Diary Entry, # 249 "February 11th" (How God spoke from Feb. 4 - 11)

[00:00:00] Hello Diary listeners! It is, well it feels like Monday because I haven't slept yet and it is 1220am. But I'm still going so I guess technically it's Tuesday. Happy Tuesday. It is the 11th, Tuesday the 11th. So that's going to be the title of this diary entry, February 11th, 2025, The Year of Our Lord.

[00:00:34] Yeah, I've got a lot guys. Like I really hope I can consolidate all of it. I might even break this one up because I don't know how long I got in me. I've been doing a lot all day. The day has really escaped me. It's been pretty full.

[00:00:52] For a Monday that I didn't have anything really scheduled, and all I really had scheduled or in mind was to record a podcast, it's incredible to me that my day has been so full. And I'm just now recording. With every intention to record like all day. Let's see.

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[00:01:29] I'd like to start out with a Bible verse that I got throughout the week. It's really cool. It's Proverbs 11, 14. Chapter 11, 14. And let me just get it for you so I can read it for you guys. It's pretty cool.

[00:01:58] So in the King James Version, it's where no counsel is the people fall. But in the multitude of counselors, there is safety. And I was actually able to use this today because a friend of mine and my neighbor actually, is putting on a joy workshop.

[00:02:24] It's basically a space where she's going to be sharing, I think, strategies for cultivating more joy. And I think doing a, you know, kind of a roundtable and share with the people who attend on this, on this date, and they're gonna, you know, discuss strategies. And it's all remote. So you can do it from your home, which is pretty cool.

[00:02:54] It's happening February 20. It's happening February 20. At I believe it was at 7am. Let me verify that for you guys really quickly. But we went back and forth. And I actually asked Wendy to be on the podcast, which was pretty cool. We've got a date set for the day.

[00:03:42] There was like, you know, I'm going to be on the podcast.

[00:03:55] base with all of them and hopefully get some podcast interviews from them. And just today, like I like I'm communicating, I, I was able to get a interview set up with Wendy. And, and I also have one with my friend Ken Madden coming up. Now I've already had Ken on the show, but we're going to touch base. It should be a pretty cool time. But I'm gonna, I'm gonna leave it as a cliffhanger for y'all.

[00:04:23] So the workshop that Wendy is putting on is called instant joy. It's going to start on Thursday, February 20 at 7pm Eastern Time. And it's going to run for an hour and 15 minutes, it does cost a little bit of money. So it's, you know, it's one of those things that she,

[00:04:45] she does to make a little bit of money, but also spread joy. So it's about $10. And some odd cents, I guess the cents is like a fee. But it's a $10 fee. Not much, just a little workshop, give you an edge.

[00:05:03] Wendy's had a multitude of different jobs where she's managed operations. And she's really good at consolidating and organizing. She was really kind to me when I was looking into getting married, I was feeling kind of daunted. And as my neighbor, she called me and she was like, Oh my god, I love doing stuff like this. If you need any help.

[00:05:30] Just just just contact me. My daughter just got married. She she wants she wanted to keep it small too. And that idea vacillated and it became a little bit bigger than what we had thought, but still small and just throw by throw. I was able to keep up with her and I really enjoyed it. So if you have any issues, just just hit me up. I never ended up

[00:05:57] joining her in that or asking for any help or advice, but I really appreciated her offer. And if there's one thing I can say, it's that Wendy is always unbelievably hopeful and optimistic, positive, joyous, she's always talking about making the most of the day and putting out great affirmations on her web, you know, her websites and her posts are wonderful.

[00:06:25] She's also a new grandmother. So that's really exciting for her. So as diary listeners, if you can send prayers to Wendy. But when I posted about her workshop, I was able to use this post of Proverbs 1114. And I was able to use this post of Proverbs 1114 because I felt like it was very apropos to the happenings.

[00:06:51] This week has been pretty awesome, pretty full of God's insertion, as always. One thing I wanted to lead with that that actually started my day and I know I'm kind of working out of order because usually I start from last week and and kind of push throughout the week and tell you about the week.

[00:07:16] I, I, I had a awesome opener to today that I wanted to share with you all because I guess it's just kind of like a little thing that that if you decide not to listen past this point, at least you can have something to ponder, maybe even write into the show and, you know, tell me your thoughts. If you like things like this and you want to offer a perspective as to maybe what it means.

[00:07:43] I had a really great dream right at the end of my dream cycle before I woke up this morning and it was, I was in, it was either a guest spot or an appointment. I was in some kind of waiting area. I don't, I don't know where. And I was really like anxious.

[00:08:09] I was thinking about a whole bunch of stuff and just worrying, uh, like kind of to the point of paralysis and just getting upset.

[00:08:20] And I, I guess it was, it was very obvious, uh, to other people, but in an attempt to calm myself down, I sat kind of like over in this distant area where there was like a ledge and it just, it was kind of like a, a bar stool kind of situation.

[00:08:41] And I picked up a magazine and I was just sitting there, you know, quietly to myself and flipping through a magazine, attempting to, I guess, distract myself from what I was thinking. And it wasn't working because I was flipping through the magazine, but it, but it wasn't working. And, um, I was still worrying and there was, there was stools and seats next to me.

[00:09:09] So I, I kind of, from my periphery, noticed that a man sat next to me and I didn't think much of it until he leaned in and he said to me, Hey, it, it, it seems very obvious that you're upset. You know, I, I want you to know that it's, it's going to be okay. There's nothing really to be upset about.

[00:09:33] And then he points to this notice that's tacked up to like a glass wall. It's like a, it's like a window that looks out into the street or out, out of the waiting area. And I don't see beyond the notice, which is this little postcard.

[00:09:54] And before I get to the postcard, I, I want to focus on the man for just a second because my friend Tara Bell and I have discussed, um, visions of spiritual leaders or people in our lives that maybe take on more of a Christ-like type role. And he's like, I don't know if this is a Christian. And he's like, I don't know if this is a Christian. Um, so I, I don't know if this was Christ. He did.

[00:10:23] He didn't look like Christ. He might've been an angel. He might've, I don't know. I don't know who he was, but in the dream, what I can recall is he was very average. He was a white man. He was tall and he was dressed very average, like khakis and like either polo shirt or like a button down shirt. That was pretty basic. And he had short, dark hair, a longer face.

[00:10:52] I don't really like, I don't really remember his face past his nose, but I remember his eyes being brown and like deep. Um, so I, I only focus on that because, um, Tara and I kind of talk about the different ways that, that we visualize messengers.

[00:11:18] And I just, I, I feel like this person, whoever he was or entity was trying to give me hope and direction and calm me. And what he pointed to is this notice that was on this postcard kind of size thing.

[00:11:36] It was a white postcard with dark purple writing on it that I couldn't read from where I was sitting and a shape of a heart, like an outline of a heart in purple, dark purple and a QR code. Now, I don't know what this notice was. I, I have no idea, but I felt instantly better.

[00:12:03] Like it was like a, it was like a sign of good things to come. And I remember feeling really happy. And then after that, as soon as I noticed the notice and like went, went to like, look back at the, the gentleman who was gone.

[00:12:20] And I felt this sense of reconciliation that kind of, it made me think of my former apprentice, uh, Andrea, who I'm going to refer to as Andrea, because when I taught her, uh, that's how she identified. And since that was my experience with her, however dead it might be to her experience now, it was what I experienced then.

[00:12:47] And so I'm going, I'm going to settle in that space. Um, just, and also pronouns are really interesting thing, but when you're talking about somebody that other people don't know,

[00:13:06] it's difficult for that to translate into an audio, an audible, um, account when you're using pronouns that are non-binary because the real singular non-binary would be it, but that's too dehumanizing. And I just, I really don't like the device of using they, them because it's more than one person. And I'm only talking about one person.

[00:13:35] So I'm going to default to what my experience was with all that said, I felt like this, I felt in the dream, a sense of reconciliation. I don't know. I, I don't know. I know that I, I know I don't hold anything. I don't hold any hate in my heart towards Andrea, uh, towards my former apprentice and now a full fledged tattoo artist. But we haven't had reconciliation. So I don't know.

[00:14:05] I don't, I don't know. It just, it just calmed me. And I remember in my dream thinking, remember this. And so when I woke up this morning, it was like probably a half hour past that dream. I just instantly grabbed a journal that was available to me and, and wrote it down, wrote down the, the dream.

[00:14:26] And the interesting thing in, in all of this too, is the journal that I wrote it in, I had started at almost 11 years ago to the date. I started it February 7th, 2014. And it was, I started it right before I broke up with one of the longest relationships of my life.

[00:14:56] It was eight years, uh, with my ex, Adam. And we hadn't yet at Tattooed Heart Studios. We hadn't yet moved from Glen Burnie to Hanover, Maryland, uh, into the warehouse space where you find it today. Um, so, so. So, so much had happened since that time.

[00:15:22] And as I was recording my dream, I wanted to kind of get a timeline of where I was when I started, uh, the journal. So I kind of dipped back and I found in there a list of things I wanted. Um, and I'm, there's a few things I haven't done.

[00:15:45] Um, but I would say that for the most part, I've been very true to the things that I wanted. And one of the things that really stood out was that I only wanted friends and people in my life who truly could be as impassioned as I was.

[00:16:14] And, um, but just only people who accelerated, uh, all of it for each other. And I just think about 2020 and everything that happened and how so much of my life shifted, how many people left, how many people remained behind that were always there.

[00:16:37] And then how many new people came into my life that weren't really there before. Or people who were there that became more important after. It's pretty awesome to look back upon. And I find it wild that, you know, I had this dream that prompted me to like write in a dream journal that I hadn't touched for like 11 years.

[00:17:08] And again, one's 11, 11 is a huge thing. I've consecutive numbers. I keep seeing. So that's powerful. It's weird. I don't know, guys. I don't know what it means, but it was pretty wild. And as far as the Bible verse, the Proverbs verse that was given to me throughout the week. And it was after quite, quite a week.

[00:17:35] Um, the overarching theme was everything that this administration is doing to cut funding. And the, the big buzz around is Doge pro Doge or anti Doge. And the biggest thing that I've seen online has been, um, well, there's two things.

[00:18:03] There's fear of women, women's rights being taken away. And then, and that's not by Doge. That's just, I think, by the Trump administration. And then fear of a dismantling of DEI, which there has been such a common post out, which

[00:18:30] is basically that we're, that we're supposed to, if we're, we're not for DEI, that we have to, you know, broadcast and say it, say it because, you know, if we don't say diversity, equity, and inclusion, then it, it neuters our, our want to dismantle it somehow.

[00:18:54] Um, and, and the whole post is daring people to outwardly deny it and want to take, you know, oppose it and say it and then specifically announce what we're against, which I did, uh, for at least one friend.

[00:19:15] I kinda, I kinda got nasty with her because one, I'm, I'm a bit frustrated. I'm a bit frustrated with, uh, uh, this, all of this, uh, I'm only human. Uh, my patience is running thin, but, but also guys, I, I need, uh, I need you to follow

[00:19:39] me a little bit when it comes down to my tactics for the past, like if, if we were to analyze the past 11 years, this, this is how it went. I was extremely tolerant. I was extremely, uh, agreeable to the point of almost being a doormat at times.

[00:20:06] And I just stuck to what I wanted and what I cared about. And that was it. And if it didn't, if it didn't apply to me at all, I just didn't, I didn't think about it now. I think I was very short sighted and what applied to me because what ended up happening in 2020 proved to me that there was a lot of things that applied to me that I wasn't

[00:20:34] aware of made a difference in my life and really, um, affected how I could live. And I really had taken those things for granted thinking that they were just, you know, that we all kind of understood it because I believed people when they said that they were equally tolerant and that they were doing what I was doing. And so I figured if everybody's doing what I'm doing and we're all tolerant, then we can

[00:21:00] tolerate the fact that people are different and they're doing different things and we can leave each other alone and we can live and let live and everything is great. But that wasn't the case. And so then it went from tolerance to being like, oh, okay. So there really isn't any benefit to staying neutral. Um, these things affect me regardless of how live and let live intolerant I end up being

[00:21:27] and I am and how much I stick to what matters to me only. It still affects me. And I always knew that before, like there was, there was things that I, you know, I paid into, uh, this, this federal government, the state government, for example, that allocated my tax dollars along with a lot of people who pay taxes, citizens that pay taxes of this

[00:21:52] country, uh, to, to, to, to efforts that I, I don't get to benefit from, but that I was like, you know, I'm living my life. I'm living my dream. I'm able to make it work. You know, like, why wouldn't I, why wouldn't I want to put in for this or that? Uh, but 2020 really clarified it, you know, like it showed me a lot about a lot of different

[00:22:22] organizations, initiatives, bureaucracies, federal agencies, uh, state agencies, just government in general that I vehemently disagreed with how they were doing things and how they were treating people who were, you know, the blood, sweat, and tears of these machines, uh, forced vaccinations, forced masking, uh, layoffs.

[00:22:51] Um, you know, I got wrongfully terminated in my view. Uh, it's a, it's a fire at will state in Maryland. So I didn't argue anything, but it was crappy. It was really crappy. I was let go. And, uh, I've, I've said it in earlier episodes. If you want, you can always go back into the annals of 2020 and check it out and you can hear what happened, uh, and you can visit the other people and you can gather their insights.

[00:23:21] I'm sure they have a version of the story that they'll share. Um, but I know I've already shared it, so I'll spare you. But yeah, I, I realized that it just, I actually did care about certain things and I definitely did have opinions about a lot of things that I was adamant about. And more than having them, I realized it wasn't enough to have them because if I didn't put

[00:23:48] them into play and I didn't stand behind them in any kind of way, one, the, the people who equally cared as I did, wouldn't trust me or put faith in me when push come to shove. And the people who didn't agree with me ultimately were never going to be tolerant enough or objective enough to listen in any kind of way when fear came into the, the paradigm and they were going

[00:24:14] to completely ostracize me, label me at times call me dangerous. And I mean, I just, just the level of crap that happened to, um, people who saw things the way I did during 2020. Uh, when, when we were seeing how much there was a massive, massive, uh, power grab and

[00:24:43] redistribution of wealth, how it was definitely a run on small businesses and the little guy, how, how certain, certain groups of people were allowed to riot and create havoc. And then yet others were seen as domestic terrorists or, um, you know, insurrectionists and how some,

[00:25:11] some people like pro-lifers were gone after, uh, using things like the face act, just so much lawfare to like smack down political opposition. And it was, it was, it was that kind of landscape. And so now that Trump's in office, first of all, I, I have based on the fact that I went through

[00:25:38] all that, a lot of compassion for people who are now feeling, feeling it from their end of the spectrum. They're deeply afraid. A lot of people are losing their jobs. A lot of quote unquote security that people found is now not feeling secure anymore. And so I get it. Like I, I felt it. I experienced it. That was my, that was 2020. And that was my reality.

[00:26:06] And, um, you know, my heart broke. So I get what people are going through right now rather acutely. And I have a lot of compassion. Um, but at the same time, I, I don't forget what happened.

[00:26:31] I don't forget how I was treated and I don't forget who was behind that treatment as well. And I haven't forgotten things like, you know, kids being masked and, you know, having to stay masked beyond their teachers and their teachers who are older than them, you know, getting to breathe free while all these children are having to mask up during school hours.

[00:27:00] And just, just, just, you know, like the amount of people who lost jobs, who were publicly defamed, you know, like there was a lot of that guys. And, you know, everybody, everybody did what they had to do and I got it, but I haven't forgotten it.

[00:27:22] And so now that the tides really have turned in some ways, as much compassion as I have for how I felt and recognition of all of that, I feel a sense of vindication because a lot of what, a lot of what I saw has now shown itself. First of all, I'm not a conspiracy theorist. It's 100% the truth.

[00:27:53] COVID was a massive power grab. It was also created in the U.S. It was also funded by the U.S. Even if it didn't originate here, it was, it was promoted in a Wuhan lab, but I think it was actually started here and then moved there. There's just lots of reports on a daily basis coming out now via DOGE.

[00:28:19] And I am thrilled for this audit of our federal government because if you don't realize it and you're listening to it, our federal government has failed audits over and over again. Like almost every single agency has failed their audits.

[00:28:37] And if you were even able to access the information altogether, there has been such a unbelievable just challenge to Elon Musk and the DOGE team to go in and find these issues and these, you know, over expenditures and audit.

[00:29:01] And it really is shining a light on, I think, a lot of people, a lot of legacy politicians, definitely media bias and all of this. And it's just wild. So getting back to diversity, equity, inclusion. I oppose it.

[00:29:24] I oppose diversity, equity, inclusion because it is a smokescreen for communism. It is a thing that allows for over expenditure of taxpayer funds. It does not reward a merit-based system.

[00:29:48] So ultimately it robs people who are really impassioned to do the best job of any kind of hope that that's going to matter. And it, and more, it just, it lies about love and acceptance. It isn't about that because it's not what it creates. So let me break it down.

[00:30:16] Any kind of government, whatever, agency, name, label, bill, almost invariably, what it's called is, it's pretty much a certainty that what it will produce is the opposite of what it's called. And by all accounts, that's what I've seen of diversity, equity, and inclusion.

[00:30:46] If I were to isolate a word in there that I dislike the most, it would be equity. Because equity speaks about equality of outcome. Now, aside from the fact that that is just communism, just communism is what it is.

[00:31:04] Um, I do not believe in that because what ends up happening is just every, every, all the standards go down so that everybody can be on the same standard. That, that's just how it would go. And you're not going to get these people off their money. They have been laundering it forever.

[00:31:28] They have been the elite class of leaders, power grab people, and, and they love their position. They love telling other people what to do. They love it. They love being the little pencil pushers that allocate, blah, blah, blah, that take our money, legal plunder, and tell us what we should be doing with it. They love that position.

[00:31:52] So in, in, in, in just that realm, we wouldn't, we wouldn't have an equality of outcome because their, their position would be one to order ours. And let me tell you, they would be padding their position because they'd be like, Oh, we need extra padding because we're the ones, you know, working really hard to make sure what all you would be doing, which is communism.

[00:32:19] Throughout all time and space, however many times has been done. I think it's like 30 times in history. It just always, whenever they try this like social or socialism experiment, it always goes to communism. Now I'm fine with diversity. I like diversity. I think it's fun. I've always been a person that, that likes diversity. I keep diverse perspectives. I like diverse people.

[00:32:49] I'm attracted to people who look different than me. Uh, just, just the gauntlet diversity is fun. Um, I, I, I think that within doing a job though, and selling a product, however,

[00:33:09] diversity might not be the thing that is the most potent, uh, quality to either the job at hand or the thing that you're selling. So let me explain.

[00:33:29] When you make diversity, equity inclusion, a, a must, which our government has, you get things like the Bud Light debacle where they felt the need to elicit a transgender female to be their spokesperson.

[00:33:54] To a product and company whose major, major base was like bros. Like bros and like, I hate to say rednecks, but like, you know, rednecks, rednecks, rednecks of all kinds.

[00:34:20] There's all different kinds of, of nationality rednecks, but rednecks, you know, like, like people who like to drink, who don't really want to get drunk without drinking a lot. Like they just, they like, they like a Bud Light. They like something that is light. They can drink a lot of, and they can kind of keep a buzz going longterm.

[00:34:41] So college boys, you know, like people who go to bonfires and, you know, like us, like we sit by the river, we have a bonfire, like Bud Light, you know, like it's a thing. Um, but it's not really a space where transgender, like, like I can see transgender people selling makeup. That makes sense.

[00:35:09] Uh, I, I can see them in a lot of spaces, honestly, but not Bud Light. Uh, so here's the thing doesn't help sell the product and it betrays the market base. So, you know, for, for a beer that's kind of marketed and has been marketed this one way for a long time, and it's a winning formula and it's not dropping.

[00:35:33] And it's, it adds diversity to the multitudes of different alcoholic products that could be out there that have a much, much different market. Like you, you, you could even have a transgender beer. Like, I don't know what it is, but like, make it, make it and make it awesome and make it something fun.

[00:36:02] But don't, don't wreck, you know, if it ain't broke, don't fix it, you know, kind of thing. And so there was push.

[00:36:11] I forget what it was called, but it was basically a, um, like a social credit score almost for all these companies that they, they, they, I believe they would get like penalized if they didn't fall into adopting more and more DEI in their companies. And, you know, just some spaces that's not appropriate.

[00:36:39] Uh, one being the military, you know, that's a really big space where I do feel like certain positions in the military, certain positions in life, you can only offer up so much diversity and, and inclusion. When the bottom line is being ordered strong and, and, and might possibly be about going to war.

[00:37:07] And I don't really think the people of this current generation understand things like war and how necessary it is to really, really play that well.

[00:37:26] And we have had just a stream of like awful plays when it comes down to strategy and, and influence across the globe. There's a, there's a lot of things coming out about what we've supported and what we've done and what we've enacted. And it's, it's not good. It's really not good.

[00:37:51] And, um, so that's why I'm not about diversity, equity, and inclusion. And more than that, I'm just, I'm hearing about all this money that we're sending to other countries so they can enforce it too. And these are places where, like, it's just, I don't know.

[00:38:21] I, I, I, I don't know. Uh, I haven't seen the actual directives or the actual things, but what I can tell you is, is that America, as far as I can tell, with trillions of dollars in our federal deficit, our debt, we are overextended.

[00:38:40] So, we need to get strong first before we can, you know, either A, inspire anyone else or B, help anyone else. We have enough going on here. California, I might even still be burning. I'm not even sure, but like has had massively devastating fires.

[00:39:02] We have, you know, all of the, uh, Southern states that have been decimated by Helene. And then you have, you know, Ohio, which had this massive hit with commuter trains. I think God they're cleaning up the water now there. And things are really changing overnight in, uh, in Ohio.

[00:39:25] But like the money has been sorely allocated. And, and what I've been trying so badly with friends, I've lost friends. Like certain friends of mine have just completely stopped talking to me. Um, which is fine, which is fine. Um, I don't like how they did it because they just ghosted me and they like would block comments from their posts and stuff because they didn't like what I was saying.

[00:39:54] And instead of having an actual conversation, having an actual conversation about it, they, um, they would just unfriend me. Uh, but this one, this one, uh, friend of mine, I got really nasty with in my comments. I, I opposed, uh, DEI said the words had no problems.

[00:40:20] And I think the thing that really bothered me about it was there was an extra, extra little comment on it. That was like, stick out your chest while you say it. And so I wrote, you know, my chest was out and my head was high, but do me a favor as you're spreading these kind of posts around, just hug your knees a little tighter.

[00:40:43] And, and that'll make the angle, uh, of, of entry for the government to rail you in the bum that much easier. And of course my friend didn't like it. Uh, she was very upset. She was like, you didn't have to do that. You didn't have, that was uncalled for. But the thing of it was, is that it was called for, you know, these are these copy paste posts that everybody shares at nauseam.

[00:41:10] They're very, very, uh, attacking of people. They're calling out quote unquote friends on Facebook. And they're saying, if you, if you don't like DEI, then basically you're a dick and you should be forced to say the words so that you can openly oppose it. Okay, fine. I will. You should know. You should know what you are.

[00:41:37] If you adamantly, after all of what's being discovered, still align with these things and don't realize what it has been. Like, whatever you think it should be, this is what it has been. And we're seeing what it has been. And I, I don't, I don't know what your benefits have been from this, but I can tell you who it hurts. And I have explained that to several people. It hurts small business.

[00:42:07] When this becomes a corporate standard, it, it, it just levels small business. It makes it something that there cannot be an equal playing field. And the little guy cannot compete with, with the big monolithic corporation that is a able to afford to make all of these changes that would, you know, cater to diversity, equity, inclusion.

[00:42:33] And B, they, they're able to support lobbying groups to keep feeding this, this projection, this initiative, so that politicians put it at the forefront of their political campaigns and their directives and their pressure on everything else. And what it ends up doing is robbing, just, just stifling competition.

[00:43:01] It just levels competition so that nobody can actually get in the game. And now that's a very, I mean, you want to talk about fascist thing. That's a very fascist thing to do because it's all about control. It's all about power and it's all about rigging the game from the inside and at the highest levels. And it only hurts the middle guy or the small guy.

[00:43:26] And the small guy then has all of these regulations, all of this red tape, all of these, these different things that they have to, you know, accommodate whenever they hire somebody. And it just makes it impossible for them to hire people and grow a company and not impossible, but more challenging.

[00:43:50] And so, you know, for me, I really, since I grew up in a small business, I, I have seen what it is that a small business can provide and do. And we had all manner of people throughout there. You know, it was, I will admit, because it was in Carroll County, it was predominantly a white salon that I worked in.

[00:44:14] But we had people of many different races come in and teach courses on how to do different kinds of hair treatments, extensions, braiding, perms, relaxing treatments, all these different things. We, we went and educated ourselves. If we didn't have exposure to it, we were constantly re-educating and expanding our, our knowledge.

[00:44:39] That was a huge push in my dad's business because he wanted a really good, well-run salon full of practitioners who had an abundance of knowledge. And going to seminars, going to classes and all that stuff was pretty much an ethic of our, our, our salon. Not to mention everybody there had access to a IRA, a matching IRA, healthcare.

[00:45:07] We even brought in an Affleck, you know, representative so people could have accident insurance should they want. Accident insurance that would pay out to you if, say, you regularly got doctor visits, you know, like they would give you a rebate on your doctor visits if you regularly went. Um, so many things, my, my parents ran apprenticeship programs for both, um, master barber and senior cosmetologist.

[00:45:35] My parents went out to vocational schools and helped, helped their, their actual educational programs. They worked with the board. They confronted the board. They spent thousands of dollars going after the board of cosmetology and, and hair. I mean, my, my family was a staple in the community. We sponsored little league teams. Um, we, we did runs for charities.

[00:46:03] There was, um, we collected cans for, for food drives. We collected toys for, you know, toys for tots. We decorated for holidays, all kinds of holidays. It was Hanukkah and Christmas. There was all of these things. We had regular clients who were in wheelchairs that we'd have to make accommodations for to cut their hair. All done.

[00:46:30] It wasn't perfect, but it all worked and we kept it going and people were happy. And so I know it's possible to be done if people just really try to see each other. And see, my problem is, is that when I was debating all of these things online, I got unfriended. Uh, the, the conversation was shut down.

[00:46:57] So many people cast judgment on me, laughed at me. Um, one guy said, I've dealt with people like you my whole life. People like me. I kept asking him, like, what do you mean people like me? You don't even know me. I wouldn't, I wouldn't go so far as to know you. You know, these are just people commenting on my, you know, my comments on friends posts. Like, I don't know these people.

[00:47:24] They're, they're either friends of my friends or whatever. Or random people who want to argue me, but I kept it classy and on point. These people just kind of came in and attacked and like them wanted to, to share all of this, like history with me and past traumas and things like that. And I'm like, listen, man, like there's no reason why the past has to be the future. It can inform the future and we can grow from it and we can learn from it.

[00:47:51] And that's not a damnation, but I will say that if you keep this victim attitude, it probably will be your future because you're going to incite it into reality. But this does not have to be the future. And I was getting more and more upset with these people, but as I was analyzing and I was like,

[00:48:12] you know, I'm doing nothing but trying to show people that these initiatives do not have to warrant the taking of so much of our tax dollars and then reallocating it to all these initiatives so that we can cripple small business and be told what to do and how to love each other. We naturally have the capacity to do that. People do.

[00:48:39] And really, when it comes down to it and when it comes to God, we especially do. 100%. You know, I've seen it all the time in the studio space. Like this week, I actually tattooed a long-term client of mine, Lainey. She's awesome. But she works for the government.

[00:49:08] And, you know, she loves her job, finally. And she is a little scared that she's going to lose her job. And she was calm about it, you know, like, what can you do? But, you know, they'll probably move her to another position, which she'd have to get used to. And that's always upsetting. But because she likes her job and she's good at it and she works really hard.

[00:49:37] But it's a lot of, you know, humanitarian aid. And my advice to her, and I hope she thinks on it, really, is to fully jump into humanitarian aid. Should anything happen to her government position, there's so many organizations that are actually doing humanitarian aid.

[00:50:03] And this is a person who knows how to defend herself, is very capable of doing that and has a heart bigger than I don't even know what. And she always cares about doing the right thing and protecting the innocent and the, you know, the smaller guy or the less fortunate.

[00:50:33] And, you know, she's getting a very powerful piece that's all about protest. I'm just, I'm kind of overwhelmed by the beauty of her. And, you know, as far as I can tell, she's the kind of person that just has a heart for that kind of work, regardless of where she finds herself. It's the same thing with teachers, educators.

[00:50:58] I don't think the dismantling of the board of education is going to keep you from being an educator. I don't think you need it. You are an educator. You will educate. Just like, I don't, all I need is to understand that we all bleed red. We're all going to die.

[00:51:19] And that when it, when push comes to shove, we're all human and we're all sinners and we all fall short of God's grace. And yet we get it if we, if we dare to believe. And at the end of the day, it really is that. There's no greater equality than that. And it's equality under the law.

[00:51:46] Now, I understand that throughout history, that has been a hard thing to find. There's a lot of variables to that. There's the laws themselves. And then there's the actual enforcement. We have to hold each other accountable. We have to be accountable ourselves.

[00:52:09] And, um, and we have to know the authority that we have so that we don't give it away. Because I don't need somebody to tell me to be kind. I don't need somebody to, to point out that somebody just because they're a different color, race, or creed, or ideology of me is human. I know they're human.

[00:52:38] I love them. You know, I have compassion for them. It doesn't mean that we have to like each other. It doesn't mean that, that we're going to get along in every instance. And it doesn't mean that we can actually work together. It just means that I see their humanity. I don't want anything awful to happen to them.

[00:52:57] Though at some points, you know, if, if they're not willing to follow paths that are for their own betterment, bad things will happen to them. So I can't like, and that's where accountability comes in. So, but I've been wrestling with this all week.

[00:53:18] And by the end of the week, and kind of like going back and forth with, you know, people, tattooing, and, you know, having these conversations online, because I think it's important. And, um, I, I saw a friend's post and it was like, wow, man, you're either pro-doge or anti-doge. And if you're, you know, on whatever side you're on, it's, it's pretty, it's pretty distinct.

[00:53:46] And, you know, I just feel like we've been this way this whole time, you know, like since 2020, it's really, really divided, but it's been getting more and more divided. And it's crazy because I feel like it, it's really started happening ever since we had a black president. And he's not even like fully black. He's, he's mixed Obama.

[00:54:11] So like, but I feel like these, this derision really happened starting then. And it's gotten worse ever since. And the more we push for these kinds of initiatives, the more divided we get. And so whenever I'm looking at things and I'm thinking about no matter what the intention is, you have to look at what it actually produces. What is the goal?

[00:54:40] So I don't, I don't dislike the people who are about diversity, equity, inclusion. I really think that they're good hearted people. I think they recognize a lot of things. I know that there has been a lot of fights that we fought to instill certain things, particularly, you know, for women. Speaking of women's rights, you know, we were the last to get the vote.

[00:55:07] It wasn't until like the late 1960s that we were even able to have a bank account. So I, I understand the concept of equality under the law. I understand that. I understand what society permits and what it doesn't and how it shapes people.

[00:55:29] And what it, you know, what kind of opportunity or lack thereof it can, it can produce. I'm not devoid of that. But I don't think we're going to go backwards. I think we're going to go forward. And as far as Trump is concerned, I feel like he has a mandate.

[00:55:57] He's going to give the people who put him in power what they asked for. Now, the people who put him in power, just to be clear, is about 30% of the registered voters in this country. Now to give you a perspective about... I'm sorry, I just wanted to make sure I was recording. My mic keeps going off.

[00:56:26] To give you a perspective about... Oh God, what was my thought? The registered voter population, this wasn't... This was a three-party race and everybody thinks, you know, you have your independence and then you have Trump and then you have, you know, the Republicans and the Democrats. But really, it was the Republicans, Democrats and the apathetic.

[00:56:53] Because 38% of registered voters did not vote. So that's 38% of people who could vote who just decided not to. And there's a lot of reasons for them not voting. I think some of it was people who were very betrayed by their party, the Democratic Party, and opted out.

[00:57:15] There's a lot of people who stood behind voting for RFK, even though he wasn't running anymore. And, you know, but he was still listed on the ballot. They were still going to put their vote in for him. There was a lot of things that happened that made sure that Trump was put in office. But he was not put in office by the majority of the registered voters.

[00:57:40] He was put in office by the majority of the votes that ultimately gave it to the Republican candidate. Because there were so little votes on the other end. So that being said, what I am hopeful for is that there will be a shakeup in this country.

[00:58:07] I hope that the things that are happening and how quickly they're happening will jar the apathetic into action and will help them isolate and consolidate their caring, their ideas, and will make them better. Because I think there's a lot of people who are just asleep at the wheel.

[00:58:33] And when it comes to our government and our people, it's supposed to be a constitutional republic where we, the people, are the ones who elect and hold our representatives who we elect accountable to serve our interests. And that is not what has been happening. It has been a complete inversion. So what I'm praying is that we will have a restoration of that.

[00:59:03] And we, the people, will have more of the authority of how to run our lives instead of all of this government pressure and invasion into our spaces that they have no business being in at all. If you don't think that I'm speaking correctly, please, please, please take a course on the Constitution.

[00:59:33] You will find that if we actually were constitutional and of the law as it's outlined, it would mean more freedom than I think most of the people of this country would even know what to do with. They just would, they'd be like, what? What?

[00:59:53] And I think it would blow your mind how much we have run off course as far as what our law, the law of our land really dictates is the way things are supposed to be organized. And then even go further as to the foundation and crafting of that law. Definitely check out the preamble, the Declaration of Independence is a beautiful document.

[01:00:20] But, you know, within this DEI argument, I felt the need to recite the Declaration of Independence because, you know, of course I get everybody who thinks there's some kind of expert and they're trying to, you know, tell you about DEI and who it helps and all this stuff. As if I don't know, as if I couldn't possibly understand.

[01:00:46] And it's all these different, very nuanced situations and all these nuanced people that, you know, it's just, it's not necessary when you have something such a beautiful document that is the foundation of our country. And that says, says it so beautifully. So let me, I'm just going to read a little, a little bit of it for you. And this is what I quoted.

[01:01:15] We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal, that they are empowered by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.

[01:01:37] That whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the rights of the people to alter or abolish it and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form as to them shall seem most likely to affect their safety and happiness.

[01:02:00] Prudence indeed will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light or transient causes. And accordingly, all experience have shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer while evils are sufferable than to write themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

[01:02:21] But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evidences, a design to reduce them under absolute deputism, it is their right, it is their duty to throw off such government and to provide new guards for their future security.

[01:02:48] So this, this is the foundation of our country. This is when the shit really hit the fan. This, by the way, happened over a tax on tea to which the kind of taxes that we pay now, our forefathers, I mean, they're rolling in their graves over.

[01:03:13] And let me tell you, every single man that signed their names to the Declaration of Independence sacrificed everything. Some of them lost everything they owned, everyone they loved, their marriages, their health, their lives sometimes. This was not a frivolous thing to commit yourself to and to put yourself to.

[01:03:42] This was huge. And it was the formulation of this country. Now, whether you, you want to criticize these men and be like, oh, well, they weren't speaking about women and they weren't speaking about black people and they weren't speaking. These people were very much so driven by God.

[01:04:05] God was influencing this decision because they had such tyrannical government from a king that was overseas that was putting such unbelievable restraints on them to live happily and well. And I really challenge you to read the Declaration of Independence because it cites grievances.

[01:04:30] It cites, I think it's like 27 grievances that they had and they're all atrocious. And if you can imagine trying to operate, you know, civil order and just live happily under these circumstances, I would think that you'd find it impossible. And then so it's not like this hasn't been done before. And by the way, and Doge is not even a new concept.

[01:05:00] Go back to the Bill Clinton era. All of this happened during Bill Clinton. He he's the one who set the playbook for massive firings in the federal government. And he's actually the formulation of the deep state of all these bureaucracies where it took it out of the electorate's hands and put it in unelected bureaucratic hands to decide and restructure power so that it took it away from the people and made it all about government oversight.

[01:05:28] Al Gore helped him look it up. I'm not lying. He wrote the playbook. Trump is trying to give it back to the people. Now, whatever you might think about him, if nothing else, he's trying to serve the people who got him in office, which I think is a winning plan because he may, you know, he was put in there. He made promises. He's fulfilling his promises. And from what I understand from him and his administration, they are not slowing down.

[01:05:58] So get strap in. But the reason why I ended up getting Proverbs 1114 was that on this post about Doge, whether you're pro or con. I just ended up writing that I'm really done. You know, like I say that, but I'm probably not.

[01:06:23] I have an abundance of patience and want to reach people and to communicate and to bridge the gap, cross the divide. I really want healing. I really want us to come together. I do want everybody to rise together as much as possible and for all of us to reach our betterment. I do. So I'm going to put myself to that no matter what. But at this particular point, I was like, you know, I'm just so exhausted.

[01:06:52] You know, like I feel as though it's casting Pro before swine. I feel like, you know, that they're not going to listen. You know, they don't listen. And I really feel like a lot of these people just need to be shook.

[01:07:10] I feel like it's it's it's just not even for me to to try to do it more than a little bit. You know, I can express myself. I can speak my mind. But at the end of the day, I'm giving it to God because it's going to need God.

[01:07:32] It's going to need God to shake people into their betterment, to push them to touch to touch their lives and their hearts and to move them and to help them see. Help them see that they're getting in their own way. A lot of the times I know I've been guilty of that in my life many times. In fact, the the big adage of this podcast is the only difference between you and who you aspire to be is time and how much you want to get out of your own way.

[01:08:02] So, you know, like that that is a that is a thing for a lot of people. And you got to let go and you got to let God. And one of I wish I let me see if I can find him. But that's when just somebody commented and gave me Proverbs 1114. And he loved my comments. And it was just very kind and very sweet.

[01:08:30] And I really appreciated that that recognition of what I had said and just that gift of giving me Proverbs. It was really, really lovely. But yeah, it's a lot of conversations about DEI, DOGE, of course.

[01:08:55] And as far as women's rights, I had a friend reach out. And I say friend loosely because he we don't see each other like ever, ever. I'm going to park that for a second. So this is the post. I'm going to read it for you about DOGE. If you're concerned about Elon Musk stealing your grandmother's Social Security check, you're going to get a real kick out of what Congress has been doing.

[01:09:27] Oh, no, this isn't this isn't the one. My goodness. All right. Wrong one. Wrong one. Right person. He's the one who posted it. But wrong post. You got to hear his post. All right. So this is the post. Pardon. The discussion over DOGE is a great example of the cataclysmic divide in camps.

[01:09:54] One side is seeing the receipts connecting money through formula shell companies, funneling money to media companies, to things underlying items like support to large scale deception, LSD, and demanding accountability. And the other side is being told no without USAID, who will give Africa children vaccines? So I wrote, I'm tired of wrestling with others regarding this.

[01:10:24] I'm thrilled and looking to keep an eye out for things locally. I don't like Maryland is accessible and have, and we have much work to do here. I'm giving the rest to God. And then we went back and forth a little bit. My friend, you know, just thinks people angry. I don't think they're angry. I think, um, I told him, I think they're terrified. I think they continually put faith in the wrong places.

[01:10:52] And so when the glass house that they've been hurling insults and other things from finally gets smashed, they can't cope because they thought they purchased unbreakable glass. And as it turns out, there's no such thing. This is why I'm giving it to God. Um, people have been very blind and need to be awakened. I pray for the well-meaning people that they learn and start investing in places that will serve them when life gets tough. I pray they learn where to place their faith.

[01:11:22] I can't do anything more than pray. God help us all. So that's what I wrote. And then, you know, I went back and forth a little bit with, um, my friend. And at the end of it, this man named David, which is so cool. Uh, I won't give his last name. I'm not going to have any names here about any of the people I'm talking to online. Cause I, I want their autonomy to be kept, you know, sacred. If you want to, if you want to follow me and be my friend and, you know,

[01:11:52] see what I write, then you can do that. Um, but he gave me Proverbs 11, 14. And, um, I found it a very, very good and insightful quote. And, uh, did I bring up, I didn't bring up my Bible, but I'm going to, I'm going to see about Proverbs 11, just so that I can, I can read a little bit of that before we conclude. But getting back to women's rights,

[01:12:20] I did have a friend reach out and he had sent me a video, uh, of a girl, um, basically saying how she felt like we were losing women's rights. And he said it was a good explanation of what he sees. And, it was, it was kind of regarding us, uh, conversation that we had had a few weeks prior, but I don't talk to this guy ever. And,

[01:12:50] you know, it, it occurred to me when he started talking to me about this and sending me this video and all this stuff that I was just, at first I wanted to like tell him my thoughts. And then I thought to myself, what is it? Why does he want to know what I have to think? You know, what? Cause this is not a person that talks to me regularly or hangs out with me or sees me.

[01:13:20] I've only done one tattoo on him in my life. It's not like we've had a heavy impact on each other. I mean, I'm only a woman. I'm not all women. So what is, what does he care what my, my views are? So that's what I asked him. I said, what do you care what my views are? I, I'm just one person. And I, and he had said, I mean, all of this was on messenger.

[01:13:49] So it was, uh, it was private. And, um, I'm sorry. I'm looking up Proverbs 11. Um, and, you know, he was like, I don't want to start anything. And, and I was like, okay, well,

[01:14:14] I personally want to start something because if you don't want to start anything, then let's not start anything. Basically. I, I want to know why you care so much about what I care about and what I see, because if, if you're really resigned to thinking that the way you think is the correct way, then we're just, then this is a waste of time. And within a sharing perspectives, what's going to happen? Are we going to get closer? Are we going to be better friends? Like what,

[01:14:45] if you're not trying to start anything, then what are we doing? You know, I find this person to be a very cerebral person who likes, who likes debate and who likes discussion. And, and I can appreciate all those things, but it kind of goes back to my want list that I, that I started at the top of this podcast telling you guys about, you know, I only want people in my life that share and match my intensity and who can really

[01:15:12] work with me and who can bring about great things. So if that can't happen, that's fine. But I really don't want to spend too much time on you. And it was funny because after him and I kind of disconnected, I mean, we're going to circle back to the whole thing. He apparently is out of country right now. Um, so we'll circle, circle back to that. I, I told him, you know, I, I would really like a phone call if I'm going to tell you my thoughts about

[01:15:41] all this, because there was too many points to cover. Um, and he said he would make time. So that's great. I mean, we'll see what happens, but, um, who knows, right? Who knows? Uh, it could be really cool. I don't know. But yeah, at the same time that he reached out like a longterm friend that I absolutely adore. Her name's April and her and her husband, you know, I've hung out with them. I've gone to their home. We've shared dinners together.

[01:16:11] I've tattooed both of them, uh, quite a bit. And just since day one, you know, like our souls really found peace and rest and happiness in each other. And so she sent me this beautiful, beautiful video about, you know, friendship and how friends are towards each other and how they see each other and how it doesn't matter how much time or space or whatever is between them. It's like, it's like it never stopped. And I just, I,

[01:16:40] I felt like that was such a gift and it primed my week and it really gave me perspective for the rest of the week about the people that I met and how I interacted with them and what I said and how I said it. And just what I was willing to let go of if need be. And I, I just think that that's really important to be willing to let go of certain relationships. If it just does not serve you anymore. And I've,

[01:17:10] you know, honestly, ever since 2020, it's been a very potent theme. So I finally got to, uh, Proverbs 11, which I'm going to, I'll just read, I'll read down to 14. So that way we at least have some contacts and preamble to even the, the scripture that I got. So this is 11 one, a false balance is abomination to the Lord,

[01:17:40] but a just weight is his delight. When pride cometh, then cometh shame. But with the lowly is wisdom. The integrity of the upright shall guide them, but the perverseness of transgressors shall destroy them. Riches profit not the day of wrath, but righteousness delivereth from death.

[01:18:08] The righteousness of the perfect shall direct his way, but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness. The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them, but transgressors shall be taken in their own naughtiness, which I just think naughtiness is such a funny word, but it says naughtiness. Uh, when a wicked man dieth, uh,

[01:18:35] his expectation shall perish and the hope of unjust men perisheth. The righteous is delivereth out of trouble and the wicked cometh in his stead and hypocrite with his mouth destroyeth his neighbor, but through knowledge shall be just, shall the just be delivered. When it goeth well with the righteous, the city rejoice,

[01:19:05] rejoices, rejoiceth. And when the wicked perish, there is shouting by the blessing of the upright, the city is exalted, but it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked. He that is void of wisdom despises his neighbor, but a man of understanding holdeth his peace. A tale bearer, a tale bearer, reveleth secrets,

[01:19:34] but he that is of faithful spirit concealeth the matter. Where no counsel is the people fall, but in the multitude of counselors, there is safety. And that's 14. Uh, yeah. So it's a, I love Proverbs that I honestly, that's my favorite book of the Bible because it's all about wisdom and cultivating wise action, how to be a good person.

[01:20:02] But I think it was particularly directed about how to be an upright man and spiritual leader. And, and I think that's why I love it. But, um, you know, like our constitution who is speaking to the founders and, and the men of that society and the men that wrote the foundations of our society and who, you know,

[01:20:32] sacrificed along with their entire families, everything to get us to this place. I, I'm grateful. And I, I see, I see all of these, uh, these things is worth studying and worth looking at. Um, so yeah, that's been my week. Uh, like I said, today was very, very busy. Um, tomorrow I, uh,

[01:21:02] we'll be posting this and I have my next Excel class, which God bless my teacher, man. Um, that was a, that was a wild, that was a wild first class. Um, I don't mean wild and like wild. It was just, it was just, that man has the patience of a saint, my, my instructor. So God bless him.

[01:21:32] His name is Mr. Sink, Simcon, Simco, Simco, Mr. Simco. and, he was lovely. And he had, he had some great jokes and quips for us to kind of keep it interesting, but it was a zoom class on Excel. So I could only be so entertaining, but just the, just the technical part of dealing with zoom and education. I, the man has the patience of a saint. I, I just got to say that. Like I, I,

[01:22:01] I admire, I admire his, his willingness to push through all of the iniquity of the situation. But, uh, I look, I look forward to tomorrow and, um, and getting my Excel, um, experience and knowledge. I, uh, uh, there's, there's not much else to report except for, um,

[01:22:32] homeschooling is, uh, something that I am diving deeper into. I got some tip offs from my friend, Neil at church. Uh, actually today he, he told me about a communication. Apparently, I think it's Anne Arundel County is having a homeschooling convention coming up. And I haven't checked on the dates, but I believe it's in March. And right before I recorded here, I added a blog onto, uh,

[01:23:01] the apprenticeship diaries website. So you can go check that out. And, uh, I listed a bunch of resources of, uh, the homeschooling convention that I went to so that you guys can check out those resources. Should you be interested? A lot of the organizations, uh, despite it being a homeschooling event in West Virginia, a lot of them were nationwide and had, had programs that also extended to other states.

[01:23:31] So, you know, just because, you know, I went to West Virginia, it doesn't mean that it's only West Virginia. Now, some things are, but, but a lot of things are nationwide and you can find resources. So, and it might give you an idea of certain resources or things to do with your kids. Should you, should you want to, um, homeschool? There was a couple of things that were online. There was a guy there that,

[01:23:57] that was a food scientist and he teaches courses online, online about how to do different science experiments with food and, you know, just teaching cooking and interactive, you know, kind of food base, uh, experiments and educational spaces online. And he's a, he's a guy who does, his name's Dale Cox. Um,

[01:24:24] I found out that he invented the cheese. It. Well, he was one of the people who did the, the white cheddar version of the cheese. Me and Allie were a little like, Oh, so you created the addictive qualities that are all found in these things. And he said, you know, yes, uh, we don't recommend you eat them all the time, but, uh, he was a lovely gentleman.

[01:24:51] And my friend Ken Madden would love him because he was wearing a really fun, bright Hawaiian shirt, uh, which, which reminded me of Ken, but yeah, he seemed like a lovely gentleman. He was very measured. And, you know, honestly, out of all the products of the places that he's worked for, he worked for Kellogg and all these different, you know, food companies, you know, he broke down Cheez-Its and out of all of them, I would say that, you know,

[01:25:20] aside from the con complex carbs and sugars and, um, sources where they get their flour and all that stuff, uh, the over processing that makes it just turn into sugar so quickly. Cheez-Its is probably one of the better products. And I definitely love Cheez-Its. So I was like, you know, dude, I'm a fan, you know, I don't eat Cheez-Its all the time, but when I do, it's a love, it's a love. So Dale Cox is one of them. And he,

[01:25:47] he does online courses about how to play with food and experiment with food. Um, even if you don't, you know, even if your kid isn't homeschooled, I think that these are great resources to check out and who knows, it might be something that just kind of slowly leads you guys in. There's certain camps that are listed. Um, but I don't know if it's a camp, you might be able to, you know, drop your kid off and it doesn't have to be, uh, local to Maryland. It can be something that you just take them to.

[01:26:18] Um, so, you know, check it out. It's on, it's on my website now. Again, that's, uh, the apprenticeship diaries.com. So go check there. Um, it's a, it's a great space to subscribe to the podcast and, um, check out the episodes. But also I, you know, I'm not great at it, but I want to be better at providing for you guys, um, you know,

[01:26:46] resources and different things on the website that are fun. You know, just like, I don't know, different information. That would be kind of cool as I gather information and tools and people and knowledge and all this stuff. So, um, but yeah, homeschooling is, is coming up in the future. And, uh, yeah, I don't know what, I don't know what will happen guys, but, uh, so far so good. It's been very fun.

[01:27:16] Uh, I'm amazed that I was able to talk yet again for an hour and a half. Um, even, even as late as it is. And now it's almost 2 AM Tuesday morning. So I will bid you guys adieu. Uh, God bless. Um, have a powerful week and please, please, please think hopeful, you know, like don't give your power away. You know,

[01:27:45] whatever you might think about whatever leader or person in your life that you, you know, you think is doing something to you, please understand that within each situation you have a choice and you have options. There is power within you and probably far more than you think. And whatever you want to enact in this world, I promise you it's,

[01:28:15] it's as simple as ask and you shall receive. It's going to be work, but you will get there if you really care about it. Um, if my list of things that I wanted 11 years ago has anything to say for what is possible in your life, I can tell you it's as simple as declaring it, writing it down, and then watching it become your life. It's really, really cool.

[01:28:46] So with that, God bless. I love you. Have a powerful week. And I'll talk to y'all soon. Bye. Thanks for listening. You can find the Apprenticeship Diaries on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. Our IG is the underscore apprenticeship underscore diaries. If you would like to offer constructive criticism or an interview, drop us an email at theapprenticeshipdiaries at gmail.com. We look forward to hearing from our listeners.