The Mindful Farmers Daily Diary 317
Good morning everyone and welcome once more to Ballinwillin House Farm, gardens and RetrEat centre on day 27 of our latest lock down. This morning the neighbourhood is cold with the winter freeze but soon we will experience the death of winter and the birth of spring, but also this morning in Ballinwillin we mourn the death and passing of Joe Mulcahy our neighbour, a legend in the music business and a founding member of the famous Maurice Mulcahy Band. A band that gave huge enjoyment to thousands of people worldwide. This morning our prayers are with his family, friends and neighbours. Now destiny calls Joe to a place of music where his trumpet will sound again for all our spiritual enjoyment, where his heart will always remain generous, all heavenly doors will open to his musical light as you now quietly befriend your death and you have no need to fear. You are among your own orchestra in the big band with your pure white suit you are now equal to your destiny and nearer to Earths heart. Rest in peace Joe. Continue to pray, bless and power healing to all who need it and wear your smile.
The Mindful Farmer
Patrick
The Mindful Farmer's Daily Diary - Day 20
Good morning to you all and welcome once again to Ballinwillin House Farm, home of The Mindful Farmer & family. You know when this year began 2020 I had a great feeling about the year 2020’s round figures, the scene was set, the business was booming and then bang! We are now on day 20. Is this our peak?
20TH OF APRIL IN THE YEAR 2020, IS THIS DAY A TURNING POINT?
Good morning to you all and welcome once again to Ballinwillin House Farm, home of The Mindful Farmer & family. You know when this year began 2020 I had a great feeling about the year 2020’s round figures, the scene was set, the business was booming and then bang! We are now on day 20. Is this our peak?
I hope so. Last night I was watching Miriam O Callaghan on the late late show and she interviewed Joe Wicks and his amazing fitness regime. It is a great help to all now if we could get his followers to say a daily prayer as well as exercising – what a difference that would make to the world.
Then a little later on the show Gavin James sang some wonderful songs but the amazing coincidence here is that he headlined here on our farm at Indiependence 2019 just like Bifi Kiro, Hozier, The Coronas and many more great bands all headlined here on the farm over the past number of years as did Mary Black and Brendan Grace back in 1995 and Boyzone before that.
There are a lot of memories and history flooding in. I often wonder how all this happened from my childhood in West Limerick to my living an adult life in north Cork. I put it all down to prayer and destiny in Nature.
Nature – it is a great motivation, it has gentle motherly movements with soft whispering winds, soft sprinkling rains, warm sunshine, buzzing bees and floating perfumed petals from the 105 rose bushes in the garden. But alas nature has another side, it has incredible power to harm and hurt like earthquakes, thunderstorms, flooding just like what I spoke to you about on the farm yesterday. Nature also spins you in a constant cycle of death, pain, and disease just like Covid19 now.
When I sit here this morning frightened by this awesome power of nature and yet its gentle and loving side also instills in me the belief that we must live in it and behave within it and not invoke its anger.
Does nature reflect our own potential for gentleness and also our ability to be destructive? Is this the message of Coved19? It is now time for us to fully live in nature. You will live in harmony and peace will come dropping but maybe slowly.
The Mindful Farmer’s heart is very very heavy and thus I hear my beautiful granddaughters voice in the thinking path, I am a new man.
Talk later out in the fields. Continue to pray, bless and mind each other. We are near that turn on the road.
The Mindful Farmer
Patrick