Pismo prijateljev Bleda z otoka Guernsey blejskemu županu Janezu Fajfarju

Prijatelj Guernsey-ja je naletel na pesem, napisano leta 1869 in ponatisnjeno med pandemijo španske gripe leta 1919. To je brezčasno ...

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.

(Kathleen O’Meara, 1869)

Fotografija je bila posneta v času španske gripe.

Prevod za vse, ki ne razumejo angleško:

In ljudje so ostali doma

In brali knjige

In poslušali

In počivali

In telovadili

In ustvarjali in igrali

In se učili novih načinov bivanja

In se ustavili in prisluhnili

Bolj globoko

Nekdo je meditiral, nekdo je molil

Nekdo je srečal svojo senco

In ljudje so začeli razmišljati drugače

In ljudje so zdravili

In brez ljudi, ki so živeli ignorantsko,

Nevarno, brezsmiselno in brezsrčno,

Se je tudi Zemlja začela zdraviti

In ko se je nevarnost končala in 

Ko so ljudje našli same sebe

So žalovali za mrtvimi

In izbirali nove priložnosti

In sanjali nove vizije

In ustvarili nove načine življenja

In popolnoma ozdravili Zemljo

Točno tako, kot so bili ozdravljeni sami. 

(Kathleen O’Meara, 1869)