During the month-long “Food for Fines” program, Lexington’s parking authority will accept cans for citations.

For one month in Lexington County, Kentucky, individuals who forgot to feed their parking meter or drove too fast and got a ticket can pay off their fines with canned good donations.

The Lexington Herald-Leader reports that during the monthlong “Food for Fines” program (November 16 – December 18), the city’s parking authority will accept cans for citations.

Those who donate 10 canned food items will receive a $15 credit on citations. Customers with multiple citations are only allowed to bring in 10 cans per citation to receive the credits.

All the food will be donated to God’s Pantry Food Bank, which will use the items to stock the shelves of its four Lexington locations.

By Melissa Joy Jonsson
Guest Writer for Wake Up World

The greatest illusion in this world is the illusion of separation. Things you think are separate and different are actually one and the same. — Guru Pathik

Often our individual and collective experiences are a result of fields with which we are knowingly or unknowingly in resonance through the hologram of consciousness. Change a field resonance in the hologram, and everything can change.

Although an understanding of science is not necessary for practical application and experience of the Fields, a general synopsis of principles relating to the science of consciousness and the possible nature of reality is provided here to support empowered interactive reality creation. However one does not need to understand the science to experience the power, love, and grace of the Fields. In fact, experience is a form of understanding. Embodied experience ignites curiosity that propels movement in our awareness. The moment we think we completely understand or know anything, we limit what we might discover. The moment we immerse ourselves in experience, we create references and distinctions for ourselves as placeholders in our personal maps of reality.

An unusual plankton growth has been discovered in the North Atlantic, in contrast to the scientific predictions for the area. The discovery suggests a swift environmental change as a result of increased amounts of carbon dioxide may be underway.

A team of researchers has conducted a study to investigate the microscopic algae growth in North Atlantic and the results have, to their surprise, showed a major increase of certain species. For example, in a period between 1965 and 2010, the abundance of single-cell organism coccolithophores showed a tenfold increase with sharp peaking during the late 1990s.

Coccolithophores are single-cell algae organisms that cloak themselves in a distinctive cluster of pale disks made of calcium carbonate, or chalk. They play a role in cycling calcium carbonate, a factor in atmospheric carbon dioxide levels. In the short term they make it more difficult to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, but in the long term - tens and hundreds of thousands of years - they help remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and oceans and confine it in the deep ocean.

Treating yourself with kindness and care should always come first. Once you can do this without reservation that ability will automatically transfer from within to those around you. ~ Creator

https://thecreatorwritings.wordpress.com/2015/11/28/care-compassion/

Dear Ones, your soul will always seek freedom and expansion, as that is the way of the universe. Anything other than that will ultimately lead you to experience discomfort.

How do you keep yourself constrained and contained? Are you still operating from fear? Separation? Resistance? Control? We find it interesting that people refer to sameness as their comfort zone, because from our viewpoint it ends up not being very comfortable at all!

Understand your natural state is to flow and to grow. It is through those means that you will stay engaged in life, and find ever new and wonderful ways to discover and define yourselves. That is the glory of being in the body, on the planet, and we urge you to embrace the myriad of opportunities you have, right now, to further get to know yourselves in the realm of experience you call earth. ~Archangel Gabriel

http://trinityesoterics.com/2015/11/28/daily-message-saturday-november-28-2015/

God said:

Has it not been a gift for you to see a blue sky as well a night blue sky sparkling with stars and hope? How about leaves on trees changing colors and appearing and later disappearing? And what about babies so innocent and powerful and so aware of their needs and knowing that their needs will be filled!

You live in a great miracle of life that is not to be overlooked.

There are puppies and kittens, and elephants and all kinds of animals who naturally know just how to take care of their babies. Is this not a gift given? How remarkable and full life is! Yes, when there is plenty of milk, why would anyone cry over spilled milk?

There is nothing eminently wrong with crying. It’s also part of life, yet is it necessary to cry over so much as you may and perhaps extend crying's expiration date in testament to overwhelming heartache?

Find that which gives you pleasure in life and thus gives you delight from inside yourself. Come to life with the idea of being well-pleased. Make it as easy to be pleased as it is to be displeased. Focus on what gives you happiness. Is it so hard to count your blessings? Or are you better at counting other people's blessings and lack of your own? Dear Ones, sometimes you are cranky with life.

There is an entire day during a festival in Nepal dedicated solely to thanking dogs for their loyalty and friendship. The time itself is called “Diwali” celebrated by Hindus, and is a ‘festival of lights’ celebrated by millions every year in the fall, in india, nepal and elsewhere.

Specific to Nepal, there is a day during this celebration dedicated to all the Dogs, called Kukur Tihar, specifically to thank our 4-legged companions for always being our loyal friends.

Tihar is a five day Hindu festival, but the second day is reserved for our loyal companions.

It is called Kukur Tihar or Kukur Puja (worship of the dogs).