This episode explores Proverbs 31 to understand the qualities of a virtuous woman, biblical principles of leadership, kindness, and household management, and their relevance today.
8 April 2026
Mystery on Mulberry Street, someone has taken my tiny library. Most likely it was picked up my bulk trash, but it’s frustrating that someone would do that. There was a bench and the library connected that was filled with books and my newspaper with the date of April. There was also a big rock inside a box connected to the bench. All of it was taken, the bench was even tied down to the ground so that a big storm couldn’t blow it away. All of it was free to take, I’m more confused that someone would have to walk onto my property, pull it out of the ground with books and papers falling out, then they threw that out. They even left the stakes in the ground the bench was tied to meaning they didn’t even do a good job cleaning. I’ve already ordered a new bench and will try again. My next attempt will be put into the ground thoroughly. Yesterday, I also made contact with another member of the community. They had started a new organization to help people with recovery. My Queen shared a post where they appeared on the local radio station and I looked deeper. It’s a 12 step program and seems a lot of the attendees have struggle with drug and alcohol addiction. The align with my purpose to take things forgotten or neglected and find their value. One part is finding a property, I did get a new lead on a mailing address for the property I want, then finding people to fill the property. People will see it as business, no, society puts restrictions on people. A felon has more restrictions and a Veterans usually has less. We work together to help the city.
7 April 2026
Easter is over, back to work. Here’s an update on what I’ve been working on. Over the weekend I decided to pull up the map of town and drive around to anything that looks interesting. One place I found was a park nestled in a far corner. The property had signs saying what organization was responsible for the land and I’ll have to go back for pictures since I didn’t write the information down. Talking to the organization about the park I’m certain I’ll be able to plant some trees there. When I talked to radio station owner, I mentioned broadcasting live concerts and this park would be a great location. Then I went closer to the center of town to look for any buildings for sale or looking abandoned, and that’s what I found. There was a building with a beautiful facade and I could see curtains behind the glass door. The stains on the curtains indicate to me no one has touched them in years and when I got closer I could see the roof of this big building had collapsed long ago with grass growing inside. My assumption is no one of authority in the city knows about this building. What I’ve discovered about why these properties sit untouched is legally no one can touch them. Most are neglected by the owner, either an heir who didn’t want it or a person that falls behind on taxes. Back taxes are sold by the city and the owner of the taxes puts a lien on the property. After two years that lien can turn into ownership, but the individuals that buy back taxes don’t want ownership, they want cash with interest. The physical building sits untouched while no one can buy it, and those with a claim not pursuing it. My plan is through my nonprofit to start freeing up properties.
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1 April 2026
This month’s issue of The Cornerstone is out now, read it at thecornerstonepress.com My phone call with the radio station owner went well, maybe you can hear my voice on the radio soon. Next week we’re going to try to meet up at the station. On top of the opportunities at the radio station, there may be uses for the surrounding land, for instance the owner has a snowcone stand their. He also let me know that my city has a local paper, so I reached out to them as well if they’d like any help or to talk to me. My pursuits to purchase a commercial property have changed. The building I was looking at has unpaid taxes and a company has already bought them. This puts a lien on the property and would have to be settled before selling, in other words too much trouble to be worth the effort. I’m fine with a rundown location, cleaning up dirt and debris takes a little effort and the difference is visible. Cleaning a legal mess is near impossible. Unfortunately for our city, that building will probably remain empty for another decade. When I walked around the other day, there were a couple store fronts with boarded up windows and I’ll work with my realtor to find an active seller. Likely everyone is too in their own world to care about the effect their environment makes. Broken glass theory is that in a city if a person sees broken glass on the streets, they’re more likely to throw their trash on the ground. Good examples matter and have a compound interest effect.
30 March 2026
I’m back online and setting standards to warm up. We had some highs and lows on vacation, but that’s life. This morning after dropping off the elder princess at daycare I went to the county clerk’s office for information about a commercial property I’ve been inquiring about. There was good news and bad news. Good for me was there are unpaid taxes, the difficult part is the property was handed down by a will and there was no contact information for the owner. By calling the attorney who handled the estate I could at least get her number, that’s progress. On another front, I found a local radio station and last week emailed them to say hi and share what I’ve been up to. The owner emailed me back saying we should talk about what I want to do on the radio. I’ll try to call him tomorrow for a fun conversation I’m sure. There’ll be a new issue of my newspaper on Wednesday April 1st, and the Wrecking and Rapping show was maintained through time off. After finishing this I’ll go to record another push up video, currently up to number 16 out of 22. That leaves two or three weeks of recording at my current pace. With my coffee brewing, I made my first batch of cold brew and it’s delicious. Life is good, it will take some time to get into the swing of things. The beginning of the year is most important to me as it’s the least important to others. After Christmas time, advertising drops and so do content creators since they’re not being paid, that leaves space for me.
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11 March 2026
I’m taking a vacation. Been on a good streak for awhile and got a lot accomplished already this year. Check out my newspaper at www.thecornerstonepress.com if you haven’t already and I’ll be back in a couple weeks. The show should still be out on Saturdays.
Sent as Sheep WAR ep 84
5 March 2026
The kids are getting sick, there’s not much sleeping, so there won’t be much writing. Everything is coming along well, it’s a luxury to struggle and still survive. In time, everyone will be healthy again, today is about getting through. My push up videos continue, I’ve got 6 out of 22 complete. If I continue doing 3 videos a week, I’ll be done with time to spare. That gives me the expectation of slowing down at some point. A new printer I ordered for the newspaper should be arriving today along with other equipment for that purpose. Life is good.
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