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The govt can't tax the work you perform directly for yourself.
The govt also can't tax the work that plants, worms, bacteria & animals perform for you. That's why they want you to buy from farmers that use heavy machinery & fancy fertilisers/chemicals.
Since discovering Bitcoin, I've also been rediscovering permaculture. For me, it's been about building resilience rather than becoming self sufficient.
Yesterday I finished planting 84 ice cream bean trees from seeds I collected from my mature tree. I have a long mound of dirt that I made with an excavator last year. I've no idea all the mistakes I've made yet but it's fun to play with nature & life again.
The mature flowering ice cream bean tree (Inga edulis):
https://i.nostr.build/6WlwUB9U0UnPbrII.jpg
Some of the 84 seedlings from the same tree:
https://i.nostr.build/nql6PHb3krc2aCWR.jpg
#permaculture #permies
Today I'm planting out root cuttings from a few comfrey plants that I dug up.
Each 1 inch section of root will get the chance to produce 1 comfrey plant. The 4 plants I dug up will reshoot from the buried root sections that I couldn't harvest.
As I was digging the comfrey up, I was reminded of how much the earth worms love hanging out in their roots.
The ice cream bean trees fix nitrogen from the air using bacteria while producing a lot of bio mass. Some will become mulch & some will be turned into charcoal. The comfrey breaks up the soil & locks nitrogen into it's leaves (more bio mass).
Working on your own stuff is nice but having nature work for you is even better.
https://i.nostr.build/FPrOFGrG844t3SLY.jpg
I bought the scrubby 2 acres like 14 years ago but lacked the time to really get things moving.
Permaculture is definitely a low time preference activity. You're always learning & adapting.
I bought Bitcoin to acquire pasture for cattle & now I'm learning to appreciate what I already have. I still intend to buy pasture but I can be learning & producing a lot from my plot of soil in the meantime.
🤙💚
The name is deceptive. The pods have a sweet edible fluff around the seeds. They're tasty & sweet but definitely have nothing on ice cream 😂
I doubt any of the 84 seedlings will ever reach maturity & produce pods. I'll be coppicing them regularly to keep them small. They're really just support plants for the fruit trees I'll be planting with them.
Much further south - in the sub tropics of Australia. They're native to South America. I've seen people growing them in Arizona but the frosts tend to knock them around a lot. They can bounce back in spring & grow a lot in the summer though.
While the white fluff around the seeds is a sweet edible treat, I don't rate them as a food source. I'm growing them as a support plant & bio mass accumulator.
I almost travelled to Riga this year. In the end I couldn't justify the expense & time away.
When it's the right time, everything will come together easily. It won't feel so much like you're forcing it & you'll see confirmations of it everywhere.
Maybe I'll see you in Riga next year. 🫂
So many layers upon layers of judgement in these notes.
It's easy to see the judgement but the non judgement is much quieter, it's silent with it's lack of engagement.
I don't feel the need to justify my expression, action or inaction to anyone.
Interacting with you is expansive for me. It's entirely self serving & I will quietly disconnect from you when it's no longer expansive for me. I feel like you're having a similar experience with The Nostr but that's clearly an assumption on my part.
I'm also not here to save anyone & I definitely don't want to be a leader. The reality I desire is one where we are each empowered by our own connection to Source rather than via a trusted 3rd party. To do this I have to allow people to take their own journey, however indirect I think their chosen path is. I believe the most direct path is to let go beliefs which fuel the fear (the lies) & fill our hearts with love (Truth).
My path feels to me like a paradox at times but I'm learning to be more comfortable with the paradoxes.
So how did the grocery store get your email address?
Do you think it was a targeted email based on your recent purchase or just a an email to all their customers?
Been playing with retirement for about 16 months now.
The fascinating thing I've realised is that the government can't tax the work you do for yourself & family.
- The food you grow
- The meals you cook
- The wood you chop
- The repairs & improvements to your house/vehicle
They can tax the things you buy but not the improvements you make with those things. It's a fraction of the cost you would incur if you outsourced the whole job.
It turns out that you need a small fraction of the "income" that you thought you needed when you had little time left for yourself.
You're probably not going to die or lose a heap of cash because you were careless with your nsec.
The greatest risk is your Nostr reputation & experience. Having said that I don't know what you use your Nostr DMs for.
Amber app is good for signing into app clients. Nos2x or Alby are good for signing into browser clients.
It's easy to be an arse & get muted.
It's much harder to be heard.
Show me the incentives & I'll show you the outcome.
It's less noisy & the people are generally more respectful here.
I didn't know that rule 😂
Then the Rook must turn into a Castle forcing the Black King to move to G7.
White Castle F1 moves up to F7 for the checkmate.
https://i.nostr.build/ttgCK2iQ2Qcd88Mb.jpg
When I was in kindergarten/prep I found 5 gumnuts walking to school with mum. I stuffed them into my pockets because I'd never seen them before & nobody seemed to own them.
https://i.nostr.build/tjOHMA9vNx6JMboj.jpg
I was so happy to have them. I really thought they were strange, wonderful things. I excitedly showed them off to the boys at school & ended up selling them all to Omar for 20¢ each.
My mum made me give the $1 coin back to Omar the next day. He got to keep the gumnuts & the $1.
Cheated out of my very first sale.
Look West near the horizon after sundown #AUSriches
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Look West near the horizon after sundown #AUSriches
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Increasing demand meets absolute scarcity.
It's a nice feeling not being stolen from while being proven right.
It's been a long wait, enjoy the process. 🤙💚
I think most humans have the feeling that something isn't right with the world. That we're progressively being pulled further into a dark place while being unable to precisely pinpoint the cause. Inflation is such a sneaky, insidious form of theft.
Congratulations on putting it together, nobody could have done this for you. Although you probably have feelings of being late, know that you're still very early.
The next few years down the Bitcoin rabbit hole will be exciting & transformative for you. The biggest gift I received from Bitcoin was letting go silly fears that I had carried for a long time.
Onward 🤙
It's not the solutions that are scary so much as the responsibility that those solutions require.
If I take responsibility for:
- my health
- my kids education
- my money & savings
- my food & water
- my electricity
Who will I blame when something goes wrong? Who will save me?
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