The Mindful Farmers Daily Diary Day 81

Good morning everyone and welcome once again to Ballinwillin House Farm and gardens. Another beautiful morning thank God. Another of a day in our life. Today I am going to talk to you about the gravest. Our harvest commences each year in the first week of June, weather permitting. We usually cut and save hay as it suits our organic type of farming and my father always said “hay is warmer in the winter time for all animals” and I believe this to be right. In the winter time when I roll out a bale of hay for the animals it is always exciting as there is a burst of flavour, wild herbs, flowers and grass. It reminds me of the opening of a nice Sauvignon Blanc and the aroma bursts out of you. That’s farming in my opinion and the excitement is the same for every bale of hay. So yesterday we cut our first crop of hay. It will take about 5 days or so and we turn it every day to dry it out then we bale it into big round bales and place them in the barn for the winter. How nice that we can bale this June flavour to be consumed over the winter months. That’s what makes Ballinwillin House Farm so special – only the best for my animals on the farm that bring me so much joy.

As I walked the fields yesterday of freshly cut grass there was a gently flow of fresh air and sun but as well as having to harvest the hay I was always mindful that I was harvesting the sounds, the moments, the history and the memories of the farm. I have been so lucky to have been taught that my first lesson for a home through the medium of nature and I was taught to walk lightly and naturally and mindfully along the land. I always say to visitors at Ballinwillin House Farm and gardens when they come to stay in the Bed and Breakfast that “The interplay between farmer and the elements is a poem without words”.

Continue to pray, bless and heal each other.

The Mindful Farmer

Patrick

The Mindful Farmers Daily Diary Day 78

Good morning everyone and welcome once again to Ballinwillin House Farm and gardens. Another beautiful morning and we are being blessed and showered with dazzling sunshine at this time. It is the beginning of another new month of June which could be a very deciding in our future in Ireland. We all enjoyed a very peaceful, relaxing and mindful weekend at Ballinwillin and I find peace and silence like a homecoming and it transcends all through and intellectual behaviour. Much of our own time and a lot of our mental energy is spent with work and trying to make ends meet and figure things out and when you look into your mind you see thoughts spinning round and round and you are going nowhere and accomplishing nothing. Now it is time to be still a while, control your thoughts, let a slow and warm light soothe into your mind and heart until you find that inner warmth that will spark your smile and ring that bell of being alive and in the now.

Continue to pray, bless and heal each other.

The Mindful Farmer

Patrick

The Mindful Farmers Daily Diary Day 73

Good morning everyone and welcome once again to Ballinwillin House Farm and gardens on this beautiful May morning. I love talking about May – it is a fabulous month of energy, growth, flowers and birth on the farm. Even during this pandemic it performs in general with consistence in the midst of change and knowing itself through nature since time immortal. This prompts the question that I am going to ask you this morning. How well do we know ourselves? Do we go through life like an aimless pedestrian not knowing the difference between delight or troubles? Does life happen on the surface? Is your mind separate from your life? Is there an unknown self breath and within your heart do you prefer the patterns of the dark and entangle yourself in unworthiness and misjudge what you do and who you are. One of the main aims of our mindfulness, meditation and forgiveness exercise is to bring us into the now. Know and recognise who we are and who we are really meant to be to see what we can do to the beauty of our souls and may our continued commitment to mindfulness release wellsprings of refreshment, inspiration and excitement. May every down find hope in your hearts and may every day fill the cup of your dreams and may every evening find you gracious and fulfilled and may you continue your lives blessed, sheltered and protected and may your soul calm, console and renew you and guide you safely home. Home to “ourselves”. Continue to pray, bless and heal each other and looking forward to joining you all at 2pm.

The Mindful Farmer

Patrick

The Mindful Farmers Daily Diary Day 67

Good morning everyone and welcome once again to Ballinwillin House Farm and gardens on this beautiful May morning. Today, and around this time for a while, The Mindful Farmer is poignant, reminiscent and a little sad as it is the 10th anniversary of the passing of my Mum, Elizabeth, a great, kind, humble and beautiful woman and a very hard working farming woman, knew nature, the land, livestock, a wonderful pudding and sausage maker and a master cook. I lived by her side you could say for my first 12 years especially in the morning times and then I would go with my Dad in the afternoons. I learned so much from this great woman. On her mortuary card the words inscribed are “ you laboured hard for those you loved and left us to remember”. I got my love for plants and gardening from her also and a section of the gardens at Ballinwillin House Farm is devoted and styled to her dream. I hope and pray Ireland continues to breed pure bred “Irish Mothers” as I remember them totally dedicated to the family cause. It is another question I am asking you out there, is Ireland producing such mothers nowadays? It may be a very controversial  question but one I feel I have to ask. Sure all mothers love their homes and family and children - is it the same? My heart tells me no. It is obvious something has changed the way we would answer this question but is society and its trends and tail wagging the dog for future Ireland. Enough about that now or Mam will be giving out to me and sometime when you are all here on retreat I will tell you of the horrific ordeal I had to endure on Mams passing. I was at the vineyard in Hungary in another lock down, “the ash cloud” and couldn’t get a flight home but it is too long a story and one for later. For today and for all mothers who have passed I want to remember them in our prayers and for my own Mam. I just want to say I remember most of your words and deeds, your soothing leaning voice, you were the first sound before we could see, your nearness always filled the air and still does at Ballinwillin House. You nurtured and fostered us in your space, formed from the depths of your heart, you knew us inside out. We will always remember you.

Today is World Meditation Day so be sure and take time out on your own in peace and meditate for a while. I am really looking forward to next Monday, May 25th when you will be joining me on the 3 day Mindfulness Challenge. We are getting a fantastic response and it is not too late to join us on my Facebook Private Group. So that is it for today. Pray for all Mams. Pray also for an end to Covid 19. continue to bless and heal each other.

The Mindful Farmer

Patrick

The Mindful Farmers Daily Diary Day 61

Good morning everyone and welcome once again to Ballinwillin House Farm and gardens on this beautiful morning. Yesterday was a very busy day on the farm and delivering orders to the Neighbour Food markets and I would like to say a huge thank you again to everyone that runs the markets because we would be fully closed without you all! I was thinking this morning on my rounds of the farm “what about the traveller who is not travelling now?”. In the past 20 years people were travelling huge distances across the world for business, for pleasure, for holidays, even for weekends away. But now how do we manage? Every time you leave home another road takes you into a world you were never in before. New strangers, new people, new places, but now when we are cocooning at home we might visit old places that know us well. But do we know much about these places that are so near to us? Are we afraid to visit the dark, strange space that is so easy to travel away from? During this time when we are not travelling, take time to discover more of your hidden life and the urgencies that desire to claim you. May you travel inward in an awakened manner. Do not waste any inner invitations that await you and that may transform your life and those around you. May you travel home to yourself refreshed and live your new life to its fullest. Return to yourself rich and free now that you can balance the gifts of days which you can call your own to yourself.

Continue to pray, heal and bless each other.

The Mindful Farmer

Patrick

The Mindful Farmers Daily Diary Day 60

Good morning everyone once more and welcome to Ballinwillin House Farm and gardens. Another beautiful morning here this morning following a very pleasant and fruitful day on the farm yesterday and then of course the celebration of new life with the birth of our first baby deer calf. It fills my heart with joy. I have been waiting for this moment since last year. The excitement of such a beautiful happening, the pure beauty and simplicity of nature, wild nature and its flow with the seasons, these calves are only born with the rhythm of nature. When the weather is warm the grass and growth and shelter are in total symphony so these beauties can blend in to their new home perfectly. Over the years we as farmers can go around in a whirl of frenzy, often trying to do many things at the same time or thinking one thing and doing another. This is no way to live or work. When you consider what nature expands to create such a beautiful creature like this, it is all in the balance of nature. Anything rushed or forced is not real or whole or even worth while. For such beautiful and wonderful happenings and birthings like this we need patience and time in nature. My hope and prayer for the rest of the month or so when more of these beauties are born, may they bring joy to the hearts of all who will visit to see them and their hearts (the visitors). Hear again the music in the last echoes of the neglected wonders of this world. My heart is so full of joy.

Continue to pray, bless and heal each other.

Before I finish this morning and maybe I should finish with this quotation every morning:- “may I have the courage today to live the life that I would love, to postpone my dream no longer but to do at last what I came here for and waste my heart on fear no more”

The Mindful Farmer

Patrick

The Mindful Farmers Daily Diary Day 59

Good morning everyone once again and welcome to Balllinwillin House Farm and Gardens on this beautiful morning. Listening to the news last evening gave me the topic for our conversation this morning. Water, this sacred source that we take for granted. As an island people we are surrounded by water. As a green island we get more than our fair share, yet last night they were talking about scarcity again. I always believed we should pay for water to gain its respect. On the farm we have our own organic wells and we are so thankful to God for that. In my childhood days, the well, the river, the ocean, all played a huge roll in my life. I often think about the persistence of the ocean, the courage of the river, always flowing and falling to the mouth of the ocean. I oftentimes believe that the river does what words would love to do. Keeping itself to itself no matter where it flows with rhythm and elegance, soothing until its music becomes audible. When we are blessing today let us bless the humility and supply of water, its innocence as it flows without thought or abandon, water vehicle and idiom of all the inner voyaging that keeps us alive. Blessed be the water. Blessed be our early mother. I have a huge and divine respect for all water and their wildness and beauty and our lifetime. I could talk and dream forever on the subject but for now continue to pray, bless and heal each other.

The Mindful Farmer

Patrick

The Mindful Farmers Daily Diary Day 58

Good morning everyone and welcome to Ballinwillin House Farm. Today is day 58 in The Mindful Farmers daily diary. Day 58 of lock down on the farm. It is another beautiful morning on the farm and in the gardens. Yesterday I found to be a very gratifying and peaceful day with lots of chats with wonderful people and friends who could be classified as one and one within my heart and yours. Today I am going to talk to you about the heart and as you know, as we say in Ireland, “that person has heart” or “that person has great heart”. I believe the human heart is made for praise, thanksgiving and love. This singular command is engraved in our hearts and whether we really understand this or not matters little, whether we agree or disagree makes no difference. But we know deep down our only joy is in living with a full heart. I cannot understand or comprehend any other kind of heart. We all know that the heart is restless until it finds in thee. So dance my heart, your heart, and dance today and every day with joy. Before I finish today I will be commencing a 3 day Mindfulness Challenge which will begin on May 25th. Details will be announced on The Mindful Farmers Facebook page later in the week. Really looking forward to it. Now, continue to pray, bless and heal each other and let your heart soar.

Regards,

The Mindful Farmer

Patrick

The Mindful Farmers Daily Diary Day 57

It is a lovely, bright fresh morning here on the farm but it is extremely cold. I always notice from living at the foothills of the beautiful Galtee mountain that around this time in May we always get a cold spell of weather and maybe it is Mother Natures way of reminding us that She is in charge and she will send the summer on her terms. This morning I am going to talk about who we are, the kind of people we are. This conversation was prompted by one of my followers yesterday. In my experience we learn who we really are at a very young age fostered in the home by parents, community and we also learn who we are from the way others acknowledge, accept and appreciate and believe in us. When we are acknowledged and affirmed our confidence grows. When we are accepted in spite of our limitations, we learn to see those limitations in perspective and not to be upset by them but rather rise above them. Our big challenge in life is to love others and respect others and to encourage them into living to their full potential and into growing to their full beauty. So when I say to you everyday to pray, bless and heal each other and be kind to each other you will do so eventually without even noticing. These beautiful practices will save the world.

The Mindful Farmer

Patrick

The Mindful Farmers Daily Diary Day 56

Good morning everyone and welcome once again to Balllinwillin House Farm. As usual on a restful Sunday morning I will take you on the garden tour so relax and settle in for the next few minutes and try and give yourself more time today to be yourself. Today I am going to talk to you about mindfulness and how I began practising mindfulness and meditation as a child and recovering from a very serious and suspected brain injury. Thankfully all went well and I slowly recovered but there was a lot of trauma in that recovery, fear, worry and above all being beaten and bullied in school because I was seen to be different headgear and a helmet for approximately 12 months. How I dealt with it by meditating on the farm by the river under trees and by dreaming and praying and with the help of a very loving mother and father and work on the land and dreaming about the future, my future, as a farmer albeit in an arcutious route. Sometimes when you are very young love might not be enough and without work ethic, skill, knowledge, it can be a hindrance. Sometimes people can be deeply wounded for various reasons by violence, abuse, depression and many other issues and may need professional help. In my situation o was lucky. I relied on prayer, love and dreams. The reason I am explaining my situation is that it may help people out there and sometimes people don’t have the adequate resources or channels and may need professional help to deal with the messages that spring through their minds on a daily basis. My point here is that it is an essential part of caring to be able to recognise when outside help is need. So, be mindful and watchful of people around you who are near and dear to you, friends, aquaintences, be prepared to help people especially in light of the darkness into light situation. When we  meditate we help our mental well being and it leads us into being mindful which is an all day, every day state of mind. So today, I ask for you to search for peace, joy and love and if you are not finding it immediately, pray for it and it will come.  Have a lovely Sunday.

The Mindful Farmer

Patrick

The Mindful Farmers Daily Diary Day 54

Good morning everyone and welcome once again to Ballinwillin House Farm on day 54. yesterday was a very busy day delivering to the Neighour Food markets and meeting all the fabulous people involved both hosts and suppliers and delivering around to the markets with sustainable organic venison, wild boar and goat meat gives me great pleasure and feeling that we are delivering healthy organic food to people who order our food. It makes a big difference to us and our survival and the survival of our wonderful co-workers. Today I would like to talk to you about the beauty I saw on the roads yesterday. Trees, shrubs, flowers, rivers, animals in the fields. There is even beauty in the weeds if we take time to look closely at them. What we have learned during these 54 days is that we don’t have to do everything. We don’t have to be the fastest or the most efficient. We don’t have to win or even participate in the rat race. What we have a duty to be is ourselves, what we were uniquely created to be. We must learn what our gifts are and we must reach out to everybody with joy and love, blessings and healings. So we must never loose out on an opportunity to admire the beauty on this earth, Mother Earth. This beauty is Gods handwriting “so picture it!”.

Continue to pray, bless and heal each other.

Warmest regards

The Mindful Farmer

Patrick

The Mindful Farmers Daily Diary Day 53

Good morning everyone and welcome once again to Ballinwillin House Farm. I must confess that yesterday was the first day that I really felt stressed out and we all know now about the saga with RTÉ and Donegal fake news. Even though I have been practising mindfulness for over 50 years, when you are attacked and the family is attacked and the very core of who you are and what you have achieved with your business, it causes so much stress it could kill and this is not said lightly. At times yesterday my heart was pounding so much I had to go to the meditation garden several times, more than I could count to recover. I thought fake news was so far away it could never affect Ireland and that it was an American phenomenon but alas it is alive and well in Ireland. Now that is enough of that and I am healing and that is what I am going to speak to you about this morning. First I would like to thank all the people, there were hundreds, who called, text and supported us on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter. Your support was huge and heart warming and we feel blessed with healing and support. When you receive a word of support it is like a circle of light drawn around you to protect, strengthen and heal you and you can feel yourself coming out and emerging from the trenches like a constant flow of emergence and the belief that healing is travelling through your body like the breath and following the breath it is peaceful. When we send healing to people we help them go beyond their present frontiers and their problems and a window opens presenting a bright blue sky. I urge you all to rediscover your power to heal. I know yesterday I was that soldier and I thank you all for digging me out of that dark trench.

Continue to pray,  bless and heal each other.

The Mindful Farmer

Patrick

The Mindful Farmers Daily Diary Day 34

Good morning everyone, The Mindful Farmer Patrick here. A fine soft morning here, that’s how they describe it in rural Ireland anyway. Beautiful, soft rain dropping  easily from the sky and all plants opening up joyfully to rescue its nourishment. A friend asked me to speak about rain last evening and also darkness and one of the messages on the Thinking Path says “when it rains look for rainbows, when its dark look for stars”. Well you know, I could see no stars in the sky last night but I know they were shining. I could not see any rainbows yesterday but was I blind? Where did my eyes linger? What dreams did I create? What differences did I notice in the ones closest to me? What and who did I neglect? What visitations did I get from the past and the future and there are many other questions where I would have failed and the final question is why was I given this day? My answer is as follows:- hope is daring and couragous and it has the audacity to reach a hand into darkness and come out with a fist full of light and convincing me and you that all will be well and all will  be well and all manners of things will be well but you must have that belief. This morning as I walked through the fields spring was in the air and in the fields I found a new courage for the day ahead, a new hope and I was able to pray. But if you are too angry to pray, sometimes it helps to turn to nature, for in nature we can find release that renews hope. Dream with the sunrise. Continue to breathe. Be the best you can be and you will be fine.

The Mindful Farmer Patrick sending sending hope and energy to you all.

God bless you all

The  Mindful Farmer

Patrick

The Mindful Farmers Daily Diary Day 33

Good morning everyone, The Mindful Farmer Patrick here again. It is a little wet here this morning in Ballinwillin House Farm. Yesterday again another very busy day, putting more deer into groups and out to spring grass, moved some wild boar into new paddocks and grouped some goats and their young kids into age groups. But all good healthy work also calling and delivering to Neighbour Food markets and sincere thanks to the people who are ordering these foods, it is a great help to enable us to survive.

What I am going to talk about this morning is planning and how we think we have control. I now think to myself what an eejit you were to be making all these plans. Where are they now? There is very little in our lives that we have full control over, even if we try and plan carefully, even the safest of people. But we can control the way we think and our attitudes and these can change everything.

What has been will be again!

What has been done will be done again and there is new under the sun.

This is new and the time to bring our own personal creative power to birth and we must be creative and fruitful as a precious person and unique in Gods eyes. We must be who we are called to be. Be content with what you have. Rejoice and in good time the world will belong to you again.

Continue to pray, bless and heal each other.

The Mindful Farmer

Patrick

The Mindful Farmers Daily Diary - Day 31

Another beautiful morning, good morning to you all. We had a great day yesterday. We weaned kid goats and put the deer in Johns mountain out to spring pasture and I took away stags as their antlers are growing now and in 6 to 8 weeks time they will be getting dangerous and need to be on the home farm where we have special handling facilities for them.

This morning as I was meditating my own mother came very forward in my thoughts and prayers standing in front of my mind and this old saying to my mind “you only have one mother so patient, kind and true. No other friend in all the world will be the same to you”. Her voice was the first sound I could hear before I could see. Your nearness filled the air, an umbilical garden for all the seeds that dropped into the garden. The longing that followed into our infant hearts. You nutured and fostered us as we grounded our roots that could grow nowhere else. You formed us from depths beneath your heart. You know us inside out. No deeds, no seeds, no works or others could ever erase the depths of your goodness and beauty. Thanks Mam and all Mums. Where and what would we be without you all. Save us. Continue to pray, bless and heal.

The Mindful Farmer

Patrick

The Mindful Farmer's Diary - Day 24

Good evening everybody from Ballinwillin House Farm. Today was both a beautiful and hectic day here on the farm. The wild boar burst a pipe and we had to deal with a leak – thank God it wasn’t  raining. After a busy day on the farm I am going to do another Gratitude meditation with you this evening.

Focus on your breathing. In and out slowly. Clear your mind. Just breathe. Put your feet firmly on the ground and be still. In and out. In and out. Think about the important people in your life. Breathe in gratitude for these people. Think of key moments in your life and breathe in gratitude for these too. Go to a place in your mind that is special to you. Think about the happy moments you have had there and breathe in some gratitude for these moments. Breathe in and out. Let these feelings flow from your feet right through your brain and your veins. Be grateful for this relaxing moment.

Now slowly come back from this meditation and be relaxed for the evening. Say your prayers this evening and be kind to everyone in your life.

Don’t forget to always wear that smile and I will talk to you all again tomorrow.

The Mindful Farmer

Patrick

The Mindful Farmer's Diary - Day 23

Good morning all. What a fantastic morning it is here in Ballinwillin today. This morning I am coming to you from the meditation garden at Ballinwillin House. I am doing the Gratitude meditation. This meditation is very positive from a mental health and a wellbeing point of view. We have many positive experiences in our lives. Be still, close your eyes, breathing take in 2 and 3 breaths. Focus on breaths in and out 2 and 3 breaths. So now lets reflect on the following:

The people who are in your life that are important to you, people in your past and in your more recent past and people who you think about right now. Think of one of these people breathe in a sense of gratitude for this person. Think of moments in your life that are special to you. Key moments for which you are grateful.

Focus on one of these

Breathe in gratitude towards this moment. Think of your work achievements great or small and important to you. Think of one that you are very proud of. Think of one you are very grateful for. Breathe in a sense of gratitude for this work.

Places. In your mind that you are happy to go to and breathe gratitude into these places that are special to you. We have many things in our life to be grateful for, our families, our friends, our homes and our work and breathe in a collective sense of gratitude for all these. Continue to breathe in and out nice and slowly.Let all these feelings flow right through from your brain and through your veins and be grateful for today, this hour and this moment. Now nice and easy come back from this gratitude journey and remember to pray, bless and mind each other. Have a great day.

The Mindful Farmer

Patrick

The Mindful Farmer's Daily Diary - Day 22

This morning I would like to tell you about last night’s sky. You may know already that the last thing I do each night is to go outside and look up at the night sky, the stars, the heavens and bless all inside the house and keep them safe and give them a good nights rest embraced with velvet arms.

Last night all I could see was a sick sky, the clouds looked like they were rolled up with infection and looked like poisoned lungs surrounded with a cloak of dark black coal. It occurred to me that it was a sick polluted sky. This affects our air, ground and water. It also affects our animals, fish, fruit and vegetables. We have acid rain, depletion of ozone layer, global warming, and then it sadly struck me what is happening to our beautiful country.

It is we who are responsible,we are destroying nature and it is destroying us in return.  We have to change and until we can protect every little thing in nature and on this earth nature cannot protect us. We must teach firstly our children and then all who will listen that the “Earth is our mother”.

The animals will teach us and the birds in the air are teaching us. Just listen to them now. We must pray for Mother Earth to lift this pandemic and in return we will celebrate and protect her.

Continue to pray, bless and be happy.

 The Mindful Farmer

Patrick

The Mindful Farmer's Daily Diary - Day 21

Good morning everyone and welcome once again to Ballinwillin House Farm.  The weather here this morning is misty but the feel of spring is everywhere and all of nature’s goodness is bursting forth from beneath the soil.

Today being Sunday is always a special day of rest but it is also the first Sunday in April and April, being stress awareness month, we must focus our minds today and raise a thought of prayer for all sectors of society that are being invaded by stress now invaded by coved 19, no family is escaping and stress is not good for your health so it is very important to live outside in the fresh air, take some exercise,  get plenty of clean oxygen to your brain and all bodily cells.  

Earlier this week we prayed for help for the 25,000 people in the nursing homes and help has arrived. Now today I am asking all of you to pray for stress relief for our nation now that this plague has entered our lives. We must be patient and respectful.  We must learn to withdraw into our own tranquility. Lesson from our hearts and lungs, this new plague, free ourselves from its wounds.

We must encourage our responsibilities and not allow ourselves to wilt. We must draw deep into our dignity and character, temper our expectations with the facts before us and pass our time carefully and lovingly. We know that there is a time in everything and in time there will be healing but now is not that time yet.It will come. To celebrate this day, Sunday, I am going to cheer you all up with a tour of the garden to see how all my shrubs, trees and flowers are doing. 

Talk later. I have a few questions for Biffo. Also a compliment for him but alas a complaint also.

Be safe, pray, bless and smile

The Mindful Farmer

Patrick

The Mindful Farmer's Daily Diary - Day 20

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