Charlie Wyzanski '59 Boosts Class Morale

Alumni Board member and Class Correspondent Charlie Wyzanski '59 shared with us a note that he sent to his class and, with his permission, we are sharing it here with the broader community hoping it brings some comfort. Thank you, Charlie!

Dear Classmates,

I still remember in third grade how we were taught to protect ourselves from an atomic bomb attack by ducking and hiding under our desks. Maybe some of what we are now being asked to do will prove no more effective. However, we did get through and it helped that we were all together.
We're not so young anymore. Indeed, I'm told we're old! Yet I daresay it still helps to be together, even if only via video calls and email.  A cousin of mine sent me this meditation by Kitty O'Meara not long ago. I find it very uplifting.

And the people stayed home. And read books, and listened, and rested, and exercised, and made art, and played games, and learned new ways of being, and were still. And 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, mindless, 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.