gather evidence that people are worth loving

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/may/10/palestine-israel-peace-campaigners

‘“I remain an optimist,” she said. “After all, if you had told me in 1967 when I left South Africa that one day whites and blacks would sit together in the same room I would have thought you were mad.” As mad perhaps as if she had been told that a Palestinian ex-revolutionary would become one of her closest friends.

..There is a palpable sense that she and Awwad complete the other in some way, offering some consoling echo of what has been lost. Theirs is a friendship that only appears unusual when individuals are reduced to labels and tribes; and yet when Ali Abu Awwad and Robi Damelin are viewed not as Israelis and Palestinians, Jews and Muslims, but rather as a son and mother, the relationship begins not to feel unlikely at all.‘

http://www.marginalia.org/dfw_kenyon_commencement.html

_{I’m sorry it took this for me to start looking up your work – I just never got round to it somehow. I hope you have peace, wherever you are.}