If Certain Countries Leaders Were Serious About Peace They'd Stop Making And Selling Weapons Of Mass Destruction...

It's a fantasy but it's not rocket science.
If the top ten weapon manufacturing and exporting countries, the US, Russia, Germany, France, China, United Kingdom, Italy, Israel, Sweden and the Ukraine ceased making armaments, the world would be
a better place.
It's a shame they don't walk the talk.
The reason these countries make and sell weapons is because of money. Masses of it.
In this fairy story we see the presidents and prime ministers of all these countries that manufacture arms, invited into a very large stadium, you know, like the Colosseum.
Then they are shot.
With their own weapons of course.
That would then self destruct.
And then the world would be a better place.
And we'd all live happily ever after...

Allie and Kevin, Urban Refugees And Hippies From Wayback...

While Freedom Camping at Te Awanga in the Hawkes Bay in recent months, I've been lucky enough to meet many interesting folk and and a few kindred spirits too, as they pass this way.
Allie and Kevin turned up from Dannevirke, an hour or so south of here, to enjoy the beauty of the area and parking in such close proximity to the sea as they head north.
It's the beach that weeps with deserted waves Allie writes, we sleep there because we know we'll be safe there.
Kevin's been living the dream for about ten years and the property he shares with Allie is back to basics. Off grid living with Solar power, composting toilet and laundry done in a bucket before it's put through an old fashioned wringer and hung out to dry in the breeze.
Their vegetable garden supplements their food supply and life is good.
Living outside the system Kevin says is even better than good.
Allie's been on the road since the seventies in a variety of housetrucks and buses. She's currently got a house on the back of a flatbed truck. She's a writer of poetry with some thirty books having been published and used in the New Zealand school system. She's also an artist and a wonderful craftsperson and for many years worked and travelled with New Zealand's famous Gypsy Fair.
I'm delighted there's now a few of Allie's pieces enhancing my tiny home, adding to my collection of original New Zealand art.
Until we meet again. Love and Peace...

The Joys Of Peace And Freedom Of Choice...

I realise how fortunate I am, how lucky to be freedom camping at Tokerau Beach in New Zealand's Far North.
As I've said before, it's one of the most beautiful places on the planet.
We've just recently enjoyed the winter solstice and a period of short days and long nights.
There's been the usual storm or two but as you can see, there's been calm, sunny,
summer-like days too.
No matter the weather, nature's beauty nourishes my soul and provides a buffer and a stark contrast to the storms of man's inhumanity to man that prevails in much of this so called civilized world.
Where others are protesting to pursue their own preferred way's of life, peace and freedom of choice...

What Hope Is There For The World...

What hope is there for peace in our world?
Here we see North Koreans newest batch of future soldiers training for revenge on the US.
Eleven year old boys with shaven heads at the Mangyongdae Revolutionary School learning how to hate, learning how to fight and learning how to kill.
What hope is there...