Some of you know that I'm a Father of 7 boys.  I take that role very seriously and think daily how to do a better job to raise healthy, strong young men with good character.

We are at war with the death culture of the world.  Their most successful project is the destruction of the family.  They use the financial systems and feminist ideals to pull parents out of homes to provide duel incomes so they can teach your children to end their bloodline and destroy their culture.

Homeschool your children.  You are their best teacher.  Spend time with your family and imprint your heritage, love, and all of your traditions.

"The little world of childhood with its familiar surroundings is a model of the greater world. The more intensively the family has stamped its character upon the child, the more it will tend to feel and see its earlier miniature world again in the bigger world of adult life.". - Carl Jung-

Looking around at the state of man will black pill most people.  But through this decline I have seen things that give me hope.  In many places I see the few, the men of valor. 

It's safe to say that in my lifetime, our civilization has beached itself.  People live today in a state of suicide by slowly killing themselves and the future. 

The future is in the hands of the few men of valor out there.  They are measured by their strength to face this world on their feet. 

"The entire Western world — not just America — has been spiritually dead since the Second World War. Economic man has swarmed over its corpse, fattening himself on its material remains and multiplying mightily. Physical collapse may not yet be imminent, but the decadence is profound and irreversible. Valor, sorely needed to see us through the coming night and hold us to a worthy purpose until the new dawn, is a memory growing fainter by the decade."

-Adams-

The weather is starting to get to get to summer Temps here. The bees will beard up on the outside of the hive entrance and use their wings to direct cool air into the hive. They need to keep the inside of the hive between 34.5 and 35.5 degrees Celsius 
(approximately 94-96 degrees Fahrenheit). I'll soon be putting the queen excluder between the top honey super to make sure we get a whole 10 frames of honey this year.

We've had our bat house going on 4 years.  We've counted as many as 67 bat's coming out each night.

When I leave at dark for work and come home at dark again I'm greeted by the bats going home for the morning and coming out for the night.  The time goes so quickly.  Many husbands and father's I've spoken to have the same story of missing things and losing time.

Marcus Aurelius certainly understood.  We must “keep in mind how fast things pass by and are gone. Those that are now, and those to come.  The events of the world good and bad, beautiful or tragic or terrifying flow past us quickly. None of them are stable, each of them disappears with due time into the rush of the water, and is never seen again."

Lost time working is something that we accept to a degree, but lost time when you're home is most tragic.  Treasure your friends and family, don't just shut everyone out after your work day.  The time after work is so much more valuable because it's the little time that you can make the most impact.

We've talked before about how the world is set up to distract you, but why is that so important to their success?

On a farm, a well fed heard will passively go about their lives grazing.  To dumb down the general population takes more than the distraction of food and the illusion of safety.  People are best distracted by entertainment (good or bad) .  In the age of constant screen time access, fighting age males spend most of their time looking down, instead of being aware of their surroundings. 

If you find yourself looking at your phone constantly at work, missing out on family and friends, or stepping outside at Church to take an "important" call... It's gone too far.

Take regular tech breaks and reconnect with real life.  You'll find that turning off the 24 hour news cycle and getting back to basics will reduce stress and give you more time to accomplish the things that are most important in your daily life.

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Today a very good friend and one of the strongest guys I know is in icu after a head on collision coming home from a power lifting meet.  I ask for your Prayers and support for his family.  Please share and lift up my friend.

Thank you all who pitched in to help my friend and his family. His surgery went well and they should be trying to get him awake today. These injuries are going to be a great challenge, and recovery is going to be very long but this guy will fight to get back in the gym.

I'm amazed at the generosity amongst the people in our circles. Please continue to pray for a good recovery so we can get this beast back on the bench press where he belongs.

Life is short and uncertain.  Because of that, many people live in fear to the point they never accomplish anything great.  This fear breeds mediocrity and halts all growth.  All of the great people that I've met that do amazing things reject the cult of fear. 

Live every day in activity.  Don't fear the world or death or hardships.  Smile at the problems you come across and treasure the people in your life.  Odds are you inspire many around you.  Your time is so valuable, treat it accordingly.

"Putting things off is the biggest waste of life: it snatches away each day as it comes, and denies us the present by promising the future. The greatest obstacle to living is expectancy, which hangs upon tomorrow, and loses today. You are arranging what lies in Fortune's control, and abandoning what lies in yours. What are you looking at? To what goal are you straining? The whole future lies in uncertainty: live immediately." -Seneca-

Our Culture is layered with tales of Good vs Evil.  The brave knight stands in front of the dark cave, calls the monster out by name and kills it.  There is great power in knowing the enemy, if you can expose the evil you can cut through the darkness with the light of the truth. 

The recent backlash from
the general public against the evils that major corporations are trying to normalize proves the power of exposing the evil in this world.  If you can get enough people to identify evil for what it is, it can be driven back,... It can be destroyed.

We've seen the evils of this world, and have been speaking out for a long time.  Finally we have everyone's attention.  Let's make Weimerica pride months and appeasing 10% of the population a distant memory.

As with anything you do in life, today could be the last day you interact with one or more of your friends and family.  That day will come.

What a shame it would be to ruin that last interaction by not giving that person your full attention and yet even when we’re with our most loved ones we insist on doing other things.

Make your time with others count. Seek always to - be here, now.-  Ask questions. Listen to the answers. Be present.

Too often our work life, our worries, and other problems can put us into a fog.  All the distractions of the world, or self inflicted distractions, drinking, smoking, drugs, etc take away the real you.  You don't want the last image people have of you to be physically there, but mentally and emotionally dead.

Having a happy life has little to do with possessions, but instead by being fulfilled.  We are most fulfilled when we live according to the laws of the natural world that God perfectly created for us.

With having a large family, people expect the parents to be overly stressed and miserable with the perceived chaos of it all.  Looking at what we can and can't control, letting children make and learn from mistakes, and having a good routine overcomes it all.  There are so many little moments that make you smile.

The biggest fulfillment of my life is watching my wife smiling at babies, seeing my sons grow and learn to challenge themselves, and living a simple life according to the laws of the natural world.

“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.” -  Marcus Aurelius.

A man almost always has the God created and God given desire to be great and flourish.  But he faces a great deal of anguish when he discovers that the road to flourishing seems closed off to him by his vices.

We find ourselves through work and struggle, creativity to build things, fixing things, coaching others, failing, and accomplishing.  Work requires discipline and when its applied to suppressing our vices, that energy is redirected into greatness.

Be honest with yourself and look at the path you've set upon.  The biggest obstacles we face are the ones we've created.

Don't stand in your way.

Being a Father requires an investment into the future, building the kind of world around your homes and communities that you want to raise your children in.  More times than not though, the present rules the day.  The larger the family, the more involved in the moment we must be.  All of the teaching and coaching moments, the "hey Dad watch me!", and especially the "Dad can you fix this?". 

There are different stages of life a man goes through.  In his youth he looks to the future, as a young Father he lives in the present, and in his age he remembers all the fond memories of the little voices and the stampede of feet rushing to greet him.  Treasure the present now so you don't miss out on memories to smile at in the future.

Happy Father's Day to my American followers tomorrow!

In the past I've talked about many things that I believe will help build up a man.  Preparation, Motivation, Discipline, Strength Training, Family, Etc.   All of those things are great attributes to strive for, but too often we get dulled down in complacency, ruts, blocks, and obstacles.  I've talked about living Immediately to a point but I'd like to expand on that thought. 

Some of the most successful men I've had the opportunity to work around all have a very important character trait, one that I struggle with myself.  A sense of urgency.  Looking past the temporary motivation, the cultivated discipline, and all the deep thought we put into our daily lives...we lack a sense of urgency. 

Throughout history, the most decisive and great things that have been done, were done with a sense of urgency.  It has been said necessity is the root of invention.  Now more than ever it is necessary that we find a sense of urgency in all that we do in our daily lives. 

It is urgent that you take care of yourself both spiritually and physically.  It is urgent that you lead your family and friends.  It is urgent that we put aside all of the worthless things of this world and prepare to charge ahead.  Raise your swords and shields and lead your men.  There is no time to be complacent.

The things that we battle with in our lives are better off delt with now instead of putting them off.  Help yourself and your family now.  Take ownership of the world around you.  If you don't, the evils of this world will dig in and be even harder to drive away.  The perpetual tug of war is going on whether you acknowledged it or not.  If you aren't pulling, the world always is.

Looking through the internet, anyone can find a plethora of articles about the decline in food and agriculture literacy.  What is more surprising to me is the amount of people that say they don't care where their food comes from or what its made of.  Mindless consumerism is a big part of modern culture, but signs are pointing towards a shift. 

Everyone can see that the global economy is in shambles.  Food prices are soaring higher than ever, and major food corporations are shrinking their products to maintain prices to delay the inevitable.  All of a sudden the hyper processed foods that used to be cheap easy slop are getting sidelined by real food, but with traditional farm land being gobbled up by billionaires and foreign investors I see a unique opportunity for change at the home level.

Sustainable homesteads offer not only a healthier and happier change from modernity on the individual level, but they can bring communities back together that have been separated by disgusting strip malls and convenience shopping.

Look around your area and find an existing small farm and take on an internship.  Farming conditions differ from region to region so it's important to draw knowledge from your area.  Together we can farm the future.

Imagine this: The dollar and the stock market crashes over night following years of out of control government spending. The value of your home has plummeted and your work has cut wages and issued layoffs. Lines have formed outside of banks, mass riots and looting are going on everywhere. Are you resilient enough to bounce back?

During the Great Depression, the farmers who were able to keep their farms faired the best. Take this excerpt for example. "We always had enough to eat because Mom and Dad raised a large garden and Mom canned a lot. We butchered a cow and a couple of hogs every year, and had chickens for meat and eggs. My sister and I wore patched clothes to school, but we were much better off than many of our fellow students. I guess we kids didn’t really feel poor at all. Most everyone else around us was just as bad off, or worse." - Sam Moore

Preparation for the hard times ahead will make or break your family. Prepare ahead, become resilient.

Earth, land, soil, terra, boden.  Throughout history people have sought after, and fought over good land.  Having good soil and a place to raise livestock insured a people's existence and the future of their children.

In modern times the majority of commercial farm land has been poisoned for decades with chemical fertilizers and pesticides.  The soil that was once full of life has been reduced to a dead growing medium.

Keeping protein on the table starts from the ground up, and everything on my farm has a purpose.  The garden and fields feed our family and our livestock.  All of the manure from the rabbits, goats, and chickens goes back into the garden, and any household food waste goes back to the livestock.

A healthy living soil ensures healthy produce, and healthy proteins are always available for generations to come.  Too many people sold away everything their ancestors built for the future.  It's up to us to leave something worthwhile behind for our children, and teach them the mistakes that squandered away our birthright.

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