The moment when your heart opens to the truth that lives around you.... It's indescribable. It is hope, love, gratitude, empathy, pain, joy, struggle and a host of so much more, yet with peace to the core.
The moment you realize that the posts you read on social media each day that aim to motivate ARE in fact for YOU!
The moment that you allow your heart to break and feel a flood of emotion to the likes of nothing you have ever imagined.
I've been so very emotional lately. Yet, there has been no real explanation for my tears, my sorrow, my joy, my pain... I honestly thought I was going slightly bonkers, but I still embraced the stage of life. I understand that much of my emotion comes from being a deep Empath. I used to always say that I didn't have too many friends, because each new person I let into my life was soul tied to my heart, and I could feel their emotions. DAMN, I did not know how true that was! And now, here I am... openly inviting all of you into my life and my world with complete honesty, transparency and love... and this sh^t is no joke! The funny thing is I wouldn't have it any other way and I even sometimes wish I could advance this journey just so I could reach out to so many more of you. Yet, I call out my ego for having those thoughts and check myself back into the current moment because I am exactly where I am supposed to be in this moment.
Cars drive through a flooded street in northern Riyadh, on November 17, 2013, after heavy rains fell overnight in the Saudi capital, caused floods and traffic jams which forced the Saudi Eduction Ministry to suspend studies in schools and universities for one day (AFP Photo / Fayez Nureldine)
Severe flooding is being reported in Saudi Arabia, especially in the kingdom’s capital of Riyadh, with the government closing schools and urging people to stay indoors amid heavy rain. Flooding is rare in the country dominated by the Arabian Desert.
Witnesses in Riaydh, which is also the country’s largest city, are reporting flooded streets and shops. Pictures posted on Twitter show cars drowning in rainwater.
Nearly 300 houses with over 900 inhabitants have been inundated in a suburb of the Far Eastern Russian city of Komsomolsk-on-Amur after a nearby dam was destroyed in rising floods.
Up to 700 people have been evacuated so far, local Emergencies Ministry reported. The Mendeleyev settlement, where the dam is located, is home to 4,500 people; about a thousand of them are said to be in immediate danger.
BEIJING -- A government news agency says the death toll in flooding in China's northeast and southeast has risen to 43 and landslides blocked a major train line. The Xinhua News Agency said 12 deaths were reported Sunday in Liaoning province. That added to a total of 25 deaths reported earlier in Heilongjiang and Jilin, the other two provinces in China's northeast.
August 19, 2013 – RUSSIA – Up to 100,000 people may be evacuated from flood-hit regions in Russia’s Far East. Water levels at local reservoirs have already reached historic highs, and officials say the floods raging in the area are expected to continue rising even further. Floods are currently affecting over 32,500 locals living in over 5,000 homes. Over 17,000 residents have already left the area over the disaster. Viktor Ishayev, Russia’s Minister for the Far East, said that “in the worst-case scenario up to 100,000 people could be evacuated” from the Amur, Khabarovsk and Jewish Autonomous Regions.
GALENA, Alaska -- Yukon River flooding that knocked out power to the Alaska village of Galena has brought on a number of secondary problems, including how to keep bears away from hundreds of pounds of game meat that has spoiled in residents' refrigerators and freezers.
The flood caused by ice clogging the Yukon submerged some homes and washed out the road to the community's landfill. On Monday, emergency responders were developing plans to collect spoiled meat and fly it by helicopter to the dump, said Jeremy Zidek, spokesman for the Alaska Department of Military and Veterans Affairs.
Maranoa Mayor Robert Loughnan says some graziers in Queensland's southern inland are struggling to water their stock, despite relatively green conditions.
The region has experienced several floods in recent years but a lack of rain has put the western side of the shire in the grip of an undeclared drought. Councillor Loughnan says most farmers have feed but are running out of water.
Murrumbidgee Irrigation has finally agreed to let Griffith City Council and the SES use the East Mirrool Regulator to ease future flooding. Yenda residents blame a metre of soil at the site for exacerbating floods in March 2012 and some residents are yet to return to their homes.
Chief executive Raveen Jaduram says the abandoned structure will be be fully decommissioned at the end of the irrigation season. Mr Jaduram says the site could be made operational if Griffith City Council requests it for flood management as it works on its flood study.
A Gympie business owner says Australia needs a national levy to cover the cost of disasters. Disasters have cost Australia billions of dollars in the past few years - Gympie has had five major floods in two years.
About 50 business owners were at a forum in the city last night to be briefed by consultants doing a flood mitigation study for council. Kerren Smith's business has lost 5,000 production hours due to flooding this year and he says a scheme similar to the disability insurance levy is needed for disasters.
