The Mindful Farmers Daily Diary Day 964

Good morning everyone and welcome to Ballinwillin House Farm, Gardens and RetrEat centre. This morning earlier I was listening to Brendan O Connor on the radio as I was driving along mindfully and very peacefully. I listened for a while as he interviewed Bono who made a statement that "nothing is as it seems in this world." Now, you can take this any way you like but to me as a farmer and one who was born and reared in rural Ireland "everything was as it seemed" and had to be taken for such as we were all busy with our lives, surviving, working hard and most of us God fearing and respecting people. None of us tried to play God as Bono seems to do or that is my reading of him anyway. Maybe initially wrong here but I get a little bit stirred up in my peacefulness when I hear so called famous people like Bono on the radio quite frequently pontificating to us. I would much prefer to listen to a woman with a houseful of children telling us how she survives or a farmer who works seven days a week making a minimum wage in all kinds of weather. We are still a proud island people with a great work ethic. We need to hear stories from real people who are living in our little country and paying taxes in our little country. I don't think I am being unreasonable here and that is why I have put pen to paper, taking deep breaths and slowly returning to my peace and mindful state. I will continue to pray for you all and send blessings, peace, hope, love and happiness to all who listen and need it.

The Mindful Farmer

Patrick