Citizenship.

The industry of distraction

Makes us forget

That we live in a universe.

We have become converts

To the religion of stress

And it’s deity of progress.

That we may have the courage

To turn aside from it all

And come to kneel down before the poor,

To discover what we must do,

How to turn anxiety

Back into anger,

How to find our way home.

[Excerpts from John O’Donohue’s To Bless the Space Between Us]