New Poem - (Dis)comfort

(Dis)comfort

I say I want contentment

I lie

There’s no healing for the healed

No recovery for the sane

Flaw is required for repair

Resurrection’s for the slain

To find perfection is to die,

Immortality the grave

For it’s through humanity we grow

Temptation frees the slave

Wisdom and innocence cannot coexist

Which do you want to be?

There is no purpose without struggle

We need to lick our sores

For to be content is to seize up

And improve no more.

~Carolynn Staib, 2011~

Northern Lights

Heads up...I'm a space geek.

For anyone interested, the aurora is predicted to make an appearance tonight or tomorrow night. Earlier this week the largest sunspot in years was discovered, suggesting a mass-emission solar flare (yes, yes, "mass-emission," quit giggling you pervs!). To give you an idea of the volume of solar matter ejected; the sun spot is estimated at 50,000 miles long and 25,000 miles wide, and could easily fit the earth inside it eighteen times over. Whoa!

Auroral forecast is incredibly subjective and depends on a lot of factors so there's always the risk for disappointment, but if it decides to drop by it should be spectacular. If you happen to miss it this time there will be other chances. 2011/2012 marks the end of a typical eleven year solar cycle, the ends of which produce a lot of flares - and it's thought that this "cycle-finale" is particularly active. Look up.