Julia K Cole

Studies have proven that we rarely keep our New Year’s resolutions.   I believe the reason for this is due to feelings of being deprived.  And when we feel deprived, we tend to get a bit rebellious!  I know I do.    For me and many others like myself,  it’s not like we don’t have the will power, we just don’t want to do without.   So!  For 2014 I am going to pass on a wonderful suggestion that was graciously and generously passed to me by EFT Master and Pioneer Carol Look.   Instead of taking away anything from your life this new year, why not Add Something Good instead? The following is an excerpt from her latest newsletter: So what could you ADD to your life in this New Year?  More fun? More healthy foods? More meditation time? More nature walks? More gratitude?  How about more tapping? Or more quiet time or more reading?   There's so much we can add... and it will take the place of those hab...

Everybody is feeling it.   But unlike years past, 2014 has everyone literally buzzing and filled to the brim with excitement as we anxiously prepare for the new year.  Many of us are feeling an uncharacteristic expectation of something BIG is coming.   Not only that.  In the  last few months of 2013 many have been experiencing intense dreams, waking up at 2 a.m. and 3 a.m.,  feeling anxious and heart racing like they just finished a marathon. What is it that we all collectively are feeling these last hours of 2013?  Could it be that we are collectively fed up with how things have been going in our lives?  Could it be that we finally are getting it ?  Could it be that we are finally letting go and allowing it to happen? Could be! If you read my two previous blogs entitled Pondering 2013 ( Part 1 & Part  2 ) , you already know that I've begun my process of "letting go and allowing" a few weeks ago. But as I sit here and ...

People who are religious or spiritual have ‘thicker’ brains, new research suggests. Parts of the brain’s outer layer, the cortex, were found to be thicker in people who were religious, than in those who were not. U.S. researchers studied people with a family history of depression and found the thickening related to religion could offer protection against the condition. To Read Whole Story Click HERE

New year, new laws. Dozens of new laws that affect you are going into effect in states across the U.S. come 2014. The provisions run the gamut from tanning salons to texting and driving to a higher minimum wage. New voter ID laws go into effect in Arkansas, Rhode Island, and Alabama on January 1. In Colorado, a new law allowing anyone 21 and over to buy an ounce of marijuana for recreational use goes into effect. And a new IRS rule will treat automatic tips added to large parties as taxable wages, which could mean that automatic gratuity may go away altogether. Click HERE to view what the state-by-state  the laws you need to know about come 2014.

(ABC News)  --  A new strain of norovirus that wreaks havoc on people's stomachs is so vicious that it's being called a "superbug" by doctors. Though it was first identified in Australia, this norovirus - also called the Sydney strain - is quickly spreading across the United States. Click HERE to Read More

 Kentucky is on fire right now. Kentucky and its fine Kentuckians kicked all kinds of ass in 2013. Just like we do every year. We took a look back at 2013 and selected a few of our favorite stories of Kentucky kick assery. While there are thousands of great stories in 2013, we narrowed the list down to only 24. So here you go - 24 ways Kentucky and its Kentuckians kicked ass in 2013. Enjoy!  Read All About It By Clicking HERE And heads up People of Earth:  If you think we kicked ass in 2013...stick around!  Cause you ain't seen nothing yet!   Happy New Year!   

As I sit here writing this, I’m reminded of a scene from What Dreams May Come .   You know the one, where Robin Williams’ character finds his wife who just committed suicide?   Like that character, I fought my way through "heaven" in order to be with people who made it painfully obvious they wanted nothing to do with me.   Like the wife, they are emotionally damaged, choosing to live their lives as a victim, creating their own special kind of hell in which to dwell.   Then here I come fighting all of heaven to join them.  Yea, imagine that someone would choose hell over heaven just to be with miserable, selfish assholes!      Crazy.  I know! Hell is a place I no longer wish to be.     So I say a final farewell to all those who rather live in misery and be a victim!  Who would rather wallow in the depths of despair in Hell than enjoy the splendors of Heaven. *~*~*~*~*~* ...

Design Basics There are many ways to build adequate shelter will all good designs sharing two qualities: strong insulation and minimal air space. The insulation is needed to trap the cats’ body heat, effectively turning the cats into little radiators. Empty air space needs to be eliminated in order to keep the amount of space that needs to be heated to a minimum. A well insulated large dog house will not work because there will be too much air space for the cats to warm. Likewise, a tight fitting space with thin, uninsulated walls won’t work either because the cat’s body heat will pass right through. Smaller Shelters Provide Warmth – Build More, Smaller Shelters With these design factors in mind, it is better to build two smaller shelters which will each hold three or four cats than one large shelter to house six to eight felines. With smaller shelters, even if only one or two cats go in, enough heat will be generated. But with the larger shelter, if only a small number of the c...

Do you reflect upon the years gone by as you prepare for yet one more, with promises and resolutions that you have made before? Do memories of people and places once as sharp as any knife now blend in bits and pieces in a kaleidoscope of life? Do you squander precious minutes seeking reasons why you’re here,  contemplating your life’s purpose year after passing year? Persuade yourself to understand, it matters not the reason. Your purpose is to seize the life in every passing season! Learn to see things differently. Let your thoughts and actions change. Allow your views of past and present to slowly rearrange. Let your spirit start anew; become focused and aware of the moments and the blessings that surround you everywhere! Do not permit past memories: the where…the who…the how to become more important than the ones you’re making now. Live life in person; inhabit every day. You may not like where you are now, but you’re there anyway! A lifetime is a puzzle, every f...

Seems like someone is just trying to stay newsworthy! This guy values privacy???!!!  Snowden?  The same guy that sells secrets of his own country to another country???    Seriously? *~*~*~*~*~*~* Edward Snowden's Christmas Message: a child born today will have no conception of privacy A child born today will grow up with no conception of privacy at all,” Edward Snowden warned Wednesday in a message broadcast to U.K. television viewers. ”They’ll never know what it means to have a private moment to themselves, an unrecorded, unanalyzed thought,” said Snowden, famous for leaking documents from the U.S. National Security Agency that reveal just how much of what we say, write and do is already recorded and analyzed. ”That’s a problem because privacy matters. Privacy is what allows us to determine who we are, and who we want to be,” Snowden said in “video message” recorded for Channel 4, a commercially funded public service broadcaster owned by the U.K...