Our Children Are Ours

At the end of last April, my wife visited our daughter, who is pursuing her university studies in France. We were supposed to visit her together. However, I had to postpone my visit to a later date. What relieved me of the pain of my daughter’s objection to this postponement was that we will meet, mid-summer, God willing, at her older brother’s house. Will my other son meet us? Children are to live close to one another, both with us and after us. This is something superior to the interpretation of Gibran’s saying “your children are not yours”, which sets the children free, on earth, free from everything! Is Gibran responsible for this interpretation, is it his intention or influence, or is it Lebanon’s incomprehensible policy? It is not wise to cover up the sick policies, that want our countries to be empty, with the words of the great ones. Our children are ours. My wife spent ten days in France. You should have seen her after she returned to us. Her eyes were more eloquent than everything left by the writers and their interpreters.