After 3 consecutive early miscarriages last year, my wife and I are having our first kid in October! 17 weeks in and all our genetic and blood screenings show it's big and healthy. Finding out it's a boy was just blue icing on the cake.
Just set a move in start date of June 1st on our dream home, located on 9 acres of land in a farming community in the county I grew up in as a child, here in South Carolina.
I went from being nihilistic and depressed to having 2 beautiful daughters and wife and true purpose in my life in about 4 years and became closer to a few lifetime friends. I don’t know how and at what scale but I believe my children will have a better life when they are my age focusing on family and faith.
Enjoy the trip and keep up the great work Pete, you have helped me and even a few of my friends!
All my seeds have sprouted in my garden! It's not much but it's been a good first step in growing part of our own food. On top of that, my daughter has been engaged and excited in our little project.
My close-knit small-ish church has been growing by leaps and bounds with good people fleeing covid tyranny & wokeism. Many of them have already started homesteads with animals.
People are happy, enjoying and helping each other. Some of them have gotten jobs working for, with or through other members. A number of them have the freedom of being able to work remotely (one of the only good things that came out of Covid).
Babies are being born, SO many in the last year alone. Our Sunday School classrooms are overflowing with children. Catechisms are being memorized.
Most are either homeschooling or have their children in small private Christian schools. They are all being raised by their parents in a shared, resilient, uncompromised, traditional God-centered theological discipline & culture.
You once said that 3 or 4 strong families could weather many storms. I think we have that in abundance. When I think about covenant communities, my mind keeps being drawn to our church, pondering the future and possibilities. Shared culture. Shared values. Strong families. Knowledge and reverence for WHO is the truth. Uncompromising.
This is probably going to sound dumb but here are a few:
1. I couldn't help but smile and laugh a little to myself watching my husband get down on the floor and play with my cat by shooting rubberbands across the room for her to chase or catch. She's my cat from way before I ever met him and while she's been nicer to him than anyone else I've ever brought around she's still a cranky old (14!) lady cat. But my husband is kind and loving to her as much as she'll allow and the fact that he takes time out of his evening to specifically show her attention really means a lot to me.
2. Making friends as an adult is challenging so it's been a joy to make a new friend at work and start jiu jitsu classes with her (her husband was doing it and she invited me because she wanted to try it too but wanted another girl in class)!
3. I'm a physical therapist and I've had a few challenging and sad patient cases lately but one particular young patient this week with a really sad recent family event history leading to some existential and ultimately physical manifestations of pain. I was able to help the patient make connections to some of the recent emotionally painful events and the physical presentation of problems and get them connected to grief counseling services and encouraged them to get back into their sports and exercise routine which had stopped right at the time of the family event. They left so much more uplifted than when the appointment began. It just felt good to help them start to get back on track a little.
I live in a beautiful place, my sons are healthy and strong. I have financial independence and am 70% retired at age 52. My wife and I are still best of friends after over 2 decades together
Best friend had a baby, I got all As in my classes and im starting to not care as much about nonsense. Seems that concentrating some bandwidth does wonders.
White pill of the day: just driving down the street in Roy, UT. Air Force base town. I hear a familiar voice in the car next to me making sense about Russia and Ukraine. It’s Dave Smith, of course and the guy is listening to Rogan. I roll down my window at the stop light and say, “hey, you’re listening to Dave Smith!” He says, “yeah, he’s on Rogan. He’s great!” I said, “have you checked out Pete Quiñones?” I said, “if you like Dave, you’ll REALLY like Pete.” He said, “I’ll check him out!” Big smile on his face. He said, “it’s really cool you could recognize his voice.” You know what? It’s cool that I am hearing voices of reason in other people’s cars driving down the street in my city! Big fucking white pill!
My wife forced a separation on me, from her, our small vegetable/herb farm, and two young children last year. Through my pain of great loss I have found God, and a renewed optimism for our world. When I am ready, I’m sure that a better woman will find me, and we will have a new family.. I no longer see a man-made world crumbling in decline, but something more of a transformation in progress. I look forward every day to see more bits of the old ‘utopia’ that I grew up in, and so despised, crumbling away as a new order is forming to take its place. Thank you, Pete, I’m on the ride with you. What a wild ride this life is, and I thank God for it.
It's a tough balance knowing he has a plan but seeing horrors all around. We suffer something akin to the weight of Job but at least we're not covered in boils.
Yessir. I mean to say that my white pill is that knowing now that my fear of ‘collapse’ or apocalypse is probably a huge part of what has been screwing up my life, and that now that my personal life has fallen apart, it’s very liberating, and grounding, in the end. Apocalypse is nothing to fear, I think. But my problems are nothing compared with those of Job, so I could be wrong!
After 3 consecutive early miscarriages last year, my wife and I are having our first kid in October! 17 weeks in and all our genetic and blood screenings show it's big and healthy. Finding out it's a boy was just blue icing on the cake.
Awesome man. Congratulations!!!!
Just set a move in start date of June 1st on our dream home, located on 9 acres of land in a farming community in the county I grew up in as a child, here in South Carolina.
YES!!
I went from being nihilistic and depressed to having 2 beautiful daughters and wife and true purpose in my life in about 4 years and became closer to a few lifetime friends. I don’t know how and at what scale but I believe my children will have a better life when they are my age focusing on family and faith.
Enjoy the trip and keep up the great work Pete, you have helped me and even a few of my friends!
You did all the work. How many people read words on a screen and do nothing with the information?
Congratulations on your family!
All my seeds have sprouted in my garden! It's not much but it's been a good first step in growing part of our own food. On top of that, my daughter has been engaged and excited in our little project.
That's huge!!!! Statistically improbable
My close-knit small-ish church has been growing by leaps and bounds with good people fleeing covid tyranny & wokeism. Many of them have already started homesteads with animals.
People are happy, enjoying and helping each other. Some of them have gotten jobs working for, with or through other members. A number of them have the freedom of being able to work remotely (one of the only good things that came out of Covid).
Babies are being born, SO many in the last year alone. Our Sunday School classrooms are overflowing with children. Catechisms are being memorized.
Most are either homeschooling or have their children in small private Christian schools. They are all being raised by their parents in a shared, resilient, uncompromised, traditional God-centered theological discipline & culture.
You once said that 3 or 4 strong families could weather many storms. I think we have that in abundance. When I think about covenant communities, my mind keeps being drawn to our church, pondering the future and possibilities. Shared culture. Shared values. Strong families. Knowledge and reverence for WHO is the truth. Uncompromising.
God is working.
With the move we're making this is our goal as well. Everyone we've experienced so far has treated us like family.
My beautiful wife and incredible 2-year-old daughter bring me joy and daughter #2 will be here in July to make my life even better.
Man, your journey, from what you've told me, has been the hugest white pill.
It's lilac season, and I'm about to make lilac lemon tea. (Honey, lilacs, lemon, water)
I want some!!!!
This weekend I will be assisting my wife with restructuring our garden to allow us to increase our food supply in the same given area.
Additionally I am in the final phases of being able to start a new income stream to be able create true financial flexibility for my family and me.
Both of those things are steps in the path to true independence.
This is probably going to sound dumb but here are a few:
1. I couldn't help but smile and laugh a little to myself watching my husband get down on the floor and play with my cat by shooting rubberbands across the room for her to chase or catch. She's my cat from way before I ever met him and while she's been nicer to him than anyone else I've ever brought around she's still a cranky old (14!) lady cat. But my husband is kind and loving to her as much as she'll allow and the fact that he takes time out of his evening to specifically show her attention really means a lot to me.
2. Making friends as an adult is challenging so it's been a joy to make a new friend at work and start jiu jitsu classes with her (her husband was doing it and she invited me because she wanted to try it too but wanted another girl in class)!
3. I'm a physical therapist and I've had a few challenging and sad patient cases lately but one particular young patient this week with a really sad recent family event history leading to some existential and ultimately physical manifestations of pain. I was able to help the patient make connections to some of the recent emotionally painful events and the physical presentation of problems and get them connected to grief counseling services and encouraged them to get back into their sports and exercise routine which had stopped right at the time of the family event. They left so much more uplifted than when the appointment began. It just felt good to help them start to get back on track a little.
Cats, friends and someone's life improved. That's more than most people will achieve this year.
I live in a beautiful place, my sons are healthy and strong. I have financial independence and am 70% retired at age 52. My wife and I are still best of friends after over 2 decades together
You're an inspiration Anthony. All of that and you did the work while people were just talking.
The heroes were the ones who took the risk and refused to comply. I just had their backs. Thank you for your content
Best friend had a baby, I got all As in my classes and im starting to not care as much about nonsense. Seems that concentrating some bandwidth does wonders.
Laser focus on one objective is the perfect antidote to the Black Pill
White pill of the day: just driving down the street in Roy, UT. Air Force base town. I hear a familiar voice in the car next to me making sense about Russia and Ukraine. It’s Dave Smith, of course and the guy is listening to Rogan. I roll down my window at the stop light and say, “hey, you’re listening to Dave Smith!” He says, “yeah, he’s on Rogan. He’s great!” I said, “have you checked out Pete Quiñones?” I said, “if you like Dave, you’ll REALLY like Pete.” He said, “I’ll check him out!” Big smile on his face. He said, “it’s really cool you could recognize his voice.” You know what? It’s cool that I am hearing voices of reason in other people’s cars driving down the street in my city! Big fucking white pill!
Awww, thank you Karen. I really appreciate that.
Isn't a world that becomes familiar with reason a better world?
My wife forced a separation on me, from her, our small vegetable/herb farm, and two young children last year. Through my pain of great loss I have found God, and a renewed optimism for our world. When I am ready, I’m sure that a better woman will find me, and we will have a new family.. I no longer see a man-made world crumbling in decline, but something more of a transformation in progress. I look forward every day to see more bits of the old ‘utopia’ that I grew up in, and so despised, crumbling away as a new order is forming to take its place. Thank you, Pete, I’m on the ride with you. What a wild ride this life is, and I thank God for it.
It's a tough balance knowing he has a plan but seeing horrors all around. We suffer something akin to the weight of Job but at least we're not covered in boils.
Yessir. I mean to say that my white pill is that knowing now that my fear of ‘collapse’ or apocalypse is probably a huge part of what has been screwing up my life, and that now that my personal life has fallen apart, it’s very liberating, and grounding, in the end. Apocalypse is nothing to fear, I think. But my problems are nothing compared with those of Job, so I could be wrong!