From our family trip to Copper Falls near Mellen, WI last weekend.
#Wisconsin #countryliving
9/13/2026, 2 engagements
Becoming B
I am a husband, father, homeschooler, native plant nursery owner, rural route postal carrier, bitcoiner, and many other things.
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From the mail trail: "The sun is up, the sky is blue / It's beautiful, and so are you."
The Beatles. Lyrics from Dear Prudence (1968)
5.9.26
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5/9/2026, 1 engagement
"The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek." ~ Joseph Campbell
GM. I have off today. For 4 days. Back to the mail trail on Tuesday.
Before I go deep a few things. Yesterday someone left a Carl Sagan book about time in their mailbox. I can't remember the title. That morning I wrote about my interest in time. So if it was for me put it back in there on Tuesday, I will take a look at it. I wasn't sure.
I also found an I Phone laying at the end of POW Rd. Thursday afternoon.I took it back to the office. Our Postmaster charged it. We know whose it is. I was asking on the Springbrook Township page. A few people responded. We'll get it back to its owner.
I got stuck yesterday. Pulled out of a driveway in two wheel drive, took it a little wide, and the flat ditch full of snow sucked me in. When they plow they fill the ditches full of snow, so it looks like more road, Deceiving.
Four wheel drive didn't even get me out. Thankfully a carrier I work with lives out by me. She was on her way home. She swung by and tugged me out with her tow strap. It didn't take much. I had the front shoveled out with a small shovel I carry with me. It was like emptying a 5 gallon bucket full of sand with a tteaspoon. Snow sugary; shovel small. It was work.
Writing these every morning "is the cave I fear to enter" (see quote above).
Writing to my "tribe" on the Internet is one thing. But I know some of my neighbors read these. Some of them have told me so. And they are who they are.
I see a lot of them weekly when I deliver their Amazon packages. I worry what they'll think of me from what they've read. Then these lines by William Stafford come to me:
"If you don't know the kind of person I am and I don't know the kind of person you are a pattern that others made may prevail in the world and following the wrong god home we may miss our star."
I don't want to miss my star, and I don't want you to either. So I keep trying to be transparent.
I hope you have a great day.
Morning Fire 123 2.13.26
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