Ever wondered what $20 million looks like hidden underneath a mattress? Well, the US Attorney’s Office in Boston has you covered.

Federal officials posted a picture of the jaw-dropping scene on Twitter Monday, just weeks after uncovering the cash during a money laundering bust related to TelexFree Inc.’s $3 billion global fraud case.

“Photo of $20M seized in box spring following arrest of Brazilian national in scheme to launder proceeds of TelexFree,” the prosecutors’ office tweeted, along with the photo.

The image stems from a search conducted on Jan. 4 inside the Westborough, Mass. apartment of Cleber Rene Rizerio Rocha, who was charged in a criminal complaint with one count of conspiring to commit money laundering in connection to the alleged pyramid scheme involving TelexFree.

According to the complaint, the internet phone service company ripped off about half of their participants, or roughly 1 million people across the world.

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Money sure is  important to people. Currency in one form or another has always been important. Sea shells to some indigenous tribes. Gold. Silver. Horses. Goats. Slaves. Just about anything of substance is  valued as  a form of currency.

I hate gold just as I  hate money, though the  game of ownership is fun. Give me gold  and I’ll ‘sell’ it for copper. Give me  copper and I’ll make  something out of it.  Give me a slave and  I’d have someone to talk to, (just kidding,  slavery is wrong in any form).

Sure, a person needs currency to survive in this world if they want to use cell phones,  computers, cars, etc… and therein lays the desire to have money.

It is fun to study societies living entirely off the land. To see how they interact with each other. Australia  is rich in that regard. Of course as the modern world completely chokes this world it is harder and harder to find people who are born of the world, are the world, and die. Sad.

Today the Sun catches my attention. Today I get to think of how magnificent the body near this planet  is so giving, so constant, so real. There is no cost in finding the sun. It is reliable, enjoyable, and wonderful. Today I found the sun, and it makes me smile.