My in-laws: pastor's office

David and me: basic church wedding with dessert reception (at a modest off-site location because the church was renovating the reception hall) 

Total costs for all three weddings roughly adjusted for inflation: $10,000? 

Total years married: About 150 years 

https://youtu.be/2ucWMEwsm7E?si=RHEGQKDJi_aOxAPf  

Am I the only one who still uses a piece of paper and pen to make her grocery list?

I've never made digital lists on my phone. 

I've never stopped being analog in this respect. 

And you know who got Tesla's papers right? The ones the government didn't confiscate? 

John Trump (President Trump's uncle) who was a legend at MIT. 

The question is not what Tesla believed about old buildings. The question is what he found in those buildings that convinced him. Tesla did not theorize in the abstract. He worked from measurement, experiment, physical demonstration. If he became convinced that Gothic cathedrals and neoclassical civic halls were electrical infrastructure, it was because he measured something inside them that standard architectural history does not explain.

What did he measure?

In 1934, Nikola Tesla traveled to Paris for a series of lectures on high-frequency electrical phenomena. While in the city, he requested access to Notre-Dame Cathedral — not to admire the rose windows or the flying buttresses. He wanted to examine the crypts and foundation level. The request was approved under the pretext of acoustical research. Tesla spent four hours below the cathedral, alone except for a custodian, examining limestone blocks and metal anchoring systems embedded in the foundation walls.

He returned to New York and immediately wrote to the Rockefeller Foundation requesting funding for what he called acomprehensive survey of pre-modern civic architecture across Europe and North America. The request was denied. No reason given.

But in private letters to Arthur Matthews, Tesla described what he had found beneath Notre-Dame: copper grounding systems embedded directly into the cathedral’s foundation blocks — not modern restorations added during 19th-century repairs, but original construction. Deliberately insulated with natural resins. Geometrically arranged in radial patterns extending outward from the central nave. Still conductive after six centuries.

Tesla called themearth batteries— passive electrical storage systems using the compression of stone, the mineralization of groundwater, and the conductivity of copper to create standing charges that could be drawn upon without fuel, without generation, without metering.

https://voxday.net/2026/05/25/the-energy-of-the-old-world/ 

https://youtu.be/XKzm9T6LcU8?si=InIYqlUeiRWFPBv0  

By the mid-1940s, Grace Livingston Hill was at the absolute peak of her writing career with almost one-hundred beloved novels to her credit. In an uncertain, complicated post-World War II climate, readers eagerly sought out her stories for their comfort, warmth, and reliable messages of eternal hope. 

https://isabellaalden.com/2026/05/19/everybody-likes-grace/ 

https://youtube.com/shorts/J47IC-aKQEw?si=FKjFWc-iumhBelMk  

How much do we require our children to learn or commit to memory?

How much do we focus on making them life-long learners and problem solvers? 

Early homeschoolers struggled to put together enough curriculum to homeschool. They made do and made their own. 

Homeschoolers are literally drowning in curriculum options now.

And that doesn't even get into AI. 

It wrote the board descriptions for my main 47 boards. They might not be absolutely perfect as I would write them, but they are done and working for me now. And 85% is better than 0% right now. 

It critiqued my new pin designs and updated me on pinning strategies such as timing, types, and group boards. 

Love it or hate it, AI is incredibly helpful for some tasks. In the past two and a half days, I've easily done a month's worth of work. Yes, a month's work of work. That is how much it can help me do things. 

Like many writers and business owners, I've struggle to decide how much to use AI. If my goal is to help as many homeschool moms as quickly as possible, then using AI with some tasks helps me meet that goal literally months earlier than I would alone. 

So does AI fit with simple living? Yes, I think it can. 

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