Birds fall from the sky due to "blunt force trauma" in Arkansas, Louisiana and now Sweden. Fish die in Arkansas while the Victoria River in Canada runs bright green. The New Madrid fault in the Midwest seems to be awakening (thanks, Debra, for the information). Bats die off in Tucson. And honeybees have been dying off for some years. All the experts have a theory. All the theories have to do with some incredible explanation as to why this is happening. Last I read, there's now speculation that some phosgene gas was introduced into the atmosphere. And that would explain all these creatures dying? Maybe in Arkansas but why does it seem to be species-specific (except LA, where it was several types of birds)?

I really do not buy into conspiracy theories or end of the world garbage. I tend to use logic to work out what may have happened in any particular situation, even if logic doesn't seem to be appropriate for any kind of explanation. But all of this happening is just "strange" - and it may be, in my unique mindset of paranoia and talking to spirits, that there could perhaps be something happening well beyond what our modern and educated society might want to truly comprehend. What's all this mean? Hell if I know, but here's what I am seeing from way up here at a high altitude on the side of a mountain:

The critters here have spent the last four months wandering all over these hills and I am grateful to see them about once a day. For the past two weeks, they have not gone more than 20 feet from me. Mule deer, whitetail deer, bighorn sheep, rabbits. They are all camped right here. Since I moved here I have enjoyed a quiet evening conversation with God and with some Lakota spirit guides who seem to like my company. Lately? None of them are saying much. I suddenly hear from people who I knew back in society. All of them want to escape to this place. All of them? How odd....

I suppose that we will all find out what's happening on this planet soon enough. And, while I do not want to sound like I perhaps did something for others by moving way up here (I did not, I moved to keep myself sane), I am quite flattered that others would like to follow this path. Whether I am in a better place to survive whatever comes, I do not know. But I do know, without a doubt, that peace and God both live here.

You all take care of yourselves back in the flatlands.