The story is also about love, since love and sex often become tightly intertwined. It is a love story with a wider horizon. In the conventional world of privatized love and privatized sex the horizon is tragically kept small. In this world the Principle of Universal Love appears as distant as a fairy tale, but becomes extraordinary when it is allowed to unfold. In the world of universal love the scene becomes richer than in the privatized world, but also scarier and far more challenging as universal principles take the place of age-old conventions and trained emotions. This world becomes especially challenging when children enter the scene.

The way we begin to look at children in the story reflects the higher-level world of universal love? In the privatized world we speak of 'our' children as though we created them and own them. How arrogant we've become in our small world! The protagonists discover that even biologically, our part in the process of procreating mankind is so minuscule in comparison to the complex processes that are involved in the creation of a new human being that our part in it is barely worth the mentioning. We can then speak of 'our' children only in the universal sense, in terms of all children being the children of our humanity. That’s a vision they share, and regard one-another in this context, even in terms of sex. Aren’t we all children of an all-encompassing universal humanity that we are a part of?

That's the dimension that the protagonists try to come to terms with. Against this background unfolds a love and sex story that reflects this remarkable dimensions in which the universal divisions no longer rule and dictate their terms.

The love and sex story, Gentle Winds, is a chapter of a the novel, Roses at Dawn in an Ice Age World, - Episode 2B of the series of novels, The Lodging for the Rose, by Rolf A. F. Witzsche.

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