Good morning!!!!

[jbrumberg]

If I remember things correctly (50%/50%) A Super/Blue Moon/Blood (eclipse) Moon occurs ~ every 150 years.

I worked a crisis telephone hotline for a couple of years and +10 years working psychiatric admissions and I saw a surge of "crises" during the Full Moon. During my graduate work I did a 130 year study of the admission rates of the State Psychiatric Hospital where I worked. I "skewed" the statistics by having a 3 day "Full Moon" period and the correlation was > 95%.

"..... I came back for whatever reason, ..... The Drs. cannot provide a definitive answer as to why this happened or if it will happen again. He stated "your're a walking miracle". It provided a truely different aspect of what life is all about, but each and every one of us is entitled to our own beliefs."- LS_MT125_owner

My gastroenterologist/endocrinologist reminded me again today how lucky I am as to my functionality. I have the "Daily Double" scheduled for next year He promised to do the endoscopy first this time I saw him in a hardware store once.

^^^^^^^ For many years I struggled with my "White Light Experience and was unable to share it with anyone. My clinical "head" (says anoxia) was in conflict with my feeling "heart" (says spiritual). The docs told me everything shut down in the ER. I was definitely delirious and hallucinating and then something happened there that changed my life. For as verbose as I am, it is still hard for me to put this experience in words. A lot of my personal demons died that day, but I did not. I too do not know why I came back.

 

[jerrybob]

51F currently.......raining........grey skies.........windy..........lots of water out there.

 

[Bird]

I worked a crisis telephone hotline for a couple of years and +10 years working psychiatric admissions and I saw a surge of "crises" during the Full Moon. During my graduate work I did a 130 year study of the admission rates of the State Psychiatric Hospital where I worked. I "skewed" the statistics by having a 3 day "Full Moon" period and the correlation was > 95%.

There was a time when I was a lieutenant, "watch commander"; i.e. shift supervisor, in the city jail. At that time, my boss was a retired commander from a state penitentiary system. And he was convinced that we could expect to be busier than usual any time we had a full moon. It did seem that way, but I never confirmed that with reliable data.:laughing:

 

[RedNeckGeek]

It provided a truly different aspect of what life is all about, but each and every one of us is entitled to our own beliefs.

Nothin' like a good ol' near death experience to help you get your life into perspective. Glad you made it through (twice) and are here to enjoy this asylum with the rest of us inmates.

As far as the belief part goes, though, that old adage it only good up to the point where people take it too seriously. Things like Jamestown, The Branch Davidians, the Las Vegas shootings, and the violent acts we were discussing earlier show that these days people are acting on their false beliefs in entirely inappropriate ways. And I'm not even going to go into the obvious political implications of that line of thought, as it would be inappropriate to do so here.:confused2:

 

[toppop52]

My late wife was an MD and prior an RN, she said birth rates and weird accidents were way up on full moons.

 

[ronjhall]

My late wife was an MD and prior an RN, she said birth rates and weird accidents were way up on full moons.

Good day to stay in bed.

 

[daugen]

Today was sure no day to go outside, rained all day, cold and miserable out.
So I planted another tray of lettuce and another tray of beets. Beets are fun to plant because the seeds are large enough
to pick up by fingers. What's interesting is that it's not a seed, but a seed cluster/pod, so most times more than one seedling comes out and will have to be thinned
or transplanted. Pretty easy to see the difference between the red beets and the golden beets. Pigmentation goes right up the stem.
Last pic is Pak Choy, baby Asian cabbages you cook when the size of a golf ball.

 

[sseelhoff]

I don't think anywhere is immune anymore. In the sleepy little college town where I get my groceries, they've had gang warfare, drug addicts invading the downtown plaza and kid's playgrounds, muggings on the bicycle paths, and even a rolling gun battle between Hmong tribesmen through the parking lot where I do my banking. Out here in the stix, we've had drug murders, arsonists torching thousands of acres and homes, and home invasion type robberies at grower's places (Google's satellite view makes it easy to spot the grows). A big part of it is poor care for the mentally ill, another factor is the loss of good paying "blue collar" jobs (less opportunity and higher demand for drugs), but I also think we hear more about the violence because the media coverage is so pervasive. Regardless of whether there's more violence now than in the past, it pays to maintain situational awareness at all times, even at home, and take whatever steps are necessary to make yourself a less desirable target, no matter where you live.

How long have you been working for your town's Tourism Board? Sounds delightful.

 

[jbrumberg]

Luckily for us here in nowheresville, MA (pop ~900) crime is still incredibly low. All the action takes place down in the "Valley"- Holyoke and Springfield. According to the LE I've talked to here all those "tough city guys" are not so "tough" when pulled over for some vehicular violation(s), out here in the dark, in the country, with no streetlights, with all the wildlife. They are all too afraid to get out of their vehicles and run.. It can get real isolated out here sometimes.... A mixed blessing.

Pak Choy is one of the nicest cabbages. It goes well with a lot of stuff. I/We have not had good luck growing it. It is really a later season crop around here. It tolerates cold well. It woks great.

 

[toppop52]

Good day to stay in bed. ��

And injuries from domestic violence, I forgot that.