I’m an #easttexas #rancher and #smallbusinessowner

I love animals, #farmlife #homesteading, and #sewing. We have a 5400 acre ranch and I run my own business out on it in a 4500 sq ft warehouse where we make sustainable women’s products.

New to this app! #firstpost

If it’s a link to a video, they all do that.

Gotta teach em young

#dogstr #petstr #bitcoin

The truth is — genuine connection is ease. It is peace. When you find it, you will know. You will feel seen, you will feel like you are being mirrored back to yourself, like you are discovering the shadow of your own heart in another human being.

Slowly, through loving the right people, you will come to realize that the human beings who are meant for you in this world will not exhaust you, or hollow you out, or leave you feeling like you are hard to love.

Slowly, you will learn how to lay down your arms. How to walk away from those who will only ever love you in halves. Slowly, you will learn that you cannot love someone into loving you, or being ready, if they are not. You cannot love someone into their potential. You cannot close their hands around your heart if they are not willing to hold it themselves.

You have to let them go.

You have to focus on the people in your life who bring you back home to yourself. You have to focus on standing up for that kind of connection, on honoring that calm, because it exists. It exists.

And I hope you learn to trust that, because when you come across it, when you ultimately experience it, it feels as if you are standing at a door you finally have the keys for. You enter it with ease. There is no fumbling through your jacket pocket trying to find the right way in.

There is no desperately reaching into your bag trying to uncover the point of access. You are no longer banging your fists against the door, asking to be invited in.

You walk through. Soundlessly. Softly. Relief washes over you. You take off your shoes. You hang your coat in the closet. You put on a pot of coffee.

You’re home.

Stablecoin issuer Tether has significantly expanded its Bitcoin holdings, acquiring 8,888 BTC worth around $600 million, blockchain data shows.

It's "American Easter" as the Greeks tend to call it (Orthodox Easter is May 5 this year), so it has me thinking about religion.

I grew up Greek Orthodox, and church was an integral part of my upbringing. Sunday school, Greek school after normal school, altar boy, etc. In my early 20s I wanted to be more religious, so I put a lot of effort into that. By my 30s, I came to the conclusion that I was ultimately just pretending. I really wasn't a believer and nothing would change that.

I don't make any decisions without a lot of deep thought and introspection. I spoke to many different people about my decision as well. Deciding to leave the church is almost like leaving your family-not an easy decision to make! Ultimately, I can't be that person who shows up every Sunday, and thoughtlessly goes through the motions just to be a part of a social club.

I've questioned this decision many times since, which is a normal process for me. I think it's healthy to constantly question who you are and what you are doing with your life.

Religious or not, the world would be a better place if folks followed the basic teachings of Jesus. Be a loving, caring, and honest person to yourself, your friends & family, and most importantly, to strangers you meet. I think that's worth believing in.

Help me! I need a clever name for this anchor! All ideas welcome. It’s a Fortress 37 (spade anchor). Or doesn’t have to be a people name.

Quick! Which movie is best for background when working on taxes?

A. The Fifth Element

B. Ex Machina

C. The Matrix

D. Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

E. 2001: A Space Odyssey

I’m satisfied with the umbrel home. Plug and play to setup.

I only use a few apps: full Bitcoin node, Electrs, mempool, Nostr relay, and Public Pool.

There’s a ton of other things you can do with it application wise but that’s what I picked it up for.