Nearly a year later

I have been recovering from my father's death, from a stray cat bite and rabies shots, and MS getting worse, and lately a speeding ticket that I am certain I didn't deserve. International disasters have happened since I last posted -

• oil gushing into the water from a broken oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico;
• earthquakes in Haiti;
  
• earthquakes in Chile;
  
• earthquakes in Indonesia with a tsunami;
  
• even a 3.9 earthquake in New York City;
  
• "eruption of the Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajökull in April created a giant ash cloud, which at one point covered most of Europe. The spread of the ash in the atmosphere created fiery red sunsets and brought international aviation to a temporary standstill, resulting in travel chaos for tens of thousands. The plume was so electrically charged that it made its own lightning" (quote from http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40831566/ns/technology_and_science-science/, Brett Israel);
  
• volcano in Indonesia;
  
• tornado in New York City;
  
• a winter blizzard in the midwest and northeast and snow over most of the country;
  
• so far in 2011 dead fish and birds everywhere (people claim they are disasters);
  
• shift of Earth's magnetic pole;
  
• flood in Queensland, Australia;
  
• earthquakes in New Zealand;
  
• earthquakes and tsunami in Japan, wrecking nuclear power plants; with the tsunami damaging much of the United States' west coast;
  
• and lately the tornadoes that ripped through the South a few days ago, mostly North Carolina, and killed people from Oklahoma to the East Coast.
• 33 miners in Chile survived for two months underground and their rescue captivated the world.
  

A lot has been going on all over the planet. I think a lot has always been going on, it's just that now with international communications being as light-speed and public as they are, we just know about more of it sooner. Some think it is the sign of the end times, with the imminent return of Jesus. Maybe so, I won't discount that, but the fact is if people didn't live in the places where these things happened, they wouldn't be considered disasters.