I, Kuthumi, greet you with Celestial Blessings for your next chapter. A magnificent chapter, one which we here hope you are ready to embrace. To celebrate this great time of opening to your higher mind.
Many will understand and indeed now begin to experience the restrictions of the lower conscious mind which has held humanity hostage for so long.
True love caught me by surprise about 40 years ago.
My husband was one of the sweetest men you could ever hope to meet. We loved each other deeply. He seemed to love everything about me, I appreciated him so much – and I was also exasperated with him.
I didn’t really understand ADD, Attention Deficit Disorder, in those days. All I knew was that I was constantly picking up after this man. I didn’t want to fall into nagging, but no amount of gentle or logical requests, reminders or pleas seemed to make any difference. I even brought a 30-gallon trash can into the house and put it right under the lip of the kitchen counter. After he took his pizza out, surely he could just sweep the box in? Instead, I was the one that threw the rubbish into the can and continued to pick up after him.
He liked a tidy home, but not enough to maintain it. Even back then, I felt that sharing a space with anyone meant finding compromises to work out differences in lifestyles. Expecting him to meet my standards of neatness just because I liked to squeeze toothpaste tubes and roll them up from the bottom was stepping further into all those shades of gray leading to “my way or the highway.”
It was another year of incredible weather extremes globally during 2012. The year featured two of the most expensive weather disasters in world history--Hurricane Sandy and the Great U.S. Drought of 2012, which will both cost more than $50 billion. Thankfully, no disasters had a death toll in excess of 2,000, though the 1,901 people dead or missing due to Super Typhoon Bopha in the Philippines may rank as that nation's 2nd deadliest typhoon ever.
Twenty-six weather disasters costing at least $1 billion occurred globally, according to insurance broker AON Benfield. Eleven billion-dollar weather disasters hit the U.S., a figure exceeded only by the fourteen such disasters in 2011. Nine billion-dollar weather disasters hit China, their highest total in a decade of record-keeping. I present for you, now, the top ten global weather stories of 2012, chosen for their meteorological significance and human and economic impact:
The red tide funk dogging Southwest Florida shores has been persistent as 2012 draws to a close and 2013 opens.
Capt. Phil O'Bannon, executive director of the Boca Grande Mote Marine Laboratory satellite office, said his group will focus on a red tide study this year in addition to other research involving sharks, snook and tarpon.
The big scary-sounding asteroid is no longer even a remote threat to smash into Earth in about 20 years, NASA says. Astronomers got a much better look at the asteroid when it whizzed by Earth on Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2013, from a relative safe 9 million miles away. They recalculated the space rock's trajectory and determined it wasn't on a path to hit Earth on April 13, 2036 as once feared possible. AP Photo/NASA
WASHINGTON -- Upon further review, a big scary-sounding asteroid is no longer even a remote threat to smash into Earth in about 20 years, NASA says.
Astronomers got a much better look at the asteroid when it whizzed by Earth on Wednesday from a relative safe 9 million miles away. They recalculated the space rock's trajectory and determined it wasn't on a path to hit Earth on April 13, 2036 as once feared possible. To watch the video and read the rest of this story, visit Weather.com
iWitness weather user Lady Pamela uploaded this photo of her Salt Lake City neighborhood Jan. 10, 2013.
Snow and strong winds from Gandolf will wind down by Saturday afternoon in the Northern Plains. Additional accumulations should be minor, but gusty winds will continue to contribute to blowing snow and dangerous travel in North Dakota and northwest Minnesota through the morning.
Gandolf brought heavy snow and blizzard conditions in spots from the northern/central Rockies starting on January 9 and then shifted slowly east into the Northern Plains by January 12. Below are some of the storm reports and snow totals from Gandolf:
Snow falls as a group of ultra-orthodox Jews pose for a snapshot next to the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City, Thursday, Jan. 10, 2013. AP Photo/Bernat Armangue
Record heat, deadly cold temperatures, flooding and rare snowfall - a wide range of extreme weather events have taken place around the world in the last few weeks.
The latest such example is from the Middle East, where flooding rains this week were followed by rare snow on Thursday.
To watch the video and read the rest of this story, visit Weather.com.
Hundreds of thousands of dead fish washed ashore this week at Masonboro Island, according to the state Department of Environment and Natural Resources.
The dead fish, identified as Atlantic Menhaden, are strewn along the island's beaches and in the water, stretching over a one-mile area from the Mason Inlet jetty to Loosins Creek, officials reported.
