Gratitude Meets a Knife

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Hey there, Visionary Navigators,

Just survived three Thanksgiving dinners in four days.

My birthday landed right before Turkey Day. Friends and family decided to go all out. Worth every food coma nap.

Breaking bread with people who actually get you beats everything. No fake conversations. No surface-level garbage. Just connection, laughter, and ridiculous amounts of home made food.

Week didn't slow down after that though.

Why You Should Give All the Cares:

• The Wisdom Tooth Conspiracy: Your kid's jaw is too small and nobody's telling you why

• Sheep Processing Reality: Taking a life to feed your family weighs different than you think

• Truth-Finding Tools: Stop getting played by media manipulation

The Wisdom Tooth Scam Nobody Talks About

Drove 2.5 hours yesterday to take my daughter to a dentist.

Not your standard drill-and-fill setup.

We went to a holistic specialist who looks at root causes. Modern medicine wants to cut first, ask later. Chemical fixes. Surgery. Treat symptoms, ignore problems.

My family avoids that path whenever possible.

Getting her fitted for an ALF device. No surgery. No cutting. Nothing invasive. Small metal appliance sits in her mouth and does what should've happened naturally.

ALF = Advanced Lightwire Functional appliance.
It is a thin, flexible, stainless-steel wire framework that sits along the inside surfaces of the teeth (the tongue side), supported by a few small clasps around molars.

Nobody tells you this about wisdom teeth.

Humans have 32 teeth total. Wisdom teeth included. In a properly developed jaw, they all fit.

Modern kids rarely get that development. Jaws grow too small. Soft food. Weak chewing. Mouth-breathing from congestion. Low tongue posture. Screen time hunching. Midline restrictions.

All this collapses the arches before permanent teeth even show up.

Narrow palates. Crowded teeth. Back-fallen jaw with zero room for wisdom teeth.

Conventional orthodontics arrives late. Works inside an already undersized arch. Treats crowding like genetic destiny instead of developmental failure.

No room? Extract. Pull premolars. Yank wisdom teeth. Call it standard care.

The system normalized these extractions as routine and profitable. Meanwhile, early airway-focused approaches could grow a child's jaw correctly, prevent crowding, improve breathing, and let all 32 teeth fit properly.

Look for an airway-centric pediatric dentist, functional orthodontist, or someone trained in ALF, Myobrace, or myofunctional therapy if you want to explore this for your kid.

They focus on jaw growth, breathing, and proper development. Not waiting for problems then pulling teeth.

When Gratitude Meets a Knife

Sheep processing day happened this weekend.

Five months of helping care for these lambs. Time came to bring them into our food system.

This was intense.

My family paid for one lamb we'd been shepherding on my buddy's property. Each week I rotated the grazing zones. Watched them grow. Cared for them.

Then I took a knife and ended that lamb's life.

Only works because of community. Friends had the land. They got the sheep. We helped deliver them. Many hands made this possible. One family doing this alone? Nearly impossible.

Led my lamb around the barn so the herd couldn't see. Three people held the sheep down. My job was cutting arteries, helping it bleed out.

Didn't realize how much work it takes. Keeping blood vessels from clotting. Someone has to massage the wound to pulse blood out or it stops and prolongs death.

Took 3 to 5 minutes.

Several women in our group sang songs during the transition.

That singing made all the difference.

Talked with a buddy afterward. Easy to go numb during this. Harden your heart. Could feel it starting already.

After finishing with the knife, I felt rigid. Hard. Armored up. "Do this no matter what" energy.

But holding the animal, waiting for blood to drain, I recognized needing to soften.

Those women singing? Reminded me how to release into the moment.

Got teary. Big emotions. Weight of taking life to feed my family. Gratitude for the sacrifice.

Hit me then.

Same lesson I'm working on with my partner. Learning not to stay hard and closed off. Softening into communication and connection.

Same mechanic. Different context.

Staying aware of when I'm rigid versus open. Choosing to soften into difficult moments instead of bracing against them.

After, we carried the sheep to hang it. Skinned it. Gutted it.

Day one salted the hide to preserve it. Bagged the bodies to finish cutting tomorrow.

Beautiful doing this in community.

Kids ran around. Didn't participate much because December cold. But there for opening circle. Knew what we were doing.

They'll know when it's on the dinner table where this food came from.

Extremely valuable lesson.

The Truth-Finding System for The 12% Who Smell The BS

Recover the lost tools to separate truth from weaponized lies. Unplug from the media outrage cycle.

Even if you think you're too smart for brainwashing. Even if you're paralyzed by red pill hangover.

What you get:

→ 2,400-year-old method they pulled from schools
→ 72-Hour Rule (stop reacting to breaking news)
→ 5 Warning Signs (spot cult control before joining)

Everyone else buying junk headed for landfills by New Years.

You could upgrade the one thing that actually matters.

Your brain.

One time deal for you here.

Tech Corner: Good news for the consumer

Sam Altman just announced code red over Google's AI advancement. Said they needed to fast-track the secret "Garlic" model. Expect serious new ChatGPT features this month.

Deepseek launched V3.2. Basically rivals open-sourced ChatGPT 5.0. Good for people. Just gotta get it off China servers.

AI music situation? Completely out of control.

That AI country track hitting number one on Billboard? Written by Abraham Abushmais. Former collaborator who co-wrote tracks on Blanko Brown's 2019 album.

Suno generates 7 million songs daily. Enough to recreate Spotify's entire catalog every two weeks.

Music industry just did a complete 180 on AI Music. Nobody's talking about what that means for creators. Full breakdown here

Today’s Takeaways:

1. Jaw Development Matters: Wisdom tooth extraction industry exists because we're not developing kids' jaws properly

2. Softening Into Hard Moments: Most difficult experiences teach staying present and grateful

3. Community Makes It Possible: Impossible alone becomes doable with right people

Processing animals for food. Driving hours for holistic healthcare. Building community that actually supports each other.

What part resonates with you?

Hit reply. Let me know what you're working on or questions you have about any of this.

That's a wrap.

Stay curious and keep buildin,

Joshua | The Holistic Tech Wizard

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