Glen Of Scotland

A forecast

During hurricane season, the forecasters track the path of the hurricane and provide warnings. Not to cause fear, rather to provide information so that you can make choices for yourself.

I have a forecast with the same intention, like my previous housing bubble forecast, I cannot let you know when exactly this will hit, as people create a lot of manipulation to delay the inevitable.

You will hear a lot more about debt, not just the US debt, more the debt of other countries, small towns, cities and the states here in the US, as well as those such as banks who own the debt. Currently Greece is on the verge of defaulting on their debt, close behind are Spain, Portugal and Ireland. The states in this country have current deficits and projections up to the year 2011 of a combined deficit of $134 billion dollars.

That doesn't include cities and towns which not only have deficits, they also have huge unfunded pension and health obligations for government employees. Some thing has to give, there is resistance by the unions to lay offs and pay cuts and there is resistance from tax payers to higher taxes. Both have to happen.

What does all this lead to? It leads to what I call phase 2 of the re-balancing of the economy. This does not mean it has to be painful for you, many came through phase 1 intact. They did so by being careful or conscious, they eliminated much of what they really didn't need to have or buy. They refinanced debt levels at low interest rates to free up cash, and many paid down or paid off debt (by the most amount in history).

There has been no significant change to banking regulations since phase 1 and as a result at least 1 major bank will fail and hundreds of smaller banks will do likewise. At least one major city will declare bankruptcy as will several smaller towns to clear themselves of high priced union contracts. This will bring deflation and things that you need will become less expensive, as they generally did in phase 1.

This is not good news for the stock market or the bond and commodity markets or the general economy.

We will come out of this stronger and better, use this time to clean things up in your life and create the minimum inconvenience. You have some time, this is not going to happen tomorrow.

Rare Blond bear

Nice picture of a rare blond bear, exercising  with the more common brown bear, more here

Slow Dance

Have you ever watched kids on a merry go round?

Or listened to the rain, slapping on the ground?

Ever followed a butterfly's erratic flight?

Or gazed at the sun into the fading light?

You better slow down, don't dance so fast.

Time is short, the music won't last.

Do you run through each day, on the fly?

When you ask: How are you? Do you hear the reply?

When the day is done, do you lie in your bed, with the next 100 chores, running through your head?

You'd better slow down, don't dance so fast.

Time is short, the music won't last.

Ever told your child, we'll do it tomorrow?

And in your haste not see his sorrow?

Ever lost touch, let a good friendship die, cause you never had time so call and say hi?

You better slow down, don't dance so fast.

Time is short, the music won't last.

When you run so fast to get somewhere, you miss half the fun of getting there.

When you worry and hurry through your day, it's like an unopened gift thrown away.

Life is not a race, do take it slower.

Hear the music, before the song is over.

David L Weatherford

Relax

It will soon be the weekend! For more click here

Happy Valentines Day

Love is all around today, even in nature, in case against all the odds:

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Dinner

This puffin has dinner ready, however someone was not as fortunate and lost theirs from above, click here to see.

The poop factor

Last year I observed a number of people who had problems with elimination, usually not enough bowel movements in a day. This is one of the best indicators of your emotions and general health, yet one no one wants to talk much about it, until it's a serious problem.

If you are not having a good 3 bowel movements a day, then start with your emotions, is their anything going that you feel stuck about? Are your emotions causing you to eat more of something as a way to comfort yourself? That's a good place too start, you can also view this video from Dr. OZ, it was on television last year, it is very helpful, it also gives you an idea of how uncomfortable people get when this subject comes up. View the video here

You will feel better, have more energy and better health when this comes back into balance. I have seen incredible changes in people when this is addressed.

Rare

Here is a rare photo of an albino fawn, given the nickname "white bambi" it was found in Italy. You see and read more here, there is a photo of her mother too.

Who are we to judge?

Last year, I observed 3 very specific situations of older people in wheel chairs, they were close to passing over, or croaking if you prefer. In each situation you could see very clearly they were at peace and happy, which is the main thing for them.

The locations were the local botanic gardens in full color splendor, the local butterfly pavilion where thousands of butterflies were at play also in full color splendor and finally at one of the casinos in Las Vegas, sitting at the slot machines, drink and cigarette in hand with all the color and sounds of the casino.

Many would judge the Las Vegas one as being wrong, especially in comparison to the other two. Yet those at the casino were as happy  and at peace as the others. It may not be everyone's choice to go there, that doesn't make it wrong, it's just a different choice, that's all.

We humans appear to judge a lot about what others do, perhaps we would like to control everyone, or we may feel unsafe or uncomfortable about what others do. Are we at peace when we judge? Usually not, yet here we are judging someone doing something that brings them peace and happiness and the judgment makes us unhappy. You mean all I have to do is X and you will be unhappy? Thanks for all that power!!

You may notice this going on at home or work, you could keep judging or be happy. You are the one in charge.