I often wonder what I would or could be doing if I wasn't presently doing what I am currently doing. Life can be mundane at times and Im sure many wonder if there is something else or better that they could be doing. It can also be that we can become self absorbed in our daily routine and fail to look beyond what it is that we can do or are able to do as well as take for granted our potential.

As some of you have noticed in recent weeks and months there have been a large number of volcanos becoming more active as well as an increase in earthquake activity in various areas. Some of these volcanos have been dormant for quite some time but seem to be waking up.

It seems that the longer I live the more I notice a variety of things as Im sure we all do. I work with the public and people on a daily basis as Im sure many of you all do as well but what really seems to be getting more and more to me in recent years is how some within the general public treat others.

A couple of years ago I was sitting in my apartment just enjoying the late summer afternoon when I noticed a strange rumbling sound followed by a vibration. This was the first of what would be several over a period of time. It reminded me of a part in the film, "Jurrasic Park", when the kids were in the back of the SUV and the dinosaur was approaching. A boom , then a vibration.

It was 200 years ago today that there was an intense rumbling along the New Madrid fault line that was felt as far away as Boston. Parts of the Mississippi river ran backwards and even formed a lake. What a similar quke with a similar magnitude would do today could cause widespread devastation with a great loss of life.

As many of you have probably seen and heard from various reports, the sun seems to be quite a bit more active in recent days and months. Even as we speak this escalated activity on our big bright friendly orb out yonder seems to be a bit more concerning than usual.

This world is full of mystery and the longer we live the more we are likely to have strange encounters with things we cannont easily explain in reasonable terms. For some, it takes such experiences to understand and allow themselves to be a believer in such occurrences. For others , they may never have such experiences but leave open for the possibllity that such things can happen.

Im not sure when it became apparrent to me that I had a connection with nature. Probably when I was a lad in Boy Scouts and going out on camping trips I became aware of my fondness for just being out and away from everyting. As a youth I became very respectful of nature and established a relationship of sorts with Mother Nature and the great outdoors.