More photos are added to DuGBuGoffice!

More photos are added along with my cat from 1988. He world purr and meow at the same time. Respect to Prophet my cat!

Photos - https://goo.gl/photos/ZXoDMdNenWwdytJ17

Prophet - https://app.box.com/s/vh0htnoqjtod7wb7m3xd0z0tfdnmhyfo

Loving memory of my partner!

A loved one of mine has passed away from it. We been together a long time 20+ years but also know it's a hard disease that is long running also. Life is short, live now! Please donate to any good Alzheimer's fund! Please plant roses or clematis in her name Ulery, those where her favorite!

https://www.alz.org

https://www.charitynavigator.org/discover-charities/best-charities/alzheimers-awareness

 

A song she said was her song to me. "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing." And she ended up with Alzheimer's! We did talk about that once like she wanted it played at her funeral but only if she didn't die of Alzheimer's or got that bad. She would see it being the sarcasm, joke like that she would do time to time. But no!

Accepting the Wife’s Boyfriend!

  

A wife having a lover is really not a bad thing being the point is, it should clause calmness aimed long term. I hate short term relationships so my mindset is long term. Nothing worse than being a married woman's lover only for to snap out of her midlife crisis embarrassed about how she was acting telling you to go. Never happened to me would but more likely I would be holding onto her leg begging her to stay but the point is to accept each other for the better. 

A wife's lover is not about the sex. That would be her will not her husband or her lovers will coming naturally when that time comes if it does. The wife does not want another kid and cost these days. Unless she does then, me I would be willing for a love child, that's ok because life is short to not accept walking through the disarray of life unknown together to the light of a new day together!

~~~~One misconception about polyamory is that it’s just an excuse for promiscuity or infidelity. This assumption couldn’t be further from the truth; in fact, transparency and trust are cornerstones for maintaining healthy non-monogamous relationships. Another widespread myth is that people who choose this way of life are incapable of committing to one person or forming deep emotional connections with their partners. In reality, most polyamorous individuals maintain strong bonds with each partner while appreciating different aspects of their personalities and sharing unique experiences together.

Overcoming jealousy and insecurity can be a daunting task, especially when it comes to non-monogamous relationships. It’s important to recognize that these feelings are normal and valid, but they don’t have to control your relationship. One way to address jealousy is through open and honest communication with your partner(s). Expressing your concerns and fears can lead to understanding rather than resentment.

Another helpful strategy is identifying the root cause of your jealousy or insecurity. This may require some self-reflection and critical thinking, as oftentimes, our insecurities stem from past experiences or societal norms. By recognizing these underlying factors, you can begin to take steps toward addressing them head-on. For example, if you feel jealous of your wife’s boyfriend because you think he’s “better” in some way, remind yourself that comparisons are not productive or fair. Instead, focus on building trust and intimacy within your own relationship with her.

It’s also important to establish clear boundaries with all parties involved in the non-monogamous relationship. This ensures everyone is aware of what is acceptable behavior and what crosses a line for each individual involved. These boundaries should be revisited regularly as needs or preferences change over time. In navigating these complex dynamics, remember that vulnerability is key – allowing yourself to express emotions without fear of judgment fosters deeper connections with those around us. https://www.unfinishedman.com/my-journey-to-polyamory-how-i-learned-to-accept-my-wifes-boyfriend

Can't afford job skills training bad consuming burn and grow - Homelessness rose to 40!

Low is low, it's not sustainable to expect a growing labor force ready for the future with job skill training for the job living in box in the woods in the winter. What are their retirement going to look like in the future what jobs do they have now, working low while being homeless! Notes something has to go up as the cut government spending thinking only makes everything bad for all. It's burnt and is time to grow!

Burn and grow something has to be fixed sometime. There was a lady I talked to in a store once. I was interested in her but my time poverty etc put me not being able to hangout with her. Said her daughter lived in Houston TX and her rent jumped so much she moved back in with them in another state. Much the same in life like the time I was only living on 21% of my income rent, car payment insurance etc added up the rest! I also unplugged the refrigerator to save money also. But now is worse than that! Much like making rural wages but living in a urban city not able to afford much moving in with your parents to save money making no record of your being no internet, water bill nothing in your name like sweeping cash under the rug so really you are homeless because you don't have a place of your own! Life today! Not sure what that does to your credit report dropping of the earth like that. Takes money to have credit you have to buy something!

~~~~A recent report the Department of Housing and Urban Development prepared for Congress confirms what so many of us see or experience in our communities: The number of people without homes has reached record levels. According to that report, the 2023 “Point-in-Time (PIT) count” showed the highest number of people experiencing homelessness on a single night since reporting began in 2007. Since last year, the number of people experiencing homelessness increased by 12%. A full 40% of people experiencing homelessness were unsheltered, living “in places not meant for human habitation.”

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This is a tribute to my college friend that passed away recently.

Like what I learned in college. "Feel free to make a contribution to society, any help is wanted especially if it's not wanted what a gift to humanity that is!" 

"Oahspe emphasized service to others; each person is graded according to service to others. Each individual, group and nation is either in ascension or descension; sooner or later, all ascend, rising in grade. The higher one's grade, the better are the conditions within one's own soul, and the better the place awaiting one in heaven." 

This is a tribute to my college friend that passed away recently. He was an ESL teacher in Korea along with tutoring here in the states. He also wrote some short stories along with being into SIFI. I spent a lot of time with him in college. He had a hard time with his health etc. The afterlife would fascinate him would seem as a better place! Immersion!

https://walmartramen.blogspot.com/2016/01/unknown.html

How the Black Death made life better like today

 Every plague has a rebound. "Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end." The things going on today is nothing new. That light comes on sometime. Peasants were the first ones to die in a plague so it's best to not be a peasant. "Peasants were the poorest people in the medieval era and lived primarily in the country or small villages. Serfs were the poorest of the peasant class, and were a type of slave. Lords owned the serfs who lived on their lands." Time to get brought up!

~~~~Plagues Precede Rebirths: Chaos Precedes Order (and Chaos again)

The bubonic plague or “The Black Death” of 1347 to 1351 was one of the deadliest epidemics in human history. The disease killed an estimated 75 million people, including up to 50% of the European populations affected. It was called the Black Death because of the black spots the bubonic form of the plague caused on the skin.

The plague, which was almost always fatal, spread most rapidly in cities, where people were in close contact with each other. To avoid the disease, those wealthy enough to leave the city fled to the country. Due to the sudden shortage of labour, innovations in production methods and farming took place. This is reminiscent of the current pandemic, in the absence of physical presence, innovations and acceleration of digitisation has swept through numerous industries. Digital connectivity (Zoom), online shopping (Amazon) and logistics (drone delivery: Manna Aero) have all benefited from the shift in the tectonic plates of disruption.

Of course, the Black Death, like Covid-19 was only part of the chaos of that period. The crisis of the late Middle Ages was a series of disasters in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries beginning with the great famine, including climactic upheavals of warm periods and mini ice ages and war and political instabilities and religious upheavals.

If the Black Death was a symbol of the chaos of that period, it was followed by one of the most magnificent times in human history. The Renaissance marked a transition from the Middle Ages to a time of great social change. The word Renaissance is a French word that means Rebirth. Sometimes, the systems that prevailed needed to self destruct to be reborn and this is what appeared to have happened then and perhaps now. As Picasso said, “Every act of creation begins with an act of destruction.” This creative destruction must be accompanies by a shift in consciousness, from one of competition to one of collaboration. This is what happened during the Renaissance, what our guest on the Innovation show, John Rogers, the author of “The Renaissance Campaign” calls mixed tables. https://theinnovationshow.io/plagues-precede-rebirths-chaos-precedes-order-and-chaos-again

~~~~How the Black Death made life better

In its entry on the Black Death, the 1347–50 outbreak of bubonic plague that killed at least a third of Europe’s population, this chronicle from the English city of Rochester includes among its harrowing details a seemingly trivial lament: Aristocrats and high clergymen not only had to pay triple wages to those toiling in their fields, but, even worse, they themselves had to perform manual labor. Curiously, the documentary record, which provides ample evidence that workers did demand and receive higher wages (on which more below), contains in contrast scant evidence that “worthies” ever dirtied their hands with fieldwork. Even if (or especially as) phantasms, however, these sickle-wielding lords reveal the importance of imagined possibilities in shaping pandemic responses.

The eminent refused to take on menial roles, not because they could not perform these “unskilled” tasks, but because to do so would be unworthy of their social rank, and it was unthinkable to abandon that social and labor hierarchy. Farm work was peasant work, whether performed by serfs bound to a particular manor, tenant farmers or wage laborers hired by the year or the season. But the staggering mortality of the Black Death reduced this previously sufficient peasant population sharply enough to create a severe labor shortage.

What happened next has been the subject of an enormous amount of scholarship, particularly in the case of England, where the large extant body of sources such as chronicles, legislation, court cases and manorial account books provides rich material for studying the social and economic changes in the wake of the Black Death. Scholars disagree about how and how much things changed, but they share a tendency to describe these changes in oddly passive terms: wages rose, inequality decreased, feudalism ended.

Yet there was a great deal of deliberate (in)action behind these developments. Rather than supply some of the needed labor themselves, landowners turned to solutions that might produce the kind of world they were capable of imagining. In England they created first the Ordinance (1349) and then the Statute (1351) of Labourers, which froze wages at pre-plague levels, compelled workers not otherwise engaged in fixed, long-term employment into year-long contracts with the first employer who demanded it, and established penalties to ensure compliance. As Jane Whittle has noted, in putting their efforts behind the control of waged labor rather than the retrenchment of (already declining) serfdom, rural landowners sought a “thinkable” resolution to this impasse: They would use the existing market for labor, but control the terms of exchange.

Many peasants, however, refused to play their assigned role of deferential wage earner. Court records from 1352, for example, show that “Edward le Taillour of Wootton, employee of the prior and convent of Bradenstoke … left his employment before the feast of St Nicholas [6 December] without permission or reasonable cause, contrary to statute,” and that John Death of Wroughton demanded an “excess” of six shillings eightpence for reaping John Lovel’s corn. Recalcitrant laborers remained a problem in 1374, when “John Fisshere, William Theker, William Furnes, John Dyker, Gilbert Chyld, Alan Tasker, Stephen Lang, John Hardlad, Cecilia Ka, Joan daughter of Henry Couper, Matillis de Ely, Alice wife of Simon Souter, all of Bardney, labourers, refused to work [for the Abbot of Bardney at the stipulated wages], and on the same day they left the town to get higher wages elsewhere, in contempt of the king and contrary to statute.” https://history.wustl.edu/news/how-black-death-made-life-better