"And the people stayed home...."

“And the people stayed home.

And read books, and listened, and rested, and exercised, and made art, and played games, and learned new ways of being, and were still.

And listened more deeply.

Some meditated, some prayed, some danced.

Some met their shadows.

And the people began to think differently.

And the people healed.

And, in the absence of people living in ignorant, dangerous, mindless, and heartless ways, the earth began to heal.

And when the danger passed, and the people joined together again, they grieved their losses, and made new choices, and dreamed new images, and created new ways to live and heal the earth fully, as they had been healed."


   ~ Kitty O'Meara

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This text is attributed to Kathleen O'Meara, pen name Grace Ramsay (1839 - 1888), though some recently quoted other sources for it in the past few days.

Kitty O'Meara was an Irish-French Catholic writer and biographer during the late Victorian era, the Paris correspondent for The Tablet (a leading British Catholic magazine) and a writer for the Irish Monthly, which also published many of her serialised and biographical works. O' Meara also wrote works of fiction where she explored a variety of topics from women's suffrage to eastern European revolutions.  

What is more important is that it sounds so relevant for our times...