A post for journalists to tweet, facebook send, email, share, digg and pass on to other journalists, friends in government, politics, and leaders of community worldwide:
With all of the peace talk going on in Washington between key leaders of America and the Middle East (President Obama, US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton and Co), here’s more about a timely novel called Courage to Love by Robert Ellis that all serious journalists in the media could benefit from reading and commenting on.
I know on this blog, you’re very receptive to the novel’s message of love between centuries old enemies, who fall for each other as their love arose as they allowed the thorns of hatred in their fiercely socialized egos, to be fall away as the young hero and heroine transcend the socially prescribed behaviors of war, in this tale. Here’s words from the author.
“Courage to Love was written to make enemies friends. I am not naive enough to believe one love story can solve world problems – except for the fact that it solved this author’s problems with the world.
“The sleeping knowledge in this book needs to be told to each new generation to free them to make up their own minds about life.
“As I listened to the climax of the recording of the Courage to Love audio book, I listened to a frightened Arab teenager, her stern iman father, a stalwart American boy and his South Carolina Jewish parents, a Scottish Franciscan friar, an Egyptian doctor, both a Jordanian and an Irish nurse, and a Palestinian army general.
“I heard a symphony – composed of the truths of all the people around the world who had contributed to this book. Truth after truth. No arguments. No discords. Only truths that rang as bells.
“Throughout my life, my soul has seemed to record and mourn the numbers of soldiers and innocents who were killed in the wars of my time, from the Italian bombardment of Ethiopia and Spain in 1935-36, through the invasions of China, Czechoslovakia, WWII and the Holocaust, Hiroshima, Korea, Vietnam, the Middle East, Afghanistan and Iraq.
“To stop this slaughter, my soul extends to the world this desert rose. The author.”
Any good thing, given from a good soul, should be shared. Which is exactly why these words are on this Hollywood blog. Love starts in our own neighborhoods, in our own communities, in our own hearts. What is need is the courage to share it, test it, contest it, forgive past and current wrongs and misunderstandings with the courage to remain open, to dialogue, interact with those different to ourselves and to be fearless to pass love on. Let’s do it! Courage to Love.
~Posted by Horiwood.Com, Hollywood California USA. 9.8.10~
