Wars, Worse Than Hell

Rejoice, O young man in thy youth...(Ecclesiastes 11;9) More than 55,000 American soldiers, average age, 19-years-old were killed in the Vietnam War.

'I'm glad you have a one-day peace in Vietnam because of Christmas. I hope that you could have peace there all the time,' Larry Jacobs, 6-years-old wrote in 1972.

For the children of war, hunger, fear and death are as regular as the seasons. To see children of war, is to seek peace. The Vietnam War is not unique in its sacrifice of the young, think of all the children who died in World War I and World War II.

Think of all the children who died in the gas chambers of Auschwitz, Dachau and Bergen-Belsen during World War II, The Atomic Bomb that killed very young kids in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, yes, think. Betty Jean Lifton & Thomas C. Fox wrote in their 1972 book, "Children Of Vietnam."

On Aug, 5, 1945, the U.S. dropped the uranium A-bomb on Hiroshima. The U.S. dropped the same bomb on Nagasaki just four days later that same year.  https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/jul/24/secondworldwar.japan

The two bombings killed well over a 125,000 innocent people. The A-bomb raised the surface temperature to 4,000-degrees Celsius, and the intense and ferocious heat vaporized its victims, including children whose internal organs boiled and their bones were charred into brittle charcoal, yet the insanity of humanity allows wars to carry on.

"We do not ask to be rich. We ask only that our family gather together at night and sleep together in peace," a Vietnamese woman with a husband and children said. A quote from the the book, "Children of Vietnam."

In the 1960s and early 70s, it was common for Vietnamese children to lose their arms and legs to American bombings, to be shot in the cross-fire of brain washed soldiers, seen two or three to a hospital bed with burned skin from Napalm, while other children stepped on exploding land mines.

'If only the children could have had the stars, the flowers and the butterflies, instead of the war,' Phuong Trieu wrote in "The School On the Front Line."

Freaks and geeks, we futility fantasize about a world without wars, but the harsh reality of the very rich profiting endlessly from wars will never end, greed rules, sad to say.

"Humanity is mad! What a massacre...Hell cannot be so terrible, men are mad!" a French officer from World War I said.

The poor across the universe need to stop feeding into the lies our sadistic world leaders tell the media, and cease fighting in the trench laden battle fields, and end all bombings. My dreams are old, but I'll always prefer flowers and sunshine over war, and wish that every child in the world could be safe.

"It's utter craziness and so frustrating to watch our leaders operate with so little regard to human life," Jesse Ventura said in his 2010 book, "American Conspiracies."  

Write Handed III

Sour faces in too many places. Solitude solutions enhance 

creative resolutions. Clever creatures of the night scurry 

in the leaf laden woods adjacent to the suburbs. 

The dreamer treks the moon lit pebbled trails. 

Tonight's trees trounce the hate and summon joy. 

Izzy Schurr

Write Handed II

Drift into the darkness, flee from the hateful hearts that are 

eager to destroy laughter and joy. Nights marvelous mist 

soaks the soul with all that is good and drowns 

 unwarranted judgment. Caged creativity plots its 

escape from the powerful prisons of work 

that cloud imagination and fuel hatred. 

Izzy Schurr

Beeware

In 2016, Bees were placed on the endangered species list, a first in the U.S., bees pollinate fruits, nuts and vegetables, about 80 percent of our food supply.

Bees, the champion pollinators of the world also feed the ecosystem, which nourishes the plants and all the other animals of the world. Some people claim that Albert Einstein said the human race would be extinct in four or five years once all the bees are gone. http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/01/us/hawaii-bee-species-endangered/index.html

The above Web page also states that in the U.S., a University of California study discovered that more than a 150 different chemical residues were found in bee pollen and habitats across the nation. Pesticides not only effect bees physically, but mentally as well. Pesticides harm a bees reproductive system and also disorients their minds to the point where they can't find their hives or colonies.

It's so easy to create a bee habitat, even have your own hives in your yard to the point where it would be wise to wear a bee keepers outfit. In my case, I went the much simpler route. I purchased flowers that where bee friendly, any local gardening center makes it easy to find out which types of flowers bees are attracted to.

Flowers that bloom successively over the spring, summer, and fall seasons such as coreopsis, Russian sage, or germander provide pollen and nectar for native bees of all seasons according to a March, 2011 article, "How Can You Help The Bees? http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/silence-of-the-bees-how-can-you-help-the-bees/36/Bee

Providing fresh water daily for bees abundant with rocks and twigs lets the bees know the water is for them. Since I started my small bee endeavor last year, I am seeing more and more bees in my yard, so appease the bees. Bees don’t discriminate between weeds and cultivated flowers, so let those dandelions grow. And of course keep your bee garden free of pesticides.

Write Handed

The judgeless currents of liquid night transport my 

soul into the regions of understanding and 

acceptance. The dark foliage that decorates 

the night trails shrouds chaos and confusion. 

Lady nights black embrace satisfies 

the solitude. 

Izzy Schurr

Beautiful Bears

Just recently in May, I was at a state park about 30 minutes south of Placerville. While driving on a one lane road surrounded by woods, I saw my first real life big bear. I stopped the car, grabbed my camera and ran after the bear trying to get a picture. The adult bear had its back to me the whole time. The bear dusted me in seconds as it speeded off the road and into the woods. An adult bear can weigh more then 2000 pounds and run up to 40 mile an hour, and it was afraid of me.

While reading the article "How Do I Become A Big Bear?" in the July issue of Ideas & Discoveries magazine, I leaned that if a bear is facing you, it's best not to look it in the eye, and to also to raise your arms in an attempt to make yourself look a big as possible. The article states, that if it's a full grown bear, it's most likely not going to be intimated by you at all, in such a case, the article advises you not to run, and back away slowly, avoiding eye contact.

When your out in the wilderness of a state park, or any hiking trail for that matter, it's best not to be alone, and if you have a small child with you, keep them close by, mountain lions especially like to prey on the very young.

Alone or not, while hiking, make lots of noise. In the distance trails of civilization when I'm alone, I sing Rush songs loud, my horrible singing voice is enough to scare away any beast!

Rattle snakes, lions and even bears are afraid of humans, if they hear you, they run (slither) off or stay out of your site. (In theory)

Female bears are awesome, it's the sole reason bears are smart and live on. Baby bears are born blind and about the size of an adult squirrel. At first, cubs live off their mothers milk, then as they grow older, the mother teaches them how to catch fish with their paws or mouth, and which fruits in the forest are edible and which ones are poisonous. The female also teaches the cubs how to climb trees and swim.

Polar bears have got to be the swimming champions of the world, an adult polar bear can swim for up to 200 miles without a break, but it's Michael Phelps who gets most of the credit for being a great swimmer.    

Crevasses of Creativity

Vivid colorful dreams of sheer delight make it more difficult to awake.  

My minds 126,000 light years away from Earth. Andromeda, the only galaxy moving toward Earth's solar system may contain what I'm seeking. Andromeda beckons me in deep rapid eye slumber, she's an inviting universe where I fit in and belong, a universe void of lies, wars, poverty and everything else evil and corrupt that pollutes the Earth.

The habitable planet in Andromeda's Galaxy breeds no evil, leaders, followers or shallow minds eager to destroy all that is beautiful and soulful. Love, laughter and creativity are currency amidst Earth's neighboring galaxy. Deep dreams drive a dweebs desires...   Izzy Schurr, aka, me

The corridors of chaos are leading my mind into the unknown realms of a fantasy world. A world where combat soldiers drink and dine with their enemies on the combat field, world leaders and their money have no say, nor do they rule, world leaders in the 5th dimension are merely dust on the bottom of our shoes.

Driving myself insane trying to explore the countless craters of creativity that harbor in my mind. The distributor of death, aka, The Grim Reaper is nothing to fear, its dark luminous eyes meet mine in the speckled dark streets of sleeping suburbia and ignores me again...  Izzy Schurr