And People Stayed Home by Kathleen O’Meara during 1869 plague epidemic | Drops Of Time

and read books

and listened

and rested

and exercised

and made art

and played

and learned new ways of being

and stopped and listened deeper

someone meditated

someone prayed

someone danced

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,

even the earth began to heal

and when the danger ended

and people found each other

grieved for the dead people

and they made new choices

and dreamed of new visions

and created new ways of life

and healed the earth completely just as they were healed themselves.

Kathleen O’Meara, pen name Grace Ramsay (1839 Dublin — 10 November 1888 Paris) was an Irish-French Catholic writer and biographer during the late Victorian era. She was the Paris correspondent of The Tablet, a leading British Catholic magazine. Irish Monthly also published many of her serialized 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. The majority of her novels contained Catholic themes and social reform issues. -Wikipedia

Originally published at https://dropsoftime.com on April 30, 2020.