Receiving Support and Preparing for Caretaker Move

September 28, 2025. rswfire is currently volunteering with the Forest Service in Oregon dunes area, preparing to move next week to a caretaker position at a different campground within the same forest corridor system. Winter rains are expected to begin that night and continue for a full week. He's in a more integrated community situation compared to his previous nomadic state, rebuilding his life after the state parks betrayal.

Energetic Signature

grounded gratitude

Field State

stabilization with infrastructure building

Orientation

toward integrated community

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September 28, 2025

15:39

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rswfire

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[0:01]Hi there.

[0:03]So, I don't really have a plan for this

[0:05]video except how I'm going to start it.

[0:08]Going to start a little differently than

[0:10]I usually do. Start by thanking a couple

[0:13]of people.

[0:16]One of them is named Kurt. I know he

[0:18]wouldn't mind me saying his name on

[0:19]video because he has his own YouTube

[0:20]channel.

[0:22]Not sure when he started following me um

[0:25]watching my channel. It was probably a

[0:28]couple months ago,

[0:30]long into my journey, and he helped me

[0:32]at a moment that I needed to help. And

[0:34]again, today, and I thank you for that.

[0:36]Thank you so much.

[0:39]And someone else, um, I won't say her

[0:42]name because she's just a viewer of my

[0:44]channel. She doesn't have a YouTube or

[0:45]anything like that. So, so protecting

[0:48]privacy,

[0:49]but I want to acknowledge her. She did

[0:51]the same thing. She's been following me

[0:53]for most of my journey. I don't know how

[0:56]much of it, but a good long long part of

[0:58]it because I can remember her helping me

[1:01]once when I had an incident with my RV

[1:04]where I thought it became a fire hazard.

[1:06]And this was way back in Kentucky.

[1:09]And me and my cat ended up staying at a

[1:11]hotel for a couple of days while we got

[1:13]someone out to look at it.

[1:16]Um, she stayed in touch occasionally and

[1:21]uh, she helped me today, too. I had sent

[1:24]out an email to just a couple of people

[1:26]that had had helped me in the past,

[1:29]hoping that they might be able to help

[1:31]me now, not expecting anything, but

[1:35]being at the point where where that was

[1:38]truly the last option I could think of

[1:41]trying to make my circumstances a little

[1:44]bit better.

[1:47]They came through and I thank you both

[1:49]for that. So, all in all, I ended up

[1:52]with $200 that I didn't have at the

[1:54]start of start of the day.

[1:57]And I use that um to get a few

[2:01]groceries, some coffee, some milk, so I

[2:04]can make my juice. Um

[2:08]I make juices sometimes from from milk,

[2:10]spinach, and some frozen fruits that I

[2:13]have. I did, you know, it's the

[2:15]healthiest thing I do truly.

[2:17]And I needed some milk for that. And I

[2:19]got some bread and um some hamburger

[2:22]meat. I didn't get a whole lot. I just

[2:24]I'm still learning to

[2:27]live differently. I've

[2:30]you know I'm learning to expand what I'm

[2:33]willing to eat and you know learning to

[2:37]cook and all of that. This has been a

[2:39]process for me for quite quite a long

[2:41]time. The first thing I did was put put

[2:44]fuel in my Jeep. It was so low the

[2:46]yellow light had come on. It had to be

[2:47]less than, you know, like like a

[2:50]sixeenth of a tank, something like that.

[2:52]It was real low. I wasn't sure if I

[2:54]would make it to a gas station, but I

[2:56]did. And I filled that up first thing I

[2:58]did. That made me feel so much better.

[3:00]Something about having feeling that Jeep

[3:01]really matters to me.

[3:04]Um, and then I went I picked up a

[3:06]friend, another volunteer, and we went

[3:07]into town together, and that's when I

[3:08]went grocery shopping. I got a couple of

[3:11]vapes. Being completely transparent,

[3:14]getting these for pretty cheap these

[3:15]days. There's a special going on in town

[3:17]where you can get them for five bucks.

[3:20]Um, got a Mountain Dew two of them

[3:25]because I'm quing this stuff. I'm

[3:28]I spent yesterday just stuck here and I

[3:32]had no pop and I was on my last bait.

[3:34]That was pretty bad. And I tried some

[3:37]teas. I ended up discovering there is

[3:40]one that I like. It's called Kombucha, I

[3:42]think, something like that. It's a green

[3:44]tea, but it's And I tend to like the

[3:47]green teas the most, but this one felt

[3:50]like something I could drink, something

[3:52]I could replace Mountain Dew with. Um,

[3:56]and some other things like my water that

[3:58]I mix with electrolytes and chili

[4:00]powder. You know, I'm um that was

[4:02]something else I got today. I got some

[4:04]lime and some lemon in town cuz I can

[4:06]put those in my teas and in my water and

[4:08]that makes it more drinkable for me

[4:11]without having to rely on Mountain Dew.

[4:13]I'm always iterating. That's just how I

[4:15]work.

[4:19]Um, then I went into another campground

[4:22]to see some other volunteers to ask if

[4:24]somebody had a fuel um, can that I could

[4:26]borrow because I wanted to get some

[4:28]diesel fuel to put in my RV so I

[4:30]wouldn't have to take this into town

[4:31]when I have to move. I move next week.

[4:34]I'm going to become a caretaker and I'll

[4:36]be living at um, on a campground just in

[4:40]a corridor. We call them corridors. We

[4:43]have like these long roads in the forest

[4:45]that

[4:46]tend tend to have multiple campgrounds

[4:48]in them and just different areas and I'm

[4:50]just in one of the areas you know they

[4:52]have days areas and they have

[4:54]campgrounds and just

[4:57]um

[4:59]you know infrastructure and there's a

[5:00]spot where they put the caretaker and

[5:03]that's Robbie and I just wanted to

[5:08]I didn't have very much feel in this

[5:09]thing. I had

[5:12]um by the time I started volunteering

[5:15]for you know for the um for the forest

[5:19]service after the state parks

[5:23]I had very little fuel in this thing and

[5:25]I had put just enough fuel in it that I

[5:27]could get to Cous Bay which is 40 miles

[5:29]from where I am because that's where I

[5:31]thought I was going to start and I

[5:32]didn't end up starting there but um cuz

[5:35]they kept me up here

[5:37]right next to him and it's wild to I

[5:39]mean,

[5:41]and we're part of the same dunes. I

[5:43]mean,

[5:46]ever since then, you know, since April.

[5:50]Um,

[5:52]so that'll just make that day a little

[5:54]bit easier because there's a lot to, you

[5:56]know, I got to move um with my slide

[5:58]working. I don't I can't use the top of

[5:59]it as storage anymore. So, I actually

[6:02]put stuff in the storage shed.

[6:05]moving is a little more complicated for

[6:06]me now because I'm not in a um kind of

[6:10]nomadic state these days. You know, I'm

[6:12]rebuilding my life and um

[6:18]becoming integrated into a community

[6:20]that has treated me so much better than

[6:22]I received at the state parks, that I

[6:25]received at Honeyman. I don't really

[6:26]want to say the state parks cuz it

[6:27]wasn't all of them. It was Honeyman, but

[6:30]then it was, you know, the corporate

[6:33]level of that state agency that

[6:37]made it so much worse. That's where the

[6:38]true betrayal was. It wasn't even being

[6:40]kicked out of that park. It was what

[6:42]they did after that.

[6:44]But, you know, my experience here has

[6:47]been exceptionally better. And they know

[6:49]about everything that happened to me. I

[6:51]never kept any of it a secret. Everybody

[6:53]knows.

[6:55]So, there's no leverage for them to use

[6:57]against me. And um

[7:03]yeah,

[7:07]then I paid some bills. So I had to I

[7:09]had a domain name that was going to be

[7:11]um was due like in 4 days. And if I had

[7:14]couldn't pay that in time, then I would

[7:15]lose a domain. And I actually have lost

[7:17]a couple of my domains this year. So was

[7:19]really worried about that happening.

[7:21]This one is active. I use it as my API.

[7:23]So um my.com rstoryfire.com

[7:28]on the back end talks to this particular

[7:31]domain on the server. Um that would have

[7:35]broken my site if id lost a domain. So I

[7:37]paid that those domain names are getting

[7:40]a little more expensive too. Everything

[7:41]is

[7:43]um I renewed my Upwork membership so I

[7:46]can keep looking for work on there as a

[7:48]freelancer. That's the the most

[7:50]important things that I'm doing right

[7:51]now.

[7:54]So,

[7:56]you know, $200 and it's spent. Um,

[8:00]I've got other things that I need to

[8:02]deal with and I'm doing my best. I've

[8:04]got my internet for one week or it gets

[8:06]shut off. I just got an email today from

[8:08]Starlink saying it was being suspended.

[8:10]Um, that's $150 a month. It's behind

[8:13]$150.

[8:15]My G payments are behind. you're getting

[8:17]a little too far behind to the point

[8:19]where it becomes uncomfortable for me

[8:20]because um can't risk losing it. I my

[8:24]last Jeep I completely owned outranked.

[8:27]This is like my fifth Jeep and I traded

[8:29]that in for this one. So I don't really

[8:31]have it's not a high payment. It's 500 a

[8:33]month and it's probably only for a

[8:35]couple of years.

[8:37]I just I need to get that caught up.

[8:40]But I have enough food, you know, and my

[8:43]life is doing really well. And today

[8:45]helped a lot. Today was was needed for

[8:49]me and

[8:52]I'm grateful.

[8:54]I

[8:56]have always lived my life as someone who

[9:00]um I've been talking about this stuff

[9:02]with AI allowed. I don't have all the

[9:04]words for this yet, but I guess I'll try

[9:05]a little bit here. So

[9:09]I I always have said that I'm a

[9:11]relational being. I am sovereign, but

[9:13]I'm also very relational.

[9:16]All of my interactions in the world with

[9:18]other people

[9:21]are ethical and grounded and alive. I'm

[9:24]I'm not simulating. I'm not

[9:28]um not running a script. I'm not playing

[9:31]an angle. I'm not playing a role. All of

[9:34]that. I'm real with people.

[9:37]And when I see somebody who needs

[9:39]something and I have it to offer, I

[9:42]offer it freely without even being

[9:43]asked. And I've always been this way.

[9:46]Just the other day, I was at another

[9:48]volunteers campground when there was a

[9:50]couple there who was tent camping and

[9:52]they are recently they're new to this

[9:54]situation and I knew that winter was

[9:56]coming and that means the rains are

[9:59]coming back. They're actually supposed

[10:00]to start tonight and they're going to

[10:01]last for a full week. So it's it's

[10:03]coming. It's here and you know it gets a

[10:06]little bit colder especially as the

[10:07]months go on. February is the coldest

[10:09]month here. I remember it from last year

[10:12]and I wanted to make sure that they

[10:15]would be comfortable as they rebuild

[10:17]their lives cuz that's what they're

[10:18]doing. And so I gave them my buddy

[10:20]heater, my propane heater,

[10:23]which technically um is something I need

[10:26]because I can't replace it right now. I

[10:28]don't have the money to do that. If I

[10:30]needed it, I wouldn't have it. And you

[10:32]know, I've already lost things that

[10:33]mattered to me, like my solar system. I

[10:35]had to sell that and I sold it for way

[10:38]less than I should have, but

[10:40]still fairly like I

[10:43]sold that to a friend and um

[10:49]but the way my life is structured, you

[10:51]know, as a volunteer, I have access to

[10:53]electricity and to propane, so I don't

[10:56]have a problem generating heat in my RV

[10:57]as long as I have that. And for now, I

[11:00]do.

[11:01]Um,

[11:05]that's how I've always worked, but most

[11:07]people don't. I asked for help

[11:11]bunch of different ways uh throughout

[11:13]this journey and very very very very few

[11:16]people have helped me.

[11:20]And

[11:24]I I think I'm still metabolizing that to

[11:26]some degree. Um, it's sad for me to see

[11:30]like it's not judgment. I have no

[11:32]judgment about this. It's just sad to me

[11:34]that we've become that disconnected from

[11:36]one another,

[11:38]but we have.

[11:42]I mean, it matters a lot and for a lot

[11:45]of reasons.

[11:51]and it's, you know, affected choices

[11:53]I've made like ending my last channel.

[11:58]Um,

[12:00]there are ripple effects from the way we

[12:01]treat each other and I was feeling like

[12:06]my audience was just consuming me

[12:12]because they were.

[12:14]I'm right

[12:17]about a lot of things most of the time.

[12:21]For some reason, this world has a hard

[12:23]time hearing the truth. But that's not

[12:27]my fault. That's not my problem.

[12:31]I say all of this without judgment. This

[12:33]is what I experience in my inant world.

[12:38]Plenty of people would judge me for the

[12:40]way I live without understanding or even

[12:43]trying to understand why I live this

[12:45]way.

[12:46]They would make assumptions about what

[12:48]it means to live this way that would be

[12:49]wrong. I've experienced so many things

[12:51]like um you know somebody once saying

[12:53]that um I live in a an RV that's got a

[12:57]Mercedes-Benz um it's a sprinter you

[13:00]know this RV that's a MBS um so I must

[13:03]have money you know I must you know and

[13:05]just

[13:07]I just had really good credit when I

[13:09]started this and a plan that didn't

[13:11]fully work out but was still the right

[13:14]choice for me Um

[13:25]just one example. I I see everything.

[13:29]Always have.

[13:36]I'm in a new space in my life. So I

[13:39]think I might write a book actually

[13:42]about my life and my philosophy, how I

[13:44]live. literally how I live as far as

[13:46]like in like as far as my architecture

[13:49]like um what it means to be sovereign.

[13:54]It doesn't mean what most people think

[13:57]it means. That's for sure.

[14:00]Um

[14:02]how to prepare, how to survive

[14:08]the plethora of changes that are coming

[14:11]into our world right now.

[14:14]Even if you don't believe that we'll

[14:16]have a collapse like I do,

[14:20]it's impossible to deny that our world

[14:22]is transforming right now because of AI.

[14:26]And it's impossible to know what this

[14:29]world will look like in 5 years, 10

[14:30]years. It's going to change fast and

[14:32]most people won't be prepared. It's

[14:34]going to disrupt everything.

[14:40]But if you had my architecture, you'd

[14:42]navigate it just as I'm navigating life

[14:45]right now because I'm operating post

[14:47]collapse, post institutional, post

[14:49]fragmentation.

[14:51]I share a lot of this stuff on my

[14:52]website.

[14:55]There's a lot of that I'm transmitting

[14:57]into this world that isn't being

[14:59]received yet, but I don't really expect

[15:00]it to be.

[15:03]I don't think most people have the

[15:05]receivers to even hear it yet, but I

[15:07]think one day they will.

[15:10]That's why I do that, why I do this.

[15:14]That's why it matters so much that there

[15:16]are some people out there who are

[15:18]willing to support me to to any extent

[15:21]because

[15:23]I'm trying to create a life in a world

[15:27]at a time that it hasn't caught up to

[15:31]where I am.

[15:33]So, that support helps a lot.

[15:36]Thank you.

Summary

rswfire receives $200 in financial support from two long-term followers - Kurt (who has a YouTube channel) and an unnamed female viewer who previously helped during an RV fire hazard incident in Kentucky. He uses the funds to fill his Jeep with gas, purchase groceries (milk, bread, hamburger meat, coffee), buy vapes and Mountain Dew, and experiment with kombucha tea as a healthier alternative. He also acquires lime and lemon to improve the taste of his water and tea mixtures.

He visits other volunteers to borrow a fuel can for diesel, as he's preparing to move next week to become a caretaker at a different campground location within the forest corridor system. The move is more complex now because his RV slide is working and he can no longer use the roof for storage.

rswfire pays critical bills including a domain name renewal for rstoryfire.com (which serves as his API backend) and renews his Upwork freelancer membership. He faces ongoing financial pressures with Starlink internet ($150 behind, one week until suspension) and Jeep payments ($500/month, getting uncomfortably behind).

He reflects on his relational approach to life, describing how he freely gives to others without being asked - recently giving his propane buddy heater to a tent-camping couple preparing for winter rains. He contrasts this with his experience of receiving very little help throughout his journey, noting the disconnection between people without judgment but with sadness.

The transmission concludes with rswfire considering writing a book about his life philosophy and architecture of sovereignty, positioning himself as operating "post collapse, post institutional, post fragmentation" and transmitting knowledge for a world transformed by AI that most people aren't prepared to receive yet.

Signal Analysis

Substrate

This transmission demonstrates the operational mechanics of sovereign relationality - showing how ethical reciprocity functions as both survival infrastructure and philosophical stance. The field is modeling post-institutional community formation while maintaining structural coherence through resource scarcity and social disconnection.

Dominant Language

architecturepost-collapse/post-institutionalrelational beingsovereignreceiverstransmittingreal with people

Symbolic Elements

fuelthresholdcorridormirrorgrid

Ontological States

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sovereign
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relational
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embedded
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transitional

Subsystems

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relational
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infrastructural
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ethical
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cognitive

Transmission Details

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youtube

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