True and uplifing. Thank you.
Barbara Hilburn
On Apr 9, 2020, at 1:19 PM, Paul Petrich (Redacted sender "ppetrich39" for
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Paul Petrich Jr
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“In the end it is not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in
your years.”…Anonymous
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Subject: Poem for the Ages!
Date: April 9, 2020 at 1:15:01 PM PDT
History repeats itself. This poem was written in 1869 during a cholera
epidemic, reprinted during 1919 Influenza Pandemic.
This is Timeless....
It was written in 1869 by Kathleen O’Mara:
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.
Reprinted during Spanish flu
Pandemic, 1919
