Wars and Dogs and Teddy Bears
Cynophilists and andarctophiles are experts at collecting,
perhaps because they’ve flunked at other methods of connecting.
Wars are staged by countries that believe in hoarding arms.
Ironic that the means for hugs also maims and harms.
My recommendation is that those who make the rules
should be those sent to battle. Arm the presidents and fools
who start the wars—the despots and the senators and kings.
Then let them see what personal riches battle brings.
Let them take the chances fighting wars waged in their name,
so they are the ones slaughtered or made maimed or blind or lame.
The things that one collects should be what they are about
and what we put into the world be all that we take out.
Prompt words today are war, lame, arctophile, chance and recommendation.
Andarctophile, in cast you didn’t already know, is someone who loves or collects teddy bears. The term for those who love dogs is “Cynophilist”. And the love for a dog is called “Canophilia”.
lifelessons - a blog by Judy Dykstra-Brown 
Very powerful! Bravo! (and that little chihuahua? SO CUTE! 😍❤❤❤! Is that photo a personal one or one garnered off the web? Darling little doggie!
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One I took at a party.
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Awww! 💕
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I like your recommendation!
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Where do I sign to have the top people go to the front of the “line?”
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Can you imagine? I bet most of us would choose the same 8 or 10 people to be on the front line.
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I think you are right
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I am definitely both of those philes. Vince is the one who started me on the stuffed pets, actually. He overdid it, and now he wants to pare down. Here is the doll shop I was talking about. https://alwayswrite.blog/2016/08/09/a-must-see-oddball-shop-right-on-the-highway/
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I thought it was someone’s house you were talking about…this makes more sense.
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It IS her house! It’s also a shop.
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But she doesn’t live in the room where all the dogs are, I hope.
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I’m not sure, but the shop is her living and dining room. She and her sister both live there. We didn’t go beyond the dining room. but I did not see a place to sit down. So I’m guessing they live in the rest of the house.
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Oops.. I meant where the dolls are, not the dogs. Dogs on my mind lately.
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With that cutie pie, how could it be anywhere else. Zoe has the cutest face. I think it’s his big, big eyes. Cartoon eyes!
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In the olden times, kings did lead their armies into battles, so I don’t think that would solve the issue. A position of a Russian or Ukrainian leader is no less dangerous, than fighting on the front line. Remember the “Russian Flu” that struck 4 leaders one after another within two years? it’s people who are suffering, no matter what the leaders are doing there.
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And in olden times, they were schooled to lead in battle, as were their sons. Our rulers today mainly push pencils, get exemptions for their precious sons and let others do their fighting. With certain exceptions, who were not the ones who led us into war.
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I cannot agree more, Judy.
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This is spot on Judy. If like kings of old, these people fought in the wars of their own contriving, they’d think a million times before starting one.
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Amen. Unconscionable that they send young men to war for financial gain. There are times when it is necessary to defend ourselves but this has not often been the case.
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I don’t think that starting a war was ever necessary!
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