This weekend, a celestial event is set to stun. The Geminid meteor shower will peak on the evening of December 13th and the very early morning hours of December 14th, before dawn. The quarter moon will rise around midnight, but Geminid meteors are incredibly bright, so that shouldn’t be an issue. Geminid meteor showers favor the northern hemisphere but are likely to be visible in the southern hemisphere too.

All of our lives are timeless and only experienced through awareness.

Time freezes our attention and makes us believe we are a solitary entity. Awareness allows us to escape the illusion and limitation of time.

We are soul expressing self, through multiple dimensions, all at one time, within the illusion of self.

Everything exists within the moment of now -- every potential, every outcome.

Namaste.
CJ and Robert

email Robert: robertcosmar@gmail.com
email CJ: cjheck60porsche@gmail.com

There are billions of people on our planet, and some are truly happy. The rest of us bounce back and forth between happiness and well, unhappiness depending on the day.

I’ve learned there are certain traits and habits chronically unhappy people seem to have mastered. We all have bad days, even weeks — myself included — when we fall down in all seven areas.

The difference between a happy and unhappy life is how often and how long we stay there.

Here are the seven qualities of chronically unhappy people.

1. Your default belief is that life is hard.

Happy people know life can be hard and tend to bounce through hard times with an attitude of curiosity versus victimhood. They take responsibility for how they got themselves into a mess, and focus on getting themselves out of it as soon as possible.

Owen Poindexter, AlterNet
Waking Times

The more research is released, the more legalization makes sense.

Back in the 1930s, the arguments to criminalize cannabis were bizarre and openly racist. The anti-pot crusader Harry Anslinger made all sorts of over-the-top claims, such as, “Marihuana is a short cut to the insane asylum. Smoke marihuana cigarettes for a month and what was once your brain will be nothing but a storehouse of horrid specters.”

The latest statistics from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimate that more than 5.4 million American children between the ages of four and 17 living today have been diagnosed with the behavioral disorder known as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).

The study, published in The Lancet Neurology, finds a list of common chemicals are likely contributing to what the researchers are calling the “global, silent pandemic of neurodevelopmental toxicity” in children, reports Forbes.

The 11 chemicals and their effects (via Forbes):

Lead–This is one of the most extensively researched compounds in terms of neurodevelopment, and has been consistently linked to serious deficits, including low IQ. Its effects seem to be permanent, leading to the conclusion that there is no safe level of exposure.

The NDAA is just the gift that keeps on giving, isn’t it? Prior to vote, the House and Senate Arms Services Committee attached a provision to the NDAA that would transfer the Apache people’s ancestral lands in the Tonto National Forest to a corporation called Resolution copper, which is a subsidiary of Rio Tinto, which as an Australian-English mining company. Senator John McCain, the senior Republican Senator from Arizona headed the push for this provision to be included.

As can be expected, Apache leaders were appalled by this move. They learned of the provision, ironically, while attending the White House Tribal Nations conference. Republicans have been trying to give ancestral lands to corporations for years now, but have always been blocked by significant opposition by the San Carlos Apache Tribe and their Democratic allies in Congress. But now, the NDAA will go to the Senate for a vote...

Katie was given a cabbage and the rest is history.

Katie, a third grader, was granted a cabbage plant through a school program to grow, and grow it did! Not only did her plant grow, but her passion for local farming and feeding the hungry did as well. Katie displays a kind of pragmatism and strength that is hard to find even in adults.

“Some people approach an issue and say, ‘well this issue is too big, I can’t do anything about it.'” she says in the intro of the video, “I know that by myself I can’t end hunger, but it doesn’t matter how small your actions are, even if you don’t realize it at the time, you’re making a difference.”