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It’s a shell!

February 22, 2012 — 1 Comment

I’m not a nutcase, I’ve just developed some handy, protective behavior layers. They had served me well (so said delusion and denial) for the years that I thought I needed them. It looks like it may be time for some laundry again. Metaphysical laundry.

Anger comes easy to me and I have learned that I am a type of person who cannot afford it. I understand the argument that anger is a survival tool and can be very useful, but I would like to call it an inappropriate method for me handling my issues. For starters, when I identify feeling frustrated, it tends to actually be that I am afraid of something. I guess subconsciously (or not so) I am one of those folk who deem being or feeling frightened as unbecoming, immature or worst: unmanly.

Smokey once told Joe: “What other people think of you is none of your fucking business.”

That always stings for a moment, then lifts me up. I liken it to getting beaned with a life preserver.

It’s beautiful, isn’t it? I rarely thank the Earth’s magnetosphere for doing such a great job. I have a lot to be grateful for: Goldilocks’s distance from the Sun, bountiful organisms to consume, a crust to walk on between molten magma and silent, freezing, black darkness. Life is groovy.

I read on the NASA website that there was a Coronal Mass Ejection or CME that occurred on January 27th after 11PM. Scientists say that most of it was not directed at our planet, but that we could still experience a “glancing blow”.

The sun goes through periodic variations or cycles of high and low activity that repeat approximately every 11 years. Although cycles as short as 9 years and as long as 14 years have been observed. The solar or sunspot cycle is a useful way to mark the changes in the sun.

found on http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sunearth/spaceweather/index.html#q9

Rest assured that over the next couple of years people will attempt to link this even to the end of one long count in the Mayan Calendar. I predict that we will simply begin a second long count. In other words, the most fascinating astronomical change that will occur after December 21, 2012 will be December 22, 2012. There is so much more to do with our time while living than to be in fear.

More of this event can be found at http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sunearth/news/News012712-X1.8.html