Thursday, April 23, 2020

And People Stayed at Home

And people stayed at home
And read books
And listened
And they rested
And did exercises
And made art and played
And learned new ways of being
And stopped and listened
More deeply
Someone meditated, someone prayed
Someone met their shadow
And people began to think differently
And people healed.
And in the absence of people who
Lived in ignorant ways
Dangerous, meaningless and heartless,
The earth also began to heal
And when the danger ended and
People found themselves
They grieved for the dead
And made new choices
And dreamed of new visions
And created new ways of living
And completely healed the earth
Just as they were healed.

~ Kitty O'Meara, Wisconsin, 2020

Thursday, April 16, 2020

Minor Irritations

Are you paying too much attention to minor irritations?
Life is too short to be little.

~ Edge Learning Institute ~

Tuesday, April 14, 2020

Lighthouses

We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we won't need to tell anybody it does. Lighthouses don't fire cannons to call attention to their shining - they just shine.
                                              Dwight L. Moody



Wednesday, April 1, 2020

Fear and Hate

This world of ours... must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.
                                            Dwight D. Eisenhower

Sometimes