It was exactly 10 years ago when I wrote the first article of my life – Why We Need Ron Paul. Lew Rockwell published it on his site. It no longer comes up in any internet search. I guess it only resides on my hard drive at this point. It’s been a long hard journey. My articles have been banned from Seeking Alpha, Financial Sense, Op Ed News, Nolan Chart and even Lew Rockwell for awhile. I’ve had three versions of TBP, with a falling out with the first webmaster and a massive denial of service attack bringing down version 2. TMWNN and Mike Krieger saved TBP and TMWNN continues to protect it on a daily basis.
I certainly didn’t start doing this to make money, even though many people in the “business” have tried to convince me to monetize the site. Instead I do some half assed ads when ad companies approach me by email and do an occasional post for donations. The ad revenue is extremely volatile, with them doing well for awhile and then crashing. I’ve been banned from the biggest ad companies – Google, Amazon and Yahoo. It seems they don’t like what I have to say. The donations come in from a surprisingly few number of people. We have about 20 automatic monthly contributors and then a couple dozen extremely generous readers who account for about 80% of the donations.
Do I day dream about throwing in the towel on the daily grind and generating enough income from TBP to support my family? Yes I do. But that is not in the cards for at least five more years with the current configuration of TBP. I don’t want to change what has made TBP appealing to many people. When I started TBP, it was more about me, and having a place where my articles weren’t censored or banned. It has evolved over the years to be a place where many other voices can be heard. I see it as a Cheers like place where witty banter, wise cracks, humor, and intelligent outcasts can gather and give their views. I think it has developed into an interesting community with multiple points of view.
My writing output has declined precipitously due to a number of factors. First, after writing non-stop for ten years, I’m a little burnt out. Some may understand, but most won’t. I work at a fairly stressful job thirty miles from my home. I spend nine or so hours in the office and two to three hours commuting. I get up an hour early so I can get TBP up and running every morning – 365 days per year. This past year at work has been extremely stressful due to new boss related stuff. Hopefully, that will resolve itself over the next few months. I’ve also been stressed by serious family medical issues, which are ongoing.
Despite my personal and family issues, I feel obligated to generate 15 to 20 daily posts from somewhere. The readers expect to be entertained. Many regulars and contributors can just go away for as long as they want when burnout strikes or personal issues take precedence. I have to keep the site being interesting no matter how I feel, what is happening in my personal life, or when I’m on vacation like last week. I don’t think there is any other site run by one person who has a full time other job and is able to generate as much content on a daily basis. Sites like Zero Hedge are run full-time with multiple people. Other sites post one article a day or a couple per week.
I hope to get back to writing more as my job situation improves and family issues get under control. I’m not sure whether the funk I’ve been in is due to burnout, boredom, or my belief that this Fourth Turning is going to play out the way it is going to play out, no matter what I say or argue about. I knew that Libertarian minded people like myself would not be happy with the course of a Fourth Turning, since government always invokes more control and convinces the masses to give them more power. As a fact based person, the outrageous recklessness of our leaders in spending, rigging markets, and pushing for war does not make me supportive of anyone running the show today. I’m not a big fan of hope and happy talk. This will not end well.
So that is my long winded introduction to my quarterly TBP beg-a-thon. If you can spare some change, you can use the Paypal button (until they ban me) on the side, or send something to my PO Box. If you don’t have any spare change, you can always click on the booby ads or the MyFinance ads. Or you can just keep coming here on a daily basis for free. I’m cool with that. I’ll keep the lights on and try to keep you entertained.
TBP – Where Everyone Knows Your Alias
Teach me how ter run this shit and I’ll be happy ter help out. Me n Hardscrambled will cover yer admen shit so yer kin finally get that hemroid cauterized er whatever it is. Yer free ter go Admenstruater and git yer personal life back under control, and everthing will be awesome when yer ass gits back.
Come on people. An appeal that makes Bw show up has got to be worth a few Benjamins.
BW, what kind of lessons do you want? He put the job description in the prefatory remarks. Can you handle it?
Are you a q-baller? Qewpies need not apply.
She’s a lobster
Shimmy on down, Dagandy.
I am waiting to see the big posters, not invited guest postings, step up for their use of their personal sounding board. How much are these people giving a few bucks for their pulpit?
STUCKEY
UNCOLA
Z MAN
DENNIS MILLER
INDENTURED SERVANT
Just to name a few!
It is amazing watching this web 2.0 panopticon evolve exactly as predicted. Soon you wont even be able to find any type of conspiracy video on youtube. They might still be uploaded to other video sites that arent locked down yet, but without sites like this you’d never hear about them. They are so close to locking everything down….
Sending my quarterly infusion. Thanks for keeping things rolling!
da check is in da mail. My day is All About The Burning Platform as sung by Meghan Trainor
BTW, is it me or does anyone else have the issue of no notification of additional posts on a subject personally commented on. Yes, I check the box Notify me of follow-up comments by email.
It is most likely something on my end. My ‘puter does strange things. [HSF how is that keystroke logging playing out?]
P.R. of Keyser, I have problems, too. Every time I post a comment, I get knocked out of the page altogether with an error message, but the comment does post. I have to delete history before I can get back to the page.
I sent my C note via cc. And this is a test. I redid some configs, to get rid of “400 bad request” and hopefully I will now get notifications of follow up comments . I am such a lame techie….
I just put 5 twenties in a stamped envelope addressed to you. No need to give banks and internet middlemen a share. It’ll go out today.
You’re a moran. You might as well throw the bills in the trash, why not say you put some bitcoin in there to avoid giving banks a share?
Why did I get 7 thumbs down? Do you morans routinely send cash through the mail?
Actually I do, and I’m the person you called a moran. Never had anything go astray. So glad you took the time to insult someone you don’t know for something that doesn’t concern you.
I’m a troll, it’s what I do. You do you, let me do me, ok?
“…let me do me…”
Is that a euphemism for jacking off?
Is your mind always in the trash, Rdawg?
Ahh . . . you. And here’s me, thinking, when did Iravani’s ban expire?
Vacuum seal it with FoodSaver with the cinnamony granola. LGR? The rabbit has not left the farm. Leaving Paradise can be impossible to do.
THERE’s my buddy. No hurry. Take care of business and Nick first, and don’t neglect them K9’s either. They look like good buddies, too. If I was hunkered down in Paradise, I wouldn’t be in any rush to navigate to a courier ‘in town’ either.
By the dashboard lights, or by the light of day.
Soon you’ll be doing 12 oz. curls, to tone up your arms a bit more. Get ’em cold, and enjoy. You can compare notes with Avalon. Send feedback, on those, and on the other product included, not necessarily created for preppers, but would probably be a nice thing to have during any mayhem period, especially after 2-3 days working in the field or hot sun, and the yearning for a nice hot shower and a sudsy body wash. The only thing I didn’t was jot down a short personal note, like I usually do, as it was a hectic Friday, scrambling around to cross stuff off the to do list, and I barely made it to the courier station under the wire of the closing bell.
There is a small envelope inside, with a touch more than what you requested.
As I’m keen on the connection, and if a few more days of waiting is required, well that’s OK by me. I’ll cue up Carly’s tune where Lips Jagger sings background, in anticipation of what’s to come.
I’ll be there in some denomination ASAP to add to the Quinn bin and nudge the meter higher. Hopefully, the contributions thus far have quenched and added to the mix with cheers.
Moron is the correct spelling.
I have no idea what a moran is?
Another Moran that has to be schooled. Go for it, guys.
They say if you don’t know what a moran is, it’s you.
Stick around Jaw and before long you will be spelling it that way too!
Hey Jim,
I’m not in the position to contribute dollars (fmshooter.com is a hobby website that currently generates zero income, which is fortunate because the domain/hosting fees are about $100/yr), but I’m honored to contribute articles from FMShooter and to be a part of the TBP community. Also, when I shop at Walmart, I try to click your referral link to slide a few bucks your way.
The burnout is definitely understood – I only write a few times a week, and it is a ton to keep up with. Life just gets in the way. Given your schedule, and the content on the site, I’d say you’ve done more than an admirable job of running TBP.
Hopefully one day we all make it rich enough to make this our day job, but we are fighting an uphill fight, as you pointed out with Google/Facebook/Amazon.
If you have any feedback on how to add donate links to FMShooter (in a more anonymous fashion) I am all ears.
You put an excellent product in front of the readers that I have shared with those in my life. Keep fighting the good fight – I’ll be with you every step of the way doing what I can to help.
Duane
Hi Duane
If you have a donation link on your site, please put it at the end of every one of your articles on TBP. I really appreciate your intellectual contributions to TBP.
#metoo
GayDandy, this is not girl’s night on TBP.
Okay, I’m a monthly donor again. It’s not much so don’t start looking at yachts or anything – maybe a rubber ducky for the tub.
Admin, if you would do me a solid and block that imbecile El Chen or whoever he claims to be now, (I suspect Sancho or El Goyo) I would give double. Still, I sent my two bits via snail mail today.
PS, Could you at least get rid of the Qew-balls? Just kidding, I love those idiots.
Man some people just can not be happy with 27 cents an hour………..
When it comes to checks I have one I keep in the breast pocket of an old shirt I never wear…so I don’t hurt myself…I call it the Barney Fife debt control program. So far so good.
I will visit the closest and my next visit to town the check will be in the snail mail!
Admin should not have to take more time to write to cajole his loyal readers to send some FRNs. I send a very measly $100 a year and I get hours and hours of entertaining and thought-provoking material to read from all sorts of wonderful authors and commenters. I estimate I spend a minimum of 15 hours a week on the site; for the year that works out to $ .13 per hour, which is cheap entertainment. Is that not quite a bargain? Anyone who gains pleasure and knowledge from TBP should add to the coffers while we still have access in these perilous days.
To the down voter: by all means do not send Admin one red cent. He’s damn lucky to have all us brainiacs read his paltry site.
It is criminal (like everything in America now) that the MSM get billions from the US Black Budget to spy on Americans and censor/silence Patriots who have to beg for bread. From the other end of things, the Elite give good jobs to the Useful Idiots while firing Patriots. It is no mystery to me why our Oligarchs hate the Russians (who tossed them out 20 years ago like the filthy Judeo-commie trash they are). We must do the same somehow or all of us will wind up slaves like the Russian people were under their Communist Oligarchs. This site is one of the few with intelligent people still free to speak (I’ve been banned every where else I’ve posted). I’ll send a check for $100 (sorry, the Wall Street Criminals have been holding my boats under water for years and I will probably die of old age before they can surface and my boats come in). If TBP is sunk and nothing like it surfaces, only one choice remains.
i’ve not received a single tbp article today–i pulled this off the sidebar of one of yesterday’s posts–
is it the same w/everybody or is something wrong w/my computer?
Did you forget to pay the electric or internet bill?
I am naturally paranoid but I blamed my not getting notification of new posts on a subject I commented on; I assumed it from my monkeying around to fix my “400 bad request” message.
Still no luck with it. The box is clicked below. So new test in place.
Test
That’s the exact same message I get when I post a comment and get knocked out of here.
And under that message “400 bad request,”it says, “Read Header or Cookie Too Large.”
So what do you do to fix that? I’m not a computer wiz.
testing 123
So, when I created this comment, I clicked on the subscribe checkbox. Comment was posted immediately, no 400 error, and I immediately received an email from wordpress.com asking me to confirm my desire to subscribe to the thread of comments. That email looks like this:
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Admin., even though I disagree vehemently with your anti-Israel & anti-Semitism and Stuckys screeds, I also believe in freedom of speech. I do enjoy Hardscrabble Farmer and Kurt Schlitz (I probably spelled that wrong), and your 30 Blocks Of Squalor articles. I guess a person has to take the good with the bad. I will be sending you $20 to your P. O. Box. Wish I could send more but I am a poor retiree. MGTOW!
Mustang Sally uses the fund-raiser as her own complaint dept. What’s wrong with Stucky screeds?
They are nonsensical and iconoclastic.
Stucky is not a millenial.
Cheers for figuring out, very quickly, the most important things to build an audience: lots of content and a consistent theme.
I disagree with a lot of what gets posted here, but I agree with others and wholeheartedly agree with the dynamic of free speech expressed.
Keep up the good fight.
Well , I’m finally working again after my recent health problems so I’ll be sending ” something ” to your P.O.box as soon as I can get These damn bills caught up.Thanks for all you do.
$1.29 incoming!
$14.88
I do not get the “subscribe” emails I normally receive.
Have I done something wrong?
It’s usually an adblocker or spam filter issue on your side.
My home address is 1488…really.
Articles?? I just come here for the booty shots….
Wife says… I see you are on your dreaming page again….
cheers
Keep up the good work and wish I could send some sheckles .. lint in the pockets when the month ends. 🙁
What would be the recommended contribution for a non-participating dayly drop by?
Daily.
$100
I send a few twenties plucked from the cash that came along with us when we left the metropolis of OKC for the suburbs of the sticks in the middle of podunk, nowhere. I usually include something that smells good. Like granola.
I’m sure the twenties in a notecard would be just as thoughtful and useful. Might not smell the same, but…
Remember the old grass mowers with the side mounted tanks? It was probably a Briggs and Stratton engine or some other small engine maker. In Summer, every week probably, the grass needed mowing, again. But, it sure beat the push powered mowers the had the spinning reels.
Anyways, the gas tank had a small vent hole in the top of the cap. Sometimes, depending of the vigor used in handling the machine, especially when the tank was full, a little gas would leak out and spill across the top of the tank in close proximity of the exhaust.
I didn’t give a ‘rat’s’. Let the sum bitch blow, I was having fun.
Barbed wire, big root, glass bottle? Pssssshit. Mow it down.
Park it over that Yeller Jacket’s nest, leave ‘er runnin’, go inside, have a beer.
TBP’s kinna like that and that’s why I like it.
I know I got more fun out of some of those old mowers than the cost of gas and oil, time sharpening blades, setting points, fixing a sheared timing key, plugs, setting the float, yadda yadda…
I also learned some lessons, some simple but fundamental.
Again, like TBP.
When I hit the PayPal button, I know I’ll get more than I paid.
Just like the old mower.
LOL, Grog I loved that comparison.
That was a great story and Visual Grog. Made me laugh..
I would give you a thumbs up, RiNS, but now my thumbs are missing. Oh, the misery.
Good gawd uh mighty what uh gaggle of halitosis breathin dipshitted mongreloids have gathered around Admen’s beggardly anus. I’m hopin he don’t drink some gawd dammed draino after readin what’s been diareared all over his plea ferry help.
Incoming shortly.
Sessions just fired McCabe too so there will be a little extra because I’m in a good mood.
Have a good evening and keep on keep’n on my friend.
I pledge one million dollars to this site. I can afford it. My employees can’t afford it because they’re not smart like me and thus deserve to be poor because God wills it.
As my old man told me: “Hate, fear, greed and envy make the world go ’round”.
You’ve got at least two of those covered.
No sex?
How’d you know?
Oh wait, you were referring to the saying…
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In my 25th year as a mechanical engineer, I can report that I have worked with many talented and skilled female drafter/designers. I have worked with exactly one skilled female engineer.
All the others I have come across were in supervisory/management roles, not technical.
It’s just the way it is.
Dawg
I know that those quotes are from Ladies that don’t work for MCM and are instead from some of the Brave Academics that pollute our Universities. But the pictures above. Is that Engineering outfit an all female run joint? Just curious.
I do find it hilarious that those twats think the fundamental truths of Math are some sort of gendered and racial construct. If this Engineering firm made it a policy to hire based on some quota instead of merit then they best hire a good lawyer. Best also for them to not worry so much now about color of skin or whether they are man or woman.
I am not an Engineer, but someone miscalculated a moment.
Looks like a New Age domino bridge held together with scotch tape. Reminds me of the Space Shuttle’s “O” Rings, the Twin Towers falling apart, Agenda 21 Sustainability Chock-a-Block 2X4 condos in California, Affirmative Action Diversity Quotas & Busing, Black Colleges & Government Student Loans, Medicaid & ObamaCare; Gun & Free Speech Control, etc: It’s Progressive so Nothing Can Go Wrong.
This was apparently intended to be a suspension bridge – but was improperly built. Usually, one builds the piers (supports), hangs and tightens the cables, then adds in the deck (walkway). If the story I heard was right, they built the supports, added the deck and then started hanging and tightening the cables. The deck, unable to support anything over its own weight, was not hanging from the cables at first; when they started tightening the cables, some broke and the misloaded / off-loaded deck failed.
It certainly didn’t help that the unfinished bridge was seeing pedestrian traffic before it was completed; nor that the guy that called in the cracks report left a message on a phone that was not answered until Friday, after the bridge failed. One failure after another; hope they learn from this. Anyone else see that report?
I didn’t see anything about pedestrian traffic, they didn’t have the other portion in place to complete the bridge. I also saw no mention of the Flores woman that YoBo dug up. He cites MCM but the news report mentions FIGG as the engineering firm.
The inspector reporting the crack in the pillar is a man. I believe this talk of a female engineers is BS. The only erection you can trust a woman with is less than a foot high, certainly not this size of a project.
The “Miami Herald” is reporting that both MCM and FIGG were working on the bridge.
FIGG subcontracted MCM. For FIGG (based in Tallahassee) this was a relatively small job. They built the Sunshine Skyway Bride, the upper expansion ( which also had a minor collapse, no injuries) of the Leroy Selmon Expressway in Tampa, FL and many other bridges globally. The Sunshine Skyway Bridge is a monumental concrete segmental bridge connecting Pinellas and Manatee counties in western FL – quite the bridge at just over 200 feet at the apex above the water. When all is said and done it looks as if the subcontractor is responsible for the failure at FIU, but FIGG will probably take more heat for not overseeing the project better, and for being too white of a company.
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the pic nkit posted of the sunshine skyway bridge is the replacement bridge for the one that was knocked down by a freighter–
during an early am blinding thunderstorm a freighter got blown into one of the main span supports,which resulted in the south bound lanes being taken out–
because of the severity of the storm,many drivers,including the driver of a fully loaded greyhound bus did not see the open space ahead and went over the edge into the water —
i don’t remember exactly but between 30/40 people died–
OK, Rob, time for me to roll up my pants legs. This and the shuttle o-rings can be called engineering failures, however, the twin towers were not felled by an engineering miscalculation. In fact, the Japanese engineer sacrificed some aesthetics appeal in favor of safety. You went full YoBo after that.
A bit of a stretch to get from what I said the the twin towers. But ya did. Come on man! Somebody didn’t properly calculate a moment. First off everyone here is talking out their ass. We don’t know what happened. Still Bad Math doesn’t discriminate.
It is either a design flaw or they failed to follow the proscribed procedure for erecting the bridge. That is why it fell down.
Probably why the SJW’s hate it so.. As for going full Yobo you got me there….whatever.
Briefly, Rob in skoch, I was addressing Rob Jr.
Just one more thing, if it was proscribed, they were right not to follow that procedure.
haha you’re right Varmit…
Wow, are there no men working there? Discrimination anyone? Lawsuit anyone?
I just read some of their comments next to their pictures. These women are idiots. How did they ever get in these jobs?
Because “academe” is completely under the control of idiots at every level.
If this infographic was made to suggest the bridge was built by affirmative-action academics and not by experienced civil and structural engineers, it’s doing a good job.
Another thumbs up that I can’t do at this time.
This is also not the first one of these things this company made that pancaked. Only the government would buy crap like this from sketchy operators.
Coke and Jamaican rum….Every day is a wonder .. each night is a lone one…
Are you drunk?
not yet…I’m pacing myself..
Admin, 2 Q’s:
What was the haul today?
Are we helping or hurting?
Idiocy is posting the same memes over and over and expecting different results. – Eisntein
Not helping. Got it.
Typical TBP’er if this place ever shut off the lights.
My thoughts on the FIU bridge that collapsed.
Looks like it failed the stress test. Why did they perform the stress test with cars and people under it? Did they want to see what would happen to the cars and people when it failed? This span could have been stress tested before it was put into place.
The way it fell it sure looks like the cables broke. And I wonder… were the cables stress tested before they were installed in the bridge also?
Something doesn’t add up here.
One news report I saw said the cables weren’t connected to the bridge yet, probably would be done a week later. Sounds pretty stupid to let people and vehicles travel under something that heavy and that long without the cables. After all, that’s what the cables are for.
Thx James for all that you do. Is there an e-mail address or other way for people to make article suggestions? If finding good articles for the site takes a lot of time isn’t that something that others can help with? I read widely and when I stumble across something that’s really interesting it’s nice to have ways to share it with others. For example, I thought the following was very good – https://www.sott.net/article/377588-Syrian-War-for-Dummies-Three-Versions
Anyway, some shekles are in the ether on their way to you.
Because you’re worth it!
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Mark, that chick is hot, kinda reminds me of my ex-GF.
Hi Jim – We have had a few differences (after all – if a “friend” can’t point out where he thinks you’ve gone “off track” – who can) but I truly appreciate what you do and will continue to be one of the TBP’s regular supporters. Best regards.
Fireside Chats with or without Agnes
By Agnes K. Quereton
My name is Agnes Quereton. I offer information up front about the family name for two reasons: it prevents your embarrassing attempts to pronounce the unexplainable and it makes me sound interesting. The name is Hungarian, therefore spelled wrong. Gypsy, or Roma ancestors immigrated in the late 1880s, passed themselves off as French by replacing K with Qu and turned Karatov into Quereton with emphasis on Ton to make it sound fancy. Now, it’s all up front: Cure a Ton and I might be an exotic gypsy dancer. Since my grandchildren say I am a hundred years old, it is also now funny.
I was directed to read an article here by a reader who follows your debate around the campfire. The article was “What TBP Means to Me,” which introduced me to this strange little familial cluster of unique personality types which interact fairly well considering fewer than a dozen have met face to face. There is a certain frankness and honesty that comes through, suggesting some of your readers, comment writers, contributing post writers and other members of the place are genuinely engaged in conversation and debate, with regular rude interruption, crosstalk, and sometimes pure genius which flashes on the flames and sputters out. For me, TBP replaces the crisp, unopened newspaper I loved to read with the morning coffee after the kids were at school decades ago, my husband at the shop and myself, queen of our world, in my flannel pajamas about to read the news, then turn to editorials if the headlines did not demand further investigation. But, instead of the tribune/daily/standard/news delivered to our doorstep, my routine now begins with the newest comments on the platform, checking to see if certain team members have commented. I suspect I am not alone in this sense of bonding one feels with the TBP community.
With museum curator background, I call myself an Anthropologist. Anthropologists study human interaction and societal development and how societies change. We also delve into why, though that is more the sociologist’s territory and they, like any territorial beast, do not give up territory easily. So, yes, I read Strauss and Howe and consider the idea of Fourth Turnings to be consistent with my own observations and conclusions drawn from reading voraciously most of my life. As an old lady with zero credentials, I pronounce TBP (and a few blogs and forums I’ve seen) to be on the frontier of a new kind of social group, the extended cyber-family.
Armchair Anthropologists like myself were women once known as Granny or Grandmama in many societies. An old granny, still alert, can always recognize the interactions between archetypes from one generation to the next, even if ignored in today’s anti-Woman climate.
You heard me: anti-Woman climate. I’m old enough to have witnessed what actually happened at the dawning of the Age of Aquarius. I saw a fascination with time and space become a grand misunderstanding of mankind’s relative power over his existence. Current strange behavior regarding womanhood and what it really “means” to be a woman, along with obsession with genitalia and mutilation of all things masculine and feminine can only lead to one thing: the obvious intentional sexualization of our children through mixed media training. It should have been obvious from the early years that Feminists were intent on destroying the most valuable product on earth: the human child produced as intended by Nature.
Babies should be born of sperm and egg, from man and woman to multiply in good times and to sustain population in lean conditions. That is just a biological fact, not a judgment on gender roles. A woman once played a very important role in that natural phenomena in both ideal and phenomenal situations. She carried it, birthed it and fed and nurtured it, and taught the child its role in the family. In most ancient societies, an old woman was revered for her long life and multiple generations she gathered around her. Those matriarchal societies are found in many Southwest Indian Tribes, most of which trek to the continent from Asia via Alaska or from South America, escaping Spanish invaders slaughtering pagans in the name of Christendom, which hitched a ride whilst looking for shorter trade routes to China.
There is something very appealing about trade with China. You do not hear much from or about Chinese women, do you? The recent prominence of the North Korean sister seems almost caricaturist, doesn’t it?
Back to your own little social network here:
I started reading a bit last fall and before I knew it, I’d made a couple of comments, using initials AKQ and hoping no one noticed me. Until now, no one has.
More than anything, Stucky’s heartfelt discussion of the end-of-life issues he is now juggling prompted this offering to Admin. With personal experience from the nursing home “trenches” while my sister battled dementia and wandered hallways looking for me, my heartstrings ache for the losses many of you have suffered and shared with the platform that burns. At the nursing home with my sister, I sat in the courtyard one day and listened to her tell me all about her childhood and sisters. I am glad she had good memories to play in that theater of her mind. I hope we all take the time to gather our memories and write the stories we hope to play when we wrap ourselves in pleasant dreams and set sail for Elysian Fields.
Women in my family claim the label of ancient woman proudly, with my husband’s clan from Hungary (Cure a Tons), making my having outlived everyone I ever wanted to not only exotic but amazing. Longevity is a mixed blessing in a modern world dismissive of the value of a lucid and healthy grandparent in the home as an unneeded inconvenience. Fortunately, almost all modern tragedies plague my family, so I’m a needed inconvenience. Being needed makes all the difference.
I hope this finds the right set of eyes. I will leave that to fate, my own grasp of how information transmits on this blog and a little bit of luck. If others in the community want to meet and talk to Agnes, they will do so. And if not, I will see you around as AKQ or not, as destiny dictates.
Admin, if you are interested in my idea for “shared story” please email me. Thanks.
Welcome aboard, Agnes. I absolutely loved that post and your talk on history and culture, especially woman’s place in society and how the old were revered and not socked away in old-folks homes.
When I was younger, I thought the 1960s were a repeat of the 1920s with the flappers and the wildness going on. After reading “The Fourth Turning” later in life, I understood the connection. And participating on TBP has widened my understanding, not just on the turnings, but on numerous topics. There are a lot of smart people here.
Thank you and I will be “introduced” as a guest soon, by someone around here. I think I will change this picture.
I love the way you write.
Please write some more.
Agnes
Your post, full of warmth and respect for womanhood, emulates gracefully the benefits of innocence. I appeal to you to post frequently, as children and youths deserve to live just as innocently and your ability to direct those listening is paragon.
This anti-woman world is Harsh and Cold. A website called Intellectual Takeout has posted articles about young adults who are called Book Virgins and rude youngsters who belittle their mothers in doctors offices bc they are playing games on their devices (their mothers are said to demonstrate so-called friendship instead of motherliness). The coldness of this anti-woman world has a border I would cheer to see shattered and dominated. Removing the exploiters from power who mislead children and youths, I support.
I am a working-class woman who happens to be a quiet INFJ.
Please post often about your experiences, wisdom and expectations, Agnes.
One time Admenstruater DP’d mah ass and he says very gawd dammed cryptic like ‘BW is TBP’s Q’ and I said what in holy hell is yer ass smokin cuz I need some. Then it hit me, and I run ter the shitter but I was too late, and the thread got fergot, so I never asked admen ter clarify. Maybe Herr Yojo kin translate.
You a funny gal, BW.
100 I win.
I hope $10.00 per month helps. The articles on TBP are superb. The commentary is what keeps me reading! I have been here for years and would not have it any other way! Thank you!
Admiiiiiiiiinnnnn!!!!!!!!!!!!
(I love imitating YoBo but I’m not sure what my motivation is. Am I supposed to sound like a screechy Boston Metrosexual in skinny jeans or a whiny female account executive? Work with me, people.)
Did you get my TBP contribution?
EC