The Mindful Farmers Daily Diary Day 184

Good morning everyone and welcome once more to Ballinwillin House Farm and gardens on another beautiful September morning and day 79 out of lock down. The Mindful Farmer is slowing down for a few days after 6 months of continual work and strife. I am consciously slowing down and I practice this carefully, slowing down my speech, slowing down my breathing, slowing down my walking, slowing down my talking, slowing down my eating. I just want to live in the complete now, slower, steadier and letting the pace perfume my mind. When I look out at the pink and purple landscape that adorns the canvas as it floats towards the blue and murmuring sea. This is the life. This is the land. This is the sea. We must all live in the present. Stop dreaming of what life might be in its differences. Enjoy the now – it is all we have. Listen in deep silence, sink into the deep peace that waits for you beyond the frantic, riotous thoughts and sights and sounds of this insane would and let us fill our hearts with compassion for ourselves and each other.

Continue to pray, bless and heal each other and wear your beautiful smile.

The Mindful Farmer

Patrick