It is good to see growing respect in our society for unborn babies. I would like to have a few more children, but my wife is tired and does not want to go through the post-partum period, when she has difficulty walking for months. That's fine with me. I just hope I will not have resistance from her regarding my freedom to teach other children, the poorest in this area, on the other side of the railroad tracks. I first met them in 1990, when I lived here and delivered pizzas for the then-new Domino's Pizza Joint on White Street.
I miss delivering pizzas and always enjoyed it very much. It is a splendid thing to drive around all evening listening to good classic rock and roll and taking pizzas to people who very much want to have them. Walking up to their doors and ringing the bell is great, too, as you know they will greet you with genuine glee. A man could do a lot worse for income, to be sure. It's not even like you're working ... just bringing people a hot pizza or two. What's wrong with that?
I just checked the prices for study at two Christian schools, and even with the discounts, it seems to be too much for my wife to want to fork over. Raleigh Christian Academy and Neuse Christian Academy. It would have been better if we had purchased a home about 5 miles South of Wake Forest, rather than 3 miles North of town. That would have put me just about a five minute drive from these two schools. With my discounts from attending their churches (10%), and being a seminarian (maybe 20%), plus the 500 dollar reduction for each subsequent child, it comes out to be affordable, in my eyes at least. I wouldn't mind starting a business, if necessary, in order to pay for it.
My older sister recommended we start a mini-warehouse business, which would work fairly well for our situation. I would be happy sitting there waiting for people to come in and rent a space to store some stuff, so long as it is not anything like dead bodies, counterfeit monies, illegal drugs, contraband, and thus and such.
My oldest son would have space to grow his birds, particularly if we were a bit outside of town, with some farmland surrounding the lot for warehousing. We could raise some goats and make cheese, something I have long wanted to do. I would also like to grow some grapes on a slope (for drainage). That is about the only way to get good enough drainage here in all this red clay soil. But you can't start this sort of thing without some farmland. I believe it would need to be zoned commercial, too, in order to run the warehouse business there. We will pray about it, and see where it goes.
I need to finish up some papers for my two ethics classes. Studying at the seminary has been a golden experience for me these past few months. I hope to have a continuation of that charm this next Spring if not before. They have a winter class term offered in what you might call a "condensed experience," attending every weekday for anywhere from three to five hours.
Love, Nathaniel
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