"Sleeping Sun"
The sun is sleeping quietly
Once upon a century
Wistful oceans calm and red
Ardent caresses laid to rest
For my dreams I hold my life
For wishes I behold my night
The truth at the end of time
Losing faith makes a crime
I wish for this night-time
to last for a lifetime
The darkness around me
Shores of a solar sea
Oh how I wish to go down with the sun
Sleeping
Weeping
With you
Sorrow has a human heart
From my god it will depart
I'd sail before a thousand moons
Never finding where to go
Two hundred twenty-two days of light
Will be desired by a night
A moment for the poet's play
Until there's nothing left to say
I wish for this night-time...
I wish for this night-time...
The science:
The picturesshowvery few sunspots for what should be the most active part of the sunspot cycle, many scientists now believe that this is cooling our planet due to lower levels of radiaton from the sun. We should not let politicians jump to conclusions...
"As a species, we human beings have become so blind with conceit and
self-love that we genuinely believe that the fate of the planet is in
our hands — when the reality is that everything, or almost everything,
depends on the behavior and caprice of the gigantic thermonuclear
fireball around which we revolve."
Boris Johnson
duck... wait for the boom... then take a look outside. Rule #1 from the Meteor Strike Survival Guide, adapted from the "How to survive a nuclear strike handbook.". Jokes aside it must have been an awesome and somewhat frightening experience to have been in the Ural mountains Friday last week. This all happened while MD and I were on our way to a real Boeretroue in Hoopstad. For those that have not attended one and wish to maintain some form of diet... do not accept the invitation! It was virtually non stop eating from the moment we arrived on the farm until we left on Sunday morning late. Biltong by the bucket load and other delights, then at the reception even more followed by salads and bykosse to die for and enough braai to feed a small army.
Coming back to the meteor... it reminds me of this passage from Matthew 24; 36 “But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son,[f] but only the Father. 37 As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. 38 For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark; 39 and they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away. That is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. 40 Two men will be in the field; one will be taken and the other left. 41 Two women will be grinding with a hand mill; one will be taken and the other left. Let us therefore be prepared and live our lives as if each day is the day we will meet Jesus face to face.
