California Wildfires ~ Devastation

California Wildfires ~ Devastation

BLOG SESSION

October 12th, 2017

Today is a new day, and we are looking at an image at the top of this Blog that is being seen in the state of California in more that one place, and in more than one city.  It is a grim scene in many areas, and in Sonoma County, authorities had to turn to dental records, fingerprints, tattoos and serial numbers on hip implants to identify victims.

I'm not sure if you have been following the news reports or not, or if you have been following along here on the Blog as we have been discussing the California wildfires, which don't seem to be going anywhere at the moment.

The question for all Blog Readers today is this:  Is this happening, along with devastating hurricanes, earthquakes, and general unrest in different Countries about political leadership because of incompetent leaders, global warming, dissatisfaction with life overall, or because of greed and evil?

As some people return to their homes, they are finding ashes -- for the most part, mainly ashes . . .

California Wildfires ~ Devastation

Fires are still raging on ~

California Firefighters are still working tirelessly

Air attempts to tackle the wildfires

The deadly fires have leveled thousands of homes and forced evacuations in Northern California's wine country.  In addition, the wildfires have produced unhealthy air quality in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Wildfires create worst air-quality in

San Francisco Bay Area (abc news)

The biggest fires in Northern California were far from contained.

There is the Atlas fire involving 48,000-plus acres in Napa and Solano counties ~ 27% contained.

The 44,000-acre Nuns fire in Sonoma County is an amalgamation of three recently merged fires north and west of Glen Ellen, and was listed as 5% contained.

Then, there is the 34,000-acre Tubbs fire in Napa and Sonoma counties which was 25% under control, and the 34,000-acre Redwood and Potter fires in Mendocino County which were 10% contained.

In terms of residential destruction, more than 2,800 homes have been destroyed by the wildfires in Santa Rosa, Mayor Chris Coursey told reporters on Thursday.  The number of destroyed structures in the state exceeds 3,500 Cal Fire has reported.

For your Journals and Diaries, on the California Wildfires, please make the following additional notes....

Journal/Diary Notes

History Notes for 2017:  List everything that has happened thus far this year that is making history.  In addition, make sure that you make a note of your frame of mind, your feelings about the environment, your thoughts about the leadership of your country, and your emotional as well as mental health at this time.

FOR YOUR RECORDS:

The California wildfires have burned more than 221,000 acres throughout California, and 17 fires remained as of Thursday, October 12th, 2017.

Winds are expected to be especially gusty Friday right through Saturday.  Those conditions, joined with low humidity, could spread the flames drastically, the National Weather Service warns.  No rain is expected for almost a week.

May everything that you put your hands to prosper, and may your mind, body and soul find peace in knowing that you are living your best life to the best of your abilities.

God bless ~

F R I E N D S

Until Our Next Blog Session ~

Peace, Love & Light

By René Allen

©Copyright - René Allen - 2014-2017 - All Rights Reserved

2017 California Fire Diary

2017 California Fire Diary

BLOG SESSION

October 11th, 2017

Welcome back Blog Readers, Followers & Visitors!

Good Afternoon everyone, we are welcoming all of the new Followers here to our Blog.  For those of you who are here for the first time, be sure to Bookmark the Blog, and sign up to follow by email over in the far right-hand column where it says, "Follow by Email".  Just add in your email address, and click the "Submit" button, and you will receive each Blog Session as it is published.  You'll be sure to stay up to date on what we are discussing here on the Blog if you follow by email.  And, you can best believe that each Blog Session will be something that will interest you!

Just a reminder that if you missed any past Blog Sessions, you can find all Sessions over in the far right-hand column in our "Blog Archive".  Simply click on any of the Sessions that you're interested in reading.  You may also just scroll down after reading any of our Blog Sessions online to see the previous few Sessions.

For those of you who are interested in keeping records of your life and of history, as we have discussed in previous Blog Sessions, it is of great benefit to Journal your life events, as well as keep a Daily Diary to record your life moments.  All Diary Writers, Journalists, and/or Historians, this Blog Session will be of special interest to you...

Record History in your Diary or Journal

Today's Blog Session will be a continuation of what we have been discussing in the past few Blog Sessions, which is the topic of the California wildfires, which are devastating the landscape and the lives of thousands of people, as well as ravaging homes and businesses.  The wildfires are unfortunately making natural disaster history in the state of California as the most devastating wildfires to date...

California Wildfires 2017

The firefighters are battling strong winds while trying to contain the fires.  Officials are making grim discoveries of bodies burnt beyond recognition as they search the blackened ruins left by wildfires scorching parts of Northern California.  "Some of them are merely ashes and bones," Sonoma County Sheriff Rob Giordano said at a Press Converence.  "And we may never truly get confirmative identification on ashes.  When you're cremated, you can't get an ID."

Thirty-one (31) people have been killed since the wildfires began last Sunday night, making this outbreak one of the deadliest in California state history, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.

Homeowners are coming back to their homes to find nothing more than ashes.  It is sad to see, and something that none of us would ever want to live through.

As you do your research on the California wildfires, write your diary entries, and save news clippings, also remember to add in all of the donations, assistance, good will, and prayers that have been contributed to those in need during this time inside your Diary or Journal.

Resources are limited, and firefighters are battling the fires with all their heart.  We again ask that you lift the firefighters up in prayer, as well as the people in the state of California.

F R I E N D S

We'll be back here on the Blog for more on the California wildfires in our next Blog Session.

California Wildfires ~ Devastation

Until we meet again here ~

Peace, Love & Light

By René Allen

©Copyright - René Allen - 2014-2017 - All Rights Reserved

More about The Diary of Anne Frank

More about The Diary of Anne Frank

BLOG SESSION

August 19th, 2017

Welcome back to another fascinating Blog Session!

We are going to be discussing more about The Diary of Anne Frank.  If you were here for our last Blog Session, then you have plenty of Journal notes about Anne Frank's Diary.

If you would, please pull out your Journal and get ready to jot down more information about a young girl's experience that started off as a simple Diary at the age of 13 years old, and turned into a famous literary work entitled, "The Diary of Anne Frank".

Journal Notes

Anne Frank died at the young age of 15.  She was one of more than 1 million Jewish children who died in the Holocaust.  It is such a horrific thought that it is hard to comprehend a child being killed at such a young age.  And to think that more than 1 million Jewish children were murdered is wickedness in action at the hands of demonic minded people who carried out horrifying acts.

Anne Frank & her mother, Edith Frank

Anne Frank was born Annelies Marie Frank on June 12, 1929 in Frankfurt, Germany.  Anne's mother was Edith Frank.  Anne also had a sister named Margot, who was three years her senior.

Anne Frank ~ Mother Edith Frank ~ Sister Margot Frank

Anne's father, Otto Frank, was a lieutenant in the German army during World War I, later becoming a businessman in Germany and the netherlands.  He was the only member of his immediate family to survive the concentration camps.  At the end of the war, he returned home to Amsterdam.  He searched desperately for news about his family.  On July 18, 1945, he met two sisters who had been with his daughters Anne and Margot at Bergen-Belsen and delivered the tragic news of their deaths.

Otto Frank with his two daughters,

Margot Frank and Anne Frank

When Otto Frank returned to Amsterdam, he found Anne's Diary, which had been saved by Miep Gies.  He eventually gathered the strength to read it.  He was awestruck by what he discovered and later had it published as a book.  "There was revealed a completely different Anne to the child that I had Lost,"  Otto wrote in a letter to his mother.  "I had no idea of the depths of her thoughts and feelings."

The Frank Family

(Margot Frank, Otto Frank, Anne Frank and Edith Frank)

About Anne Frank's Family

The Franks were a typical upper middle-class German-Jewish family living in a quiet, religiously diverse neighborhood near the outskirts of Frankfurt.  However, Anne Frank was born on the eve of dramatic changes in German society that would soon disrupt her family's happy and tranquil life, as well as the lives of all other German Jews.

The German economy struggled terribly in the 1920's due in large part to the harsh sanctions imposed on Germany by the 1919 Treaty of Versailles that ended World War I.  During the late 1920s and early 1930s, the virulently anti-Semitic National German Socialist Workers Party (Nazi Party) led by Adolph Hitler became Germany's leading political force, winning control of the government in 1933.

Otto Frank

  

In the words of Otto Frank . . .

"I can remember that as early 1932, groups of Storm Troopers came marching by, singing, 'When Jewish blood splatters from the knife',"  Otto Frank later recalled.  When Hitler became chancellor of Germany on January 20, 1933, the Frank family immediately realized that it was  time to flee.  Otto later said, "Though this did hurt me deeply, I realized that Germany was not the world, and I left my country forever."

The Franks moved to Amsterdam, Netherlands in the Fall of 1933.  Anne Frank described the circumstances of her family's immigration years later in her Diary:  "Because we're Jewish, my father immigrated to Holland in 1933, where he became the managing director of the Dutch Opekta Company, which manufactures products used in making jam."  After years of enduring anti-Semitism in Germany, the Franks were relieved to once again enjoy freedom in their new hometown of Amsterdam.  "In those days, it was possible for us to start over and to feel free,"  Otto recalled.

Anne Frank's schooling . . .

Anne Frank began attending Amsterdam's Sixth Montessori School in 1934, and throughout the rest of the 1930s, she lived a relatively happy and normal childhood.  Anne had many friends, Dutch and German, Jewish and Christian.  She was a bright and inquisitive student.

What brought about the change in Anne's life?

Anne's life changed on September 1, 1939, when Nazi Germany invaded Poland, igniting a global conflict that would grow to become World War II.  On May 10, 1940, the German army invaded the Netherlands, defeating Dutch forces after just a few days of fighting.  The Dutch surrendered on May 15, 1940, marking the beginning of the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands.  As Anne Frank later wrote in her Diary, "After May 1940, the good times were few and far between; first there was the war, then the capitulation and then the arrival of the Germans, which is when the trouble started for the Jews."

Yellow Star of David Badge

Beginning in October 1940, the Nazi occupiers imposed anti-Jewish measures on the Netherlands, Jews were required to wear a yellow Star of David at all times and observe a strict curfew; they were also forbidden from owning businesses.

Anne Frank and her sister Margot were forced to transfer to a segregated Jewish school.  Otto Frank managed to keep control of his company by officially signing ownership over to two of his Christian associates, Jo Kleiman and Victor Kugler, while continuing to run the company from behind the scenes.

OUR NEXT BLOG SESSION:

The Diary of Anne Frank

SECRET ANNEX

Until we meet again for our next Blog Session ~

Peace, Love & Light,

By René Allen

© Copyright - René Allen - 2014 - 2017 - All Rights Reserved