a time in history

Monday 4th April 2020: 

My GP friend has been doing home visits in amongst her remote consultations with patients. They were all palliative covid patients. It seemed so wrong she said.

I read another moving piece:

"And People Stayed Home:

And people stayed home
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." 

The poem's author Kathleen O'Meara wrote this after the famine in 1869.  And never was it so true of our year 2020.