Catherine Bleish, Anarchist / Activist Mom, I Live in the Bitcoin.com Bus and Unschool My Kids

Howdy! I am Catherine Bleish with the Bitcoin.com Bus! I took this photo (in the bus) while cruising through New Mexico as we head toward the Jackalope Freedom Festival in AZ. We are currently on tour, Dash Across America, spending bitcoin, dash, and crypto currencies only!

I am the mother of 2 unschooled free spirits, wife of bitcoin podcaster John Bush, partner at Brave New Books, and a lover of all things decentralized.

(Volunteers helped remodel the Bitcoin.com Bus last week!)

We live in the Bitcoin.com Bus, a converted school bus tiny home. This amazing house allows us to experience the glory of Mother Nature and man alike. Forests, lakes, rivers, oceans, and mountains have all been our front yard.... it is truly amazing to see stars surrounding 3 sides of your bed at night!!!!!! And then there is the beauty of the Brooklyn Brooklyn bridge, or the chaos of downtown Houston. All blessed experiences!

(The kids love to collect pieces of nature)

Our family is passionate about unschooling, a decentralized peer to peer education model. It allows our family to spend quality time together as we learn and grow naturally. Neither John or I did well in the public education system, John was the class clown always in trouble, I was the grade A nerd deeply depressed and stiffled. Both John amd I LOVE to learn and research, and we knew our kids would likely be like us - brilliant kids who do NOT fit into society's mold. We decided to give our children the freedom of unschooling and so far it has been one of the best decisions we have made as parents.

(Airbitz.co is our favorite bitcoin wallet)

I am sure you can tell we love bitcoin :) alternative currencies allow us to undermine the state without fighting it. My days as a radical activist, getting arrested in police confrontations, ended when we had kids. We found agorism (peer to peer economy) to be a more productive and less intense way to create social change.

(Party at our bookstore)

We run Brave New Books in Austin, Texas, as well as thehomestead.guru viral homesteading blog, and a nonprofit called the Center for Natural Living. My husband also has a popular bitcoin blog called SovereignBTC.

We were working on a reality series called Sovereign Living (project of the Center for Natural Living), but our landlord unexpectedly sold our farm 2 years ago causing a spiral of financial and emotional strife that resulted in total stagnation of the project.

You can watch episode 1 for free here and episodes 2, 3 and 4 with bitcoin at Watchmybit.com. If any angel donors out there see these episodes and want to fund the final edits of 5 and 6 so we can submit to Netflix, hulu, etc... please let me know :) It would be a tax deductible donation and go to a great cause!

My husband also gives talks on Freedom Cells - peer to peer society building from the bottom up. Check out his talk about them here.

Overall we are a busy family on a grand adventure. We are trying to make the world a better place through living our philosophy in action. We are always learning and growing and are very pleased to have found #steemit!

If you would like to support our family video project - patreon com/theblushfamily - I try to upload one a week, the more support we get the more consistent they will be :)

Can someone tell me how to change my profile photo here on SteemIt?

Gracias <3