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It’s Very Important to Look Up Tonight

Tonight is the ‘Transit of Venus’,

one of the rarest planetary events in our solar system.

You’ll see Venus pass across the sun tonight.

It will look like this.

It will start during these times, and last for 6.5 hours.

(photo credit: University of Toronto)

This will not happen again till you and I are long dead, in 2117.

This phenomenon happens in pairs, separated by more than 100 years. The last one occurred in 2004 and next pair in 2117 and 2125.

I’ve had this event in my calendar for three years.

(Venus and Earth are the same size)

Things are really kicking off up there.  There was a solar eclipse a few weeks ago, yesterday was a full moon, remember when I told you the planets aligned last May?

I subject you to planetary alignment posts from time to time, it’s important.

For such a logical girl, I’m really into this stuff.

Why?

My thinking is: all previous civilizations tracked them, why not ours, we can’t possibly think we’re all there is, that everything you see is all that exists.

The Egyptians dedicated their entire country to constructing buildings to track such things.  Think you’re smarter than them?  We’re not.

That’s why one of my very first Canadian Explorer episodes was about the planets.

Episode 2/80 – Exploring Deep Space aired August 2007

(note: the gentleman in the red shirt, Dr. Terry Bridges, discovered 6 dwarf galaxies in our galaxy, so cool)

My recommendation to you is to make a wish tonight, and make it big – it’s called a dream for a reason.

Further Reading:

Gizmodo

The Star

Official KeriBlog 2012 Prediction here (video) and here

NASA

 

 

I Only Run in Forests

Running along a straight road is the most boring thing a human could do.

I prefer forests.

Every route is different, there’s no one around, and here’s the kicker: you’ve no time to think about how tired you are, how much you want to stop running… you’re too busy trying to not hit your face into a tree.

I also think it’s more effective than the spending time in a gym.

MY FITNESS THEORY: Imagine I take a set of twins. I give Bill manual labour to do for three months, and Phil a dumbbell and gym routine. At the end of the 90 days I pit them against each other in a snow shovelling competition. Bill would win for sure.

(from this post: Why I Like Parkour)

Click here for forest running stories from my ‘The Canadian Explorer’ days, including when I was crossing a river on a tree and it broke underneath me.

Get outside and be IRL.

Leave your phone behind when you do.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Enter Year of the Dragon

(dragon statue by Swarovski. Takes 490 hours to make one, only 888 were made)

Gong Xi Fa Chai! Happy New Year!

It’s Chinese New Year tomorrow, January 23 2012, and it’s ‘Year of the Dragon’.

It’s the only sign of the Chinese zodiac that is a creature that you cannot see. Powerful and mystical. Mysterious and lucky.

In the old days the dragon represented the king and only the king could wear the dragon symbol on his clothing. The year of the dragon is especially popular.

Things you do to prepare for this:

  • Make sure your home is clean and tidy before the new year
  • Don’t forget your car, everyone forgets their car
  • Don’t take throw out the garbage for 5 days after the new year – – or you are ‘throwing away your money’
  • Take special care not to break any glass – bad luck
  • Try not to make any enemies or quarrel with anyone
  • Wear red underwear for good luck
  • Get a haircut

If you need inspiration for purging, remember when I created ‘The Emporium’, and gave away everything I own?

All of that, gone. And I haven’t thought or missed any of it for one second. You won’t either, you’ll see.

Here’s to this being your best year yet! I hope all your dreams come true in 2012.

xo Keri

 

 

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