Bayman11771 on Nostr: With my daughter soon heading to college, there has been a lot of packing and ...

With my daughter soon heading to college, there has been a lot of packing and organizing in my house. Among the things we got around to opening was some old storage that hadn’t been opened for many years. Mixed in with a lot of stuff we probably never needed to save were some nuggets from travels past.

I found these East German coins I collected on a trip to the DDR in 1988. I was a student in West Germany and remember calling my parents to tell them I was going with friends to East Germany – back in a week. Obviously no cell phones, no email. Times have changed.


I also found what I thought was a lost journal I kept during one of my deployments in the “forever wars.” I kept it as something my then infant daughter could have, should I not make it back. It’s mostly me writing to her, but consistent through it is a deep skepticism about why were there and likelihood of success.

These rediscoveries are timely, with discussions about 4th turnings and global realignment dominating the Zeitgeist. They recall two periods that figure prominently in the lifetime of a Gen Xer and show how fast the forces of change can upend your reality. These experiences have made me a skeptic by nature, but skeptics can still have faith.

To all you building freedom tech, thank you for what you do. Keep it up – this is your time to shine. And for the rest of us, if I can quote we all know who – stay humble and stack sats. They will serve you well.