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***Please Leave your vegetables Outside 

June 19, 2006—It looks like a rainbow that's been set on fire, but this phenomenon is as cold as ice.

Known in the weather world as a circumhorizontal arc, this rare sight was caught on film on June 3 as it hung over northern Idaho near the Washington State border.

The arc isn't a rainbow in the traditional sense—it is caused by light passing through wispy, high-altitude cirrus clouds. The sight occurs only when the sun is very high in the sky (more than 58° above the horizon). What's more, the hexagonal ice crystals that make up cirrus clouds must be shaped like thick plates with their faces parallel to the ground.

When light enters through a vertical side face of such an ice crystal and leaves from the bottom face, it refracts, or bends, in the same way that light passes through a prism. If a cirrus's crystals are aligned just right, the whole cloud lights up in a spectrum of colors.

This particular arc spanned several hundred square miles of sky and lasted for about an hour, according to the London Daily Mail.

—Victoria Gilman

 

I dedicate these clouds...a gift of God to the lost children of Quarryville, PA. The clouds can be analyzed and explained by science. What happened to the  children defies nature and human understanding. 

 

As we turn the corner on the Autumnal equinox, and celebrate the birth of the stream, I continue to be amazed at the convergence of my life at home and my life in the stream….

One year ago this week I sat under my large tree and talked to my friend Tonya. She told me stories of the man she was divorcing and described the collection of child pornography discovered on his computer. I finally told her to stop. I could not hear it.

 

Today we visited IM. Last year she moved out of town. She continues in her decade long attempt to reform him and give him the unconditional love and support she thinks will fix him. He continues to reoffend. As always I wished her well. My advice would be  as always unheeded and unwelcome. She is having a heavy dose of radiation therapy to stop her growing cancer in her body.

 

At this time of year one year ago, my friend Ray returned to my life after  almost 20  years. Although, I didn’t realize it at the time, he was saying goodbye. At the end of October 2005, he committed suicide. From time to time I still play chess with his brother my ex fiancée. We reconnected  (never again to be more than friends) when he called me to tell me about Ray.

 

In the early eighties, Ray came to me with his 5^th step.  He revealed his part in the death of a teenager due to a drunk driving accident years before. It was one of the things we talked about some 2 decades later…..I was surprised to realize that over the years carrying his secret had changed me in ways I could not fathom .

 

Today I still cry…and I am not big on crying, at his ending.. I think that reconnecting with his lost soul and losing him, without being able to help him, was part of the reason for the things that have transpired in my life the last 12 months.

 

On October 2, 2005 I  signed up on Blogstream. Since I came here I have been waking up….I want and need to thank you all for this journey.

 

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
- Kahlil Gibran

Reiki (pronounced ray-key) is an ancient Japanese word that means universal life energy. This energy flows through all living things.  Reiki is a powerful healing technique. It usually involves the laying on of hands to transfer energy. It strengthens the immune system and  balances the charka as well as bringing peace, balance and harmony.

 Reiki is thousands of years old and was recently bought to the west. Reiki belongs to no religion. 

 

I just got a call from my friend Lea. She does Reiki on my Mom every Friday. Tomorrow she is going to do Reiki on a white Bengal Tiger. If not for my softball tournament I would go with her.  

I hope she is very careful with that tiger....because if I survive 3 games of softball I am going to need her services!