Naomi wanted to reach out and touch her mother: to put her arms around her and hold her. Wanted to do anything to soothe her hurt. But the wall of reserve and constraint between them had not yet been fully breached, and she sat motionless, gazing at Julia. But despite her sympathy she thought “ I couldn’t have done that. I would never, never give up my baby: no matter what. Never!” But she was ashamed of having such thoughts, for this was not the time for facile, harsh judgements. It was a time... Sign in to see full entry.
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Fiction, poetry, articles and a whole lot of other Ariel's stuff ; musings and ponderings ; they're all here, and i hope you'll find something here that you like. But I have a deeper purpose in mind. See, reading the papers and watching TV, it's so easy to think that the whole world's motivated by racial and religious hatreds of various kinds. Well most of us aren't, are we? We ordinary people are moved by love and compassion for our fellow humans ; and respect and tolerance for their differences. It's true that all that it takes for evil to flourish is for good men to do nothing, so we who are motivated by love have a duty speak out against the evils of the world ; not to be ashamed of our histories, nor embarrassed about being and saying clearly what we are and what we believe. If we don't learn to love each other, we'll perish. Although I am an atheist, my guiding principle is, and always has been, Christ's adjuration to " Love thy neighbour as thyself"
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