Strapped
Daily Ramble
I’m strapped for time this morning, so you’re both getting an early and shorter than normal Ramble. Gotta love a good miscommunication with the wife to create a time squeeze. Why? We’re in a rush to see family in Fatima, a small village a couple of hours north of us where the Virgin Mary appeared to children shepherds nearly one hundred years ago. It’s a Catholic pilgrimage location — and also where part of Ana’s family now lives.
The packing process is the physical part of moving, but saying “see you later” to friends and family is emotional. However, with the global volatility caused by a virus with a 99.97% survival rate for people under 50, it’s not lost on me that the “later” in our “see you later” is of unknown duration, making goodbyes especially poignant. Our plan is one year abroad, but between the collective fear of COVID and the medicine plants we’ll be working with in the Amazon, the path is almost certainly non-linear.
Ana and I met in the Amazon in 2014 at an Amazon plant retreat center. She was working there, and I was a client. It’s been seven years since that fateful meeting and four years since we were last in Peru. Yet, despite the time gap, the Peruvian Amazon’s presence never has loomed too far in the distance. It’s been an unsaid agreement that we’d be heading back. Now that we purchased our one-way flight from the US yesterday, it’s a certainty.
Heading into the world of plant medicine is opening life to possibilities that you or I can’t imagine. If it’s a part of your path as well, then you’ll understand, but if it’s not, don’t start unless you are open to possibilities. For me, those possibilities included leaving a career to travel the world, meeting Ana, unplanned flights of fancy, a child, marriage, and rebuilding a career. That’s not to mention the extreme roller coaster of emotions I’ve gone through as previously-stored traumas in my body were discharged, allowing me to re-harmonize with myself, family, and friends. So, no, the medicine path is not for the faint of heart. Quite the opposite — it should not be embarked upon without a courageous heart, openness, and curiosity to know the depths of yourself.
Despite what most in the Bitcoin community think, the medicine path has taught me that becoming a sovereign individual does not rest in the material, mental, and psychological worlds alone.
Rad Things on the Interweb
Bitcoin Price Prediction
Yesterday: $43.8k - $49k
Today: $43.7k - $49k
Weekend: $43.7k - $49k
Bitcoin’s price rolled over the last couple of days as the bulls showed exhaustion from the 25% price push last week. But in the early morning hours of today’s session, the bulls showed back up, driving the price from $43.6k to over $46k. They may have gotten tired, but the bulls are still very much in control of the show. I continue to believe $49k will be hit sooner than later and may even happen today. There’s always room for shenanigans with the weekend upon us, but I struggle to see how the weekend can shift my bias back to bearish. Again, as long as we stay over the $42k on a daily close, I’m very much in the up-and-to-the-right camp.
Bitcoin Q & A
Q: Will Twitter integrate Bitcoin into its platform?
A: Very probably.
Jack Dorsey, CEO of Twitter, has been a champion of Bitcoin for years, believing that having an internet native form of money will be transformative for humanity. Yesterday, in a Tweet exchange with a user, he alluded to every Twitter account having a Lightning Wallet. Imagine that suddenly every Twitter user in the world could exchange Bitcoin with one another, instantaneously, nearly free, and without any middlemen. Jack looks to be taking Twitter there.
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