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40 Years of Hills Alive
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Steering Your Ship: Finding Stability in a Chaotic Financial World
Steering Your Ship: Finding Stability in a Chaotic Financial World In my last post, The Wind in Your Sails, I explored escaping the chaos of money and power by charting your own course. But is true financial stability possible in a world of crypto crashes, AI-driven trading, and market manipulation? Picture a farmer 500 years ago, trading a year’s wages … Read More
Celebrating Non-GMO and Non-Glyphosate Excellence with Health Food Producers
Biochecked’s 14th Anniversary: Celebrating Non-GMO and Non-Glyphosate Excellence with Health Food Producers 🌿 Join BioChecked™in Celebrating 14 Years of Pioneering Non-GMO and Non-Glyphosate Certification! 🌱 For 14 years, Biochecked™ has been the trusted partner for health food producers, ensuring the highest standards in non-GMO certification and non-Glyphosate certification. Our mission? To empower producers to deliver clean, sustainable, and transparent products … Read More
Did Big Tech and Mainstream Media Break Search Engines—or Did They Sabotage Themselves?
Did Big Tech and Mainstream Media Break Search Engines—or Did They Sabotage Themselves? Introduction: A Personal Journey Through a Digital Revolution In the mid-1990s, I was a struggling artist in Rapid City, South Dakota, juggling a new marriage, a hefty mortgage, and a burning desire to turn my creative passion into a sustainable livelihood. Freshly laid off from a corporate … Read More
The Wind in Your Sails: Escaping the Chaos of Money and Power
The Wind in Your Sails: Escaping the Chaos of Money and Power “One man’s wind in his sails, guides his ship and crew to new horizons, while the same wind fuels the flames of another’s destruction.” I said this the other day, and it hit me hard. Money, power, leadership—they’re like the wind. For some, they’re a force for freedom, … Read More
Winds in your sails!
Speaking about monitary supply, economics and money today with a friend I said, “One man’s wind fills his sails, guiding his ship and crew to new horizons, while the same wind fans the flames of another’s destruction.” – Scott L. Prentice I’m not sure if this is someone else’s quote (Deepseek Search revealed no other use of this quote), but … Read More
Is it Sacagawea or Sakakawea? Unraveling the Name of a Legendary Native Woman
A Native Ambassador
A Tale Between Two Towers
The Towers of Friendship: Seth Bullock, Theodore Roosevelt, and a Symbol of Insight In my previous post, I started to dive into the extraordinary friendship between Seth Bullock, Deadwood’s legendary sheriff, and Theodore Roosevelt, the adventurous president who dubbed Bullock “a true Westerner, the finest type of frontiersman.” Their bond, forged in the Dakota Territory, led to Bullock’s service as … Read More
From Highlands to Badlands: My Journey with The Rubicon, Fog Lode, 4 Bears Casino, and Roosevelt’s Legacy
From Highlands to Badlands: My Journey with The Rubicon, Fog Lode, 4 Bears Casino, and Roosevelt’s Legacy By Scott Prentice The North Dakota Badlands and South Dakota’s Black Hills are lands of rugged beauty—golden buttes, whispering cottonwoods, and towering Ponderosa pines that stand as sentinels of time. As an artist, prospector, and developer, I’ve been shaped by these landscapes, from … Read More
Drilling Deep in the Bakken: A Year of Grit, Cold, and Connections
Working On The Bakken Oil Field 2014