The Mindful Farmers Daily Diary Day 133

Good morning everyone and welcome once more to Ballinwillin House Farm and gardens on another Sunday morning and a day of rest, mindfulness and peace. Today is day 28 out of lock down. This morning during meditation I bent my thoughts as they strayed towards my “ancestors” and the Thinking Path at Ballinwillin House is flooded with spirits of my ancestors. An ancient bloodline flows from past generations until it reaches and creates us in the now. Blood holds, carries and gives life. Recently we had a beautiful family gathering and as I glanced across the room I thought how incredible was the multiple streams of ancestry, memory, shadow and light and I thought how our home and many homes love the opportunity to host the arrival and presence of history and in the departing creates a new destiny. I often say at these gatherings once you all report to your distant destinies I will still be able to hear your soft sweet voices bouncing from the walls and into my heart and yet I know full well ultimately and proximately it is our ancestors who have called us here. We belong to their lifeline. Today, this beautiful Sunday, let your minds stray as far back as you can go on the trail of your ancestors, hold them in your minds eye, say a little prayer with them and continue to bless and send healing to each other and wear that infectious smile.

The Mindful Farmer

Patrick