R ō N I N - G A R D E N / J A R D í N

“Think for yourself, or others will think for you without thinking of you.” - Henry David Thoreau

“But investing isn’t about beating others at their game. It’s about controlling yourself at your own game.” - Benjamin Graham, The Intelligent Investor

“What has been will be again, 
what has been done will be done again;
there is nothing new under the sun.” - Ecclesiastes 1:9 

Returning to The Yard / Annapolis June 2022 provided great introspection.

Tacit knowledge is more constructive than currency in youth. Age & direct experience may help those prepare 

Capital Structure is critical to our new entrepreneurial project in South America.

Knowing isn’t action. Applied science is part of the process > Implementing solutions and creating equitable systems may be the next niche in a western world cannibalizing capital.

Primal Instincts of my youth brought me to The U.S. Naval Academy as military service was not popular and I knew my discipline was lacking to see the world on a budget. The window of different period is gone for much of the northern hemisphere world as the masses have traded freedom for safety [Ben Franklin].

Gift of living around the world acting in multiple disciplines is to find peace & apply concepts from action to navigate thru potentially severe storms ahead in the macro economic world. Timing of extraction markets around the precious metals are setting up to look like the 50 year storm with conditions in fixed income / digital promises to pay.

Actions today in Uruguay & Precious Metals would have made ZERO sense to the young midshipmen in 1989. Going out to see the world is one thing - Interaction with business is another - Skin in the Game > Entrepreneurship is yet another world. For us living & dying by the risk adjusted returns sword there is not much interest in speaking with safety over freedom [different from sailors taking liberty] people.

Learning to surf west living out of a 2002 VW Eurovan was may have been preparation for a spiritual war on the masses.

Requesting duty far away provided the opportunity to visit Japan numerous occasions for business. Culture, Art, Cuisine & People were essential seeds in preparation for a life of passion and equitable solutions. Road trips to resource conferences, architectural rebuild projects or surf contests were often ‘cross pollination’ experiences lifting up spirits and seeking alpha in new ideas and processes from others who produce & provide to society.

"The Quality of your life is a direct reflection of of the quality of questions you are asking yourself." - Anthony Robbins

The sea wall area along The Severn to the Chesapeake Bay were a special part of the yard better understood on our trip. Walking back along the Robert Crown Sailing Center provided a new perception of an old friend - The Ambassador’s Pagoda. Counting the levels of this pyramid type structure amounted to 13 as to be expected  with the dedication thru connections with the financial cabal.

“For the first time in its history, Western Civilization is in danger of being destroyed internally by a corrupt, criminal ruling cabal which is centered around the Rockefeller interests, which include elements from the Morgan, Brown, Rothschild, Du Pont, Harriman, Kuhn-Loeb, and other groupings as well. This junta took control of the political, financial, and cultural life of America in the first two decades of the twentieth century.” - Carroll Quigley

There are always layers to defend the real financiers. Professor Quigley’s noted family’s were implementers here in the Northern American Hemisphere.

Franklin D. R. - son of a bankers family helped ensure the bankruptcy proceedings on 1933 were set along with the elimination of ownership of gold. Nothing is by Chance & always follow the trails of capital. Wonder how many of my classmates are aware citizens of U.S.A. Corp were no longer allowed to own coins stipulated in Article 1 Section 10? Principles? Ethics?

“Also, when you find that Lenin declared and demonstrated that a sure way to overturn the existing social order and bring about communism was by printing press paper money, then again you are impressed with the possibility of a relationship between a gold-backed money and human freedom… The subject of a Hitler or a Stalin is a serf by the mere fact that his money can be called in and depreciated at the whim of his rulers. That actually happened in Russia a few months ago, when the Russian people, holding cash, had to turn it in -- 10 old rubles and receive back one new ruble.”

- Human Freedom Rests on Gold Redeemable Money

By HON. HOWARD BUFFETT, U. S. Congressman from Nebraska Reprinted from The Commercial and Financial Chronicle, May 6, 1948

Relevance to Baja California Sur is the metamorphosis during our later years to better understand the Ronin Samurai. 

Respecting energy provided by the earth was magnified as an inmate of The California Penal System. Writings provided by a close USNA friend to my mother as the only points of contact to read Ayn Rand, Malcom X, Marcus Aurelius & Dr. Marc Faber.

Introspection magnifies returning to a physical province where hard time or capital allocation was disbursed. The United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland was utilized as a chance to break away.

Architecture and Riding Energy were 2 primary goals as a youth. The other was to get out of New England. ASU Architecture early entry was put on ice for Navy Lacrosse.

Returning to a past life aids in comprehension of personal change & spiritual growth.

Recognizing past personal ignorance is important. Rather impressed I knew enough to know I was stupid - a blind man with a cane - with accelerated leverage.

Obtain critical real world skills could come in other forms - Please see follow up on our garden plans soon… Our Japanese Garden in Manantiales, Uruguay may represent a shelter in a larger storm for wild artists, entrepreneurs or those seeking time away in the wild.

- CAS

P.S1992 Summer - M16A2 Instructor > Supply Corps > Asia / Singapore - Japan - Forks in the road… Note blogpost Mangum P.I.