The Mindful Farmers Daily Diary Day 75

Good morning everyone and welcome once again to Ballinwillin House Farm and gardens on this beautiful May morning. Yesterday was a beautiful day with sunshine all day as the team at Ballinwillin House and I were delivering all over the country to Neighbour Food outlets and the great and lovely people hosting the various venues again a sincere thank you! This morning I would like to talk to you about “two worlds”. World no. 1 old world prior. Prior to Covid19. Busy from dawn to dusk. No time to focus on life, family, friends and who we are meant to be or where we came from. World no. 2 lock down Covid19. Now many of our ways are in ruins. Our work, our social life, our family structures are all in ruins. Society has almost broken down. Families in particular are totally disjointed. Families torn apart by loss, bereavement and separation. What if from this day forward we  reshape, we rebuild our communities, we go back to the old ways, ancient, traditional. Consumerisim has failed us and left us empty and cold and very ill in some cases and in the most devastating way with loss of life. I believe, and again it is a personal belief, that technology, although it pretends to unite us, but where are the global villages now? Who delivers food to your door? The global village has no roads or neighbours. It is a faceless, impersonal landscape from where all individuality has been erased. If we are to learn anything from this pandemic we must be mindful to the fact that when all outer cultural shelters are in ruins we need to explore and reawaken the depths of belonging in the human mind and soul that will lead us once again to beautiful possibilities of community and friendship. We must return to who we are really meant to be as a race of beautiful island people and who we are meant to be with as communities.

Continue to pray, bless and heal each other.

The Mindful Farmer

Patrick