Christina…blood, heart, soul and love
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FULL WOLF MOON tonight Jan 29, 2010
Historically, the Native Americans who lived in the area that is now the northern and eastern United States kept track of the seasons by giving distinctive names to the recurring full Moons. Each full Moon name was applied to the entire month in which it occurred. These names, and some variations, were used by the Algonquin tribes from New England to Lake Superior.
January 29, 2010
Full Wolf Moon
This full Moon appeared when wolves howled in hunger outside the villages. It is also known as the Old Moon. To some Native American tribes, this was the Snow Moon, but most applied that name to the next full Moon, in February.Tonight's full moon will be the biggest and brightest full moon of the year. It offers anyone with clear skies an opportunity to identify easy-to-see features on the moon.
But why will this moon be bigger than others?
The moon is, on average, 238,855 miles from Earth. The moon's orbit around Earth -- which causes it to go through all its phases once every 29.5 days -- is not a perfect circle, but rather an ellipse. One side of the orbit is 31,070 miles closer than the other.
So in each orbit, the moon reaches this closest point to us, called perigee. Once or twice a year, perigee coincides with a full moon, as it will tonight, making the moon bigger and brighter than any other full moons during the year.
Tonight it will be about 14 percent wider and 30 percent brighter than lesser full Moons of the year, according to Spaceweather.com.
As a bonus, Mars will be just to the left of the moon tonight. Look for the reddish, star-like object.
Now if only the skies where I live would clear up…*sigh*
To eat or not to eat…that is the question
Off and on over the last few years I have been seriously thinking about food…you know where it comes from, how it is grown…the good, the bad and the ugly side of the food industry. I have read lots of materials about the farming practices, the livestock factories…and well it ain’t like what it was years ago.
For all of us who can’t, for various reasons, grow a garden, raise our own meat etc., we are at the mercy of the grocery store. Common sense alone tells me that what I see in the grocery store is not normal. You can buy fruits/veggies that are not in season for your local area…are coming from another country and therefore it is shipped while green, etc., and who knows what else is being done to their growth. Chickens and cattle being fed with antibiotics etc so they can grow super fast so they can be slaughter sooner. Saying all that, we are truly eating foods that are not “real”… really! Don’t get me started on “processed” packaged foods and “farmed” fish…another dark side of the food industry.
It is true, that we have come to learn to eat what is not normal, out of season, man-helped meats, and just totally un-natural foods. It just makes me wonder if what we are consuming is truly making us sick.
Personally, only I can make the decision to eat or not to eat what is presented to me at my local grocers. Yes I have choices…and I think I am going to eat what is true, humane, in season and pure in its origins…and Yep, my body will thank me for it!
Side note: I was going to post photos of some commercial farms, well, the cruelty was ……………….
DID YOU KNOW…
I love reading about common everyday stuff, so enjoy!
How did the grapefruit get its name, since it is so much bigger than a grape?
Grapefruit (Citrus paradisi) resemble grapes only in that they grow in clusters, but that was sufficient reason for early European explorers in Barbados to bestow this name on them.
Is it true that Benjamin Franklin invented an odometer?
Yes. While he was postmaster in Philadelphia, he created an odometer to measure postal route distances and attached the contraption to his carriage.
Where did the term "kick the bucket" come from?
A bucket is a beam on which pigs were hung by their hind legs to be killed. "Kick the bucket" originally referred to the pigs' struggle while being slaughtered (they literally kicked the beam) and eventually came to be used to indicate dying in general.
Well I know now…how about you? Enjoy your week my friends.
Staying Young…
1. Keep only cheerful friends. The grouches pull you down.
2. Keep learning. Learn more about the computer, crafts, gardening, whatever. Never let the brain idle. 'An idle mind is the devil's workshop.'
3. Enjoy the simple things.
4. Laugh often, long and loud. Laugh until you gasp for breath.
5. The tears happen. Endure, grieve, and move on. The only person, who is with us our entire life, is ourselves. Be ALIVE while you are alive.
6. Surround yourself with what you love, whether it's family, pets, keepsakes, music, plants, hobbies, whatever. Your home is your refuge.
7. Cherish your health: If it is good, preserve it. If it is unstable, improve it. If it is beyond what you can improve, get help.
8. Don't take guilt trips. Take a trip to the mall, even to the next county; to a foreign country but NOT to where the guilt is.
9. Tell the people you love that you love them, at every opportunity.
AND ALWAYS REMEMBER: Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
MY WISH FOR YOU IN 2010
May peace break into your home and may thieves come to steal your debts.
May the pockets of your jeans become a magnet for $100 bills.
May love stick to your face like Vaseline and may laughter assault your lips!
May happiness slap you across the face and may your tears be that of joy
May the problems you had, forget your home address!
In simple words ............
May 2010 be the best year of your life!!
A BLUE MOON NEW YEAR EVE JUST FOR YOU!
If you can and your skies are clear…Take out some time from new year eve revelry Thursday and look at the sky to catch a glimpse of a rare celestial phenomenon - a blue moon. A partial lunar eclipse will also be observed early Jan 1, 2010.
The full moon on Thursday will be a "blue moon".
A blue moon has nothing to do with the color of the moon but when two full moons occur within the same month, the second full moon of the month is called a "blue moon", a term used metaphorically to describe the rarity of an event, as in the idiomatic expression -- once in a blue moon.
"Most years have twelve full moons, but since a lunar cycle is 29.5 days, we wind up with almost 11 leftover days. Eventually the days add up, and we have two full moons in a single month -- like we do this month.
A blue moon comes every two-and-a-half years on an average, but this will be the first time since 1990 that it will coincide with new year's eve. The event will not happen again till 2028.
The lunar eclipse will begin at 12.22 a. m. and end at 1.24 a. m. Friday. However, the partial eclipse will not be visible with the naked eye.
So here we are, a New Year approaches. May 2010 bring Peace, Love, Joy and Harmony to all you my friends.
See ya all next year eh?
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