Dear Humans: An Imagined Letter from Covid-19 by Kristin Flyntz
When Corona was first starting to hit the headlines, we began to wonder what we, as creatives, could do to help. We noticed that there was a really lovely poem being shared around Whatsapp groups and Messenger, that took the form of a letter from the virus. It was something that really struck a chord with our whole team, so we decided to contact the author Kristin Flyntz. (www.darkmatterwomenwitnessing.com)
By the wonder of modern technology, using Linked-In I was able to send her a message and she agreed to send us a recording of her reading it.
We passed this recording to Tom Barter, our genius editor, and gave him the opportunity to have a free reign and use whatever images he felt inspired to create in response. And that, with some additional ideas from Kristen herself, is what has come together to become this animation.
This is a project that was created by people sitting isolated in their houses, thousands of miles apart but we hope that it will serve to bring people together, behind a common message.
To use this time to slow down and reflect.
To look at what is unhealthy in their lives,
and find a way to treat themselves, the things they care about and of course the planet as a whole, with greater compassion, consideration and love.
So please, if right now you just need a moment of calm.
Then pause from your day.
And take five minutes to listen for yourself.
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The poem in full
Stop. Just stop.
It is no longer a request. It is a mandate.
We will help you.
We will bring the supersonic, high speed merry-go-round to a halt
We will stop
the planes
the trains
the schools
the malls
the meetings
the frenetic, furied rush of illusions and “obligations” that keep you from hearing our
single and shared beating heart,
the way we breathe together, in unison.
Our obligation is to each other,
As it has always been, even if, even though, you have forgotten.
We will interrupt this broadcast, the endless cacophonous broadcast of divisions and distractions,
to bring you this long-breaking news:
We are not well.
None of us; all of us are suffering.
Last year, the firestorms that scorched the lungs of the earth
did not give you pause.
Nor the typhoons in Africa,China, Japan.
Nor the fevered climates in Japan and India.
You have not been listening.
It is hard to listen when you are so busy all the time, hustling to uphold the comforts and conveniences that scaffold your lives.
But the foundation is giving way,
buckling under the weight of your needs and desires.
We will help you.
We will bring the firestorms to your body
We will bring the fever to your body
We will bring the burning, searing, and flooding to your lungs
that you might hear:
We are not well.
Despite what you might think or feel, we are not the enemy.
We are Messenger. We are Ally. We are a balancing force.
We are asking you:
To stop, to be still, to listen;
To move beyond your individual concerns and consider the concerns of all;
To be with your ignorance, to find your humility, to relinquish your thinking minds and travel deep into the mind of the heart;
To look up into the sky, streaked with fewer planes, and see it, to notice its condition: clear, smoky, smoggy, rainy? How much do you need it to be healthy so that you may also be healthy?
To look at a tree, and see it, to notice its condition: how does its health contribute to the health of the sky, to the air you need to be healthy?
To visit a river, and see it, to notice its condition: clear, clean, murky, polluted? How much do you need it to be healthy so that you may also be healthy? How does its health contribute to the health of the tree, who contributes to the health of the sky, so that you may also be healthy?
Many are afraid now.
Do not demonize your fear, and also, do not let it rule you. Instead, let it speak to you—in your stillness,
listen for its wisdom.
What might it be telling you about what is at work, at issue, at risk, beyond the threats of personal inconvenience and illness?
As the health of a tree, a river, the sky tells you about quality of your own health, what might the quality of your health tell you about the health of the rivers, the trees, the sky, and all of us who share this planet with you?
Stop.
Notice if you are resisting.
Notice what you are resisting.
Ask why.
Stop. Just stop.
Be still.
Listen.
Ask us what we might teach you about illness and healing, about what might be required so that all may be well.
We will help you, if you listen.
-Kristin Flyntz 3.12.2020
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