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