He doesn't know that. He's an idiot. For all he knows, it could be the worst day of his life. 

You know how people say, 'Who knows? I could get hit by a bus tomorrow.' That seems pretty farfetched. 

Until you have a friend who got hit by a bus. 

The point is you never know what kind of day is coming. 

Whenever we think we know the future, even for a second, it changes. Sometimes the future changes quickly and completely. And we're left only with the choice of what to do next.

 We can choose to be afraid of it, to stand there, trembling, not moving, assuming the worst that can happen. 

Or we step forward, into the unknown, and assume it will be brilliant.

 Every action has an equal and opposite reaction.

 Emergency rooms are kept in business by people who have learned that lesson in the hard way. Skydivers, bullriders. People whose bold ideas can often result in broken bones and smushed spleens. 

The thing about the bold moves is they're terrifying, could end in nothing but tears and broken bones. 

And that's exactly what makes them so damned exciting.

 

Do you know who you are? 

Do you know what's happened to you? 

Do you want to live this way? 

All it takes is one person, one moment to change your life forever. It can change your perspective, colour your thinking. One moment that forces you to re-evaluate everything you think you know. 

Do you know who you are? 

Do you know what's happened to you? 

Do you want to live this way? 

 There's a stage you go through during child birth and it's the toughest part. It's called the transition stage. 

You've been pushing so hard and so long that you're exhausted, spent and there's nothing to show for your effort. 

During this transition stage, it feels like you can't go on, but it's only because you're very nearly there. 

Transition is movement from one part of life to a whole new one. And it can feel like one long, scary, dark tunnel. 

But you have to come out the other side because what's been waiting there might be glorious.

 You know your tailbone? It used to be a tail.

That pink part in the corner of your eye? It used to be a third eyelid.

The appendix used to help us digest tough foods. Now, it does nothing.

The story of our evolution, is the story of what we leave behind, what we've discarded. Our bodies only hang on to the things we absolutely need. The things we have no longer use for, we give up. We let go.

Why does it feel so good to get rid of things? To unload? To let go?

 Maybe because when we see how little we need to make us survive, it makes us realize how powerful we actually are. To strip down to only what we really need. To hang on to only what we can't do without, what we need.

Not just to survive but to thrive.

  

Sometimes you just need to get out of town. 

Get a new perspective. 

But you can't always see that you need a new perspective, because you, well, need a new perspective to be able to see that. It's complicated.

 Open your eyes. What do you see? More possibilities? Does your new view give you more hope? That's the goal. 

Although it doesn't always work out that way. 

Sometimes a shift in perspective just makes you see what you've lost.

Adam Three Wives

 

According to the Midrash Genesis Rabba, Adam had three wives:

• Lilith: Lilith was Adam's first wife, created from the earth like Adam. She demanded to be treated as Adam's equal, but he refused, so she left.
• Another wife: After Lilith left, God created another wife for Adam. This woman was assembled in Adam's presence, giving him insight into her body parts.
• Eve: Eventually, Adam was presented with Eve. 

Lilith is not mentioned directly in the Bible, but her story is used to explain the two contradictory versions of Creation in Genesis

• The nameless one is the Maiden, she is described as "the virgin"
• Lilith is the Mother, she "gave birth to the Lilim"
• Eve is the Crone, as she "lived to be older than any woman"

In the Bible, Eve is Adam's only wife. There are ancient texts that say that Adam had another wife first, whose name was Lilith, but God sent her away because for many reasons she was an unsuitable mate for Adam. These texts were not included in the Bible.

According to Jewish lore, Lilith was the first wife of Adam. Although not mentioned directly in the Bible, Lilith has been used to explain the two contradictory versions of Creation within the book of Genesis. Like Adam, Lilith was created from the dust and the earth, making them equal to one another.

In ancient Jewish folklore, Lilith is said to be the name of Lucifer's wife. In the earliest recorded references, dating back to the third century, she was originally conceived as the first wife of Adam, before Eve.

Lilith, and especially Eve, are imbedded in traditions of ancient Israel and the later Judaism. Rabbinic scholars artificially incorporated Lilith, in essence a pre-biblical figure, into the biblical narrative of Adam and Eve

The Bible mentions the Lilith only once, as a dweller in waste places (Isaiah 34:14), but the characterization of the Lilith or the lili (in the singular or plural) as a seducer or slayer of children has a long pre-history in ancient Babylonian religion.

One story tells that Lilith refused to lay beneath Adam during sex. She believed they were created equal, both from the dust of the earth, thus she should not have to lay beneath him. After Adam disagreed, Lilith fled the Garden of Eden to gain her independence.

Just like Pandora in ancient Greece, Eve was known as the first woman on earth in Hebrew history. Even the creation of the two women is similar: Pandora was made of earth and water and Eve was from the rib of Adam, the first man on earth, who was in his turn made of clay.

Those who believe the Lilith narrative suggest the story of Lilith was removed from the Bible to support the patriarchy and to keep women in a place of submission. If women found out about Lilith, they would know they were originally designed to be equals with men, which would disrupt the whole social order.

Lilith is from the book of jewish kabbalah known as the zohar. She was not “banished from heaven”, but the garden of eden. Jews believe that God made Lilith from the dust like Adam, instead of from Adam's rib like Eve. She refused to submit to him and was banished for it.

November Beaver Moon

 

Friday November 15: Beaver Moon

• Trapping beavers, prized for their warm fur, was popular during this lunation's activity.


November's full Moon is known by a number of names. 


The name Beaver Moon is rooted in November being the time of year when beavers begin to shelter in their lodges for winter,




Another name is the frost moon.


some may feel the urge to slow down and take stock of things, some might want to socialise more and take up new activities.




linked to the time of year when beavers begin to take shelter in their lodges, having gathered enough food to last through the winter.




The full 'Beaver Moon' will be best viewed as it rises in the east at dusk on Friday, Nov. 27, though it will appear full on Thursday and Saturday as well.

The Seven Wonders

 

Seven Wonders - Song by Fleetwood Mac

 

So long ago
Certain place
Certain time
You touched my hand
On the way
On the way down to Emmeline

But if our paths never cross
Well, you know I'm sorry, but

If I live to see the seven wonders
I'll make a path to the rainbow's end
I'll never live to match the beauty again
The rainbow's edge

So it's hard to find
Someone with that kind of intensity
You touched my hand, I played it cool
And you reached out your hand to me

But if our paths never cross
Well, no, I'm not sorry, but

If I live to see the seven wonders
I'll make a path to the rainbow's end
I'll never live to match the beauty again
The rainbow's edge

So long ago
It's a certain time
It's a certain place
You touched my hand and you smiled
All the way back you held out your hand
If I hope and if I pray
Ooh it might work out someday

If I live to see the seven wonders
I'll make a path to the rainbow's end
I'll never live to match the beauty again

If I live to see the seven wonders
I'll make a path to the rainbow's end (I'll make a path there)
I'll never live to match the beauty again
(You'll never live to see the beauty, the beauty, that same same beauty)

If I live to see the seven wonders
I'll make a path to the rainbow's end
I'll never live to match the beauty again
(Oh well if I hope and I pray, well, maybe it might work out some day)

The Seven Wonders

 

The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World

• Great Pyramid of Giza: 
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• the earliest of the wonders to be completed, as well as the only one that still exists in the present day.

• the largest Egyptian pyramid. It served as the tomb of pharaoh Khufu, who ruled during the Fourth Dynasty of the Old Kingdom. Built c. 2600 BC, over a period of about 26 years

• Colossus of Rhodes:
•  a statue of the Greek sun god Helios, erected in the city of Rhodes, on the Greek island of the same name, by Chares of Lindos in 280 BC. 
• , it was constructed to celebrate the successful defence of Rhodes city against an attack by Demetrius I of Macedon, who had besieged it for a year with a large army and navy.
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•   destroyed by an earthquake 

• Lighthouse of Alexandria: 

a lighthouse built by the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Ancient Egypt, during the reign of Ptolemy II Philadelphus (280–247 BC).

 It has been estimated to have been at least 100 metres (330 ft) in overall height.

severely damaged by three earthquakes between 956 and 1323 AD and became an abandoned ruin.

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• Mausoleum at Halicarnassus: 

 a tomb built between 353 and 351 BC in Halicarnassus (present Bodrum, Turkey) for Mausolus, an Anatolian from Caria and a satrap in the Achaemenid Persian Empire, and his sister-wife Artemisia II of Caria. 

The structure was designed by the Greek architects Satyros and Pythius of Priene. Its elevated tomb structure is derived from the tombs of neighbouring Lycia, a territory Mausolus had invaded and annexed c. 360 BC, such as the Nereid Monument.

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• Temple of Artemis: 

also known as the Temple of Diana, was a Greek temple dedicated to an ancient, localised form of the goddess Artemis (equated with the Roman goddess Diana). 

It was located in Ephesus (near the modern town of Selçuk in present-day Turkey). 

By AD 401 it had been ruined or destroyed

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• Statue of Zeus at Olympia: 

a giant seated figure, about 12.4 m (41 ft) tall, made by the Greek sculptor Phidias around 435 BC at the sanctuary of Olympia, Greece, and erected in the Temple of Zeus there. 

Zeus is the sky and thunder god in ancient Greek religion, who rules as king of the gods of Mount Olympus.

The statue was a chryselephantine sculpture of ivory plates and gold panels on a wooden framework. Zeus sat on a painted cedarwood throne ornamented with ebony, ivory, gold, and precious stones. 

The statue was lost and destroyed before the end of the 6th century AD, with conflicting accounts of the date and circumstances. Details of its form are known only from ancient Greek descriptions and representations on coins and art.

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Hanging Gardens of Babylon: 


Legend has it that King Nebuchadnezzar II built this maze of waterfalls and vegetation for his wife, but archaeologists debate whether it actually existed 



 described as a remarkable feat of engineering with an ascending series of tiered gardens containing a wide variety of trees, shrubs, and vines, resembling a large green mountain constructed of mud bricks. It was said to have been built in the ancient city of Babylon, near present-day Hillah, Babil province, in Iraq.

  

There are some disasters you just don't see coming, no matter how carefully you plan. 

A little surprise that changes everything. 

. In life, it's a catastrophe.

a complication, a disruption, a glitch, a nasty surprise. 

It calls for extreme measures. 

You have to react quickly, try to catch up, because it came out of nowhere.

 And it can take everything away.

 Our genes, which we inherit from our parents, determine who we are biologically. 

Our blueprint. Everything from our eye color to our height. Even our laugh. 

But also our diseases. Asthma, diabetes, cancers. 

But who you are at your core goes way beyond genes. 

Who you really are is the result of many, many things. How you deal with fear. Who you surround yourself with. 

And how you show up when it matters.

 The organs in the human body have entirely different functions. 

The cells which make up those organs act independently of each other. 

But in a healthy body, seemingly independent cells quietly depend on the functioning of the others. Because when one system stops working, the others can't function for long.

Just as organ systems are codependent for survival, so are human beings. Studies have shown that our happiness and health depends on our relationships not just functioning, but thriving.

 Sometimes the best we can do is bear each other's burdens and ease each other's pain. 

And hold each other's hands in the dark.

 

The organs in the human body have entirely different functions. 

The cells which make up those organs act independently of each other. 

But in a healthy body, seemingly independent cells quietly depend on the functioning of the others. Because when one system stops working, the others can't function for long.

Just as organ systems are codependent for survival, so are human beings. Studies have shown that our happiness and health depends on our relationships not just functioning, but thriving.

 Sometimes the best we can do is bear each other's burdens and ease each other's pain. 

And hold each other's hands in the dark.