Healthy and Happy
Kitty O’Meara is an American writer and retired teacher.
This poem was written in the spring of 2020, during the coronavirus pandemic. At the time, most of the world was in lockdown. O’Meara’s message of hope and healing went viral on social media. Her words gave people comfort.
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The word viral comes from the word virus. When something goes viral on the internet, it spreads like a virus.
And the people stayed home. And they listened, and read books, and rested, and exercised, and made art, and played games, and learned new ways of being, and were still. And they 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, 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.
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STARTING POINT
Describe the photo on page 53. Write 2–3 sentences.
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