This is What Economic Failure Looks Like
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I have a small house with 5 acres of farm land in France, I am surrounded by cow and sheep farms who think I am crazy! My 11 sheep are all orphans who were advertised as freezer lambs, they have about 1.5 acres and the rest I am planting varieties of trees into. I continually use your footage for guidance and inspiration.
You are the wealthiest woman I know of by far. I believe the body of work you are creating will long live on as an example.
I was shocked... when I heard all this, I guess I wasn’t putting two and two together. I loved the way tu brought your thoughts from the beautiful colors of nature into art and into business and people’s values. I love your property and you’re doing a tremendous work. I’m sorry the world can’t see it that way. But you are doing your part in healing the planet, that’s what really matters and some of us are thankful.
You are a genius among amateurs Colette. Your relationship with Mother Earth and her children is rare in humanity. If it were 1000 years ago, you'd be a priestess for the Celts. I would only want to learn from you! I'm so happy Sammy is ok so far. It can be emotionally draining when our fur friends fall ill. We want to do so much for them. Jack is sprite in his jumps across the water. Little acrobat. Two of the elements -- fire (sun) and water -- were so wonderful to experience at Bealtaine. Both were soothing, comforting and healing. Looking back on some of the videos I recorded while there, I found over 15 faeries that I didn't see initially. I was delighted! Many blessings to you, Sammy and Jack from me and mine. =)
So beautiful, Collette, the sound of the water, the color, the trees and your sweet, calming voice. Much healing love to SammyBear, w. Extra for Jack's share and gratitude for you. It is just what I needed this morning.😍❣💜🍁🍂🌻🎃🌼💜
Beautiful images.... a sweetness and peacefulness are present on your morning walk. Thank you for taking us along.
A most remarkable discourse from you this morning, I concur with your thoughts on the devaluing of the arts and humanities as a stepping away from natural law and overvaluing of profit making. Thank you for showing me everyday that there is a viable alternate way, by your Bealtaine project. Love time spent in your virtual presence.
Agree wholeheartedly. There is an agenda to teach a set of rules where open thinking is discouraged. What is annoying is that subjects like sciences of all sorts need people to invent and discover rather than follow certain doctrines or dogmas.
@@moiraw9574 creative thinking and innovation is the essence of scientific breakthroughs and cannot be encouraged by dogma , certainly.
You are my big sister in Ireland...I am just turned 60 but can not walk well now (born with a dislocated right hip). Walking with you through Bealtaine is a rare treat...My garden is very wild but somewhat neglected. My son will help me nurture it. My degree BA Home Economics, and ten years Horticulturist x
I feel that also . I do not feel valued , having a art degree, even now being 60 years old. Our culture is shameful. I find it very difficult to live the life I want to live.
Long live Bealtina Cottage.🌲🌸🍁
Toward the end, when you describe whether your neighbors would be inspired by Bealtaine or not, my thought was "Bealtaine vs neighbors is the difference between life and death." You and Mother Earth are growing life and for life, your neighbors are barely sustaining life for death. Mother Earth will always win in the end. You and Sammy have been in my thoughts for days. If wishing someone well works...lots of wishes are coming your way.
I love to come back and watch your videos time and time again I find them so soothing and beautiful. You truly are living the dream.
The colours in this video are so stunning 🧡
Hello a lovely walk with you as always. Thank you. Love to you all from Devon .
This site is delightful. I just found it today and am thoroughly enjoying it. Thank you Collette.
You and your land are extremely valuable. You are having an effect on other people all around the world. You shake up your box of frogs and get on with it. That is more than most do. C
We have had a whole load of rain this week in Cornwall knocking leaves off the trees.
Love to you all at the cottage.
The UK government are beginning to set aside money to pay landowners to plant woodland for wildlife. Hopefully the first step in the right direction.
Until the UK government resolves back to the nation's that formed it I wouldn't hold my breath for change.
Thanks for the tour. I finally got a handle on the real time layout of Bealtaine. Leave it to water to show the way. Sending good energy to you and Sammy Bear.
The reflection of the willow on your pond reminds me of Monet's pond in Giverney. France .😊❤
I once had a beautiful deaf white cat. And I cried for days when he died. Give Sammybear a gentle hug from me if you can💕🙏🇦🇺
Colette you are so right. My art degrees are of no importance to anyone, but me. C
Your thoughts today remind me of an old Dr. Who quote by Jon Pertwee - "The shortest distance between two points may very well be a straight line, but it is by far the least interesting."
Sometimes it's a good thing to be 'under the radar', so to speak. May the destroyers continue to not see you and the work you do. :) Thanks for the Sammy Report. :)
"...sunlight on moss..." sounds like a good start to a poem
Aaaah so well said all of this. Thank you for this lovely morning wander. Health and love to you and Sammy Bear and Jack. 😊
It is a blessing to not be a desired commodity by this current economic model. Or...they would take it away from you like that have done in so many cases...whether it be to use your land to store waste from fracking or to build a nuclear power plant or grow GMO crops...such a blessing to be undesirable to the powers that are trying to kill everything alive on this dear planet. Sorry for the rant but the suffering caused by the current mode of thinking is heartbreaking. Bealtaine Cottage is a sacred refuge. Bless you. I am keeping Sammy in my thoughts. Each time I kiss one of my kitties on the brow, I imagine kissing Sammykins with love and healing.
Thank you so much for this tour on the many paths, I crave those. I enjoyed it and the commentary and agree completely.
Great video.
I agree totally - the world has gone crazy and people's sense of value is upside down. I have no money but feel rich beyond measure when loads of birds and other wildlife visit my small wild garden, and the frogs come to my frog garden, or like this summer when bumble bees chose to nest in it. That's when I know I'm doing something right for mother earth and it has much more value to me than any financial gain. As long as I can feed and clothe myself and give my dogs what they need, I am content. By the world's standards I'm a bit of a failure, but I'm a happy one!
As always magnificent, magical frames. And very sensible words which the 'world' thinks of as idiocy of notion but is the ultimate truth about where 'we' come from/ belong to and is lost in the current economy. But there are changes happening all over the world, small as they might be, that keep up the hope!
💙💚💙💚 to Sammy Bear and you all caring for him.
Thank you for this post, Colette. This video is provoking so many questions for me today. Our state is on fire throughout the summer, once again, because of the lack of rain on our woodlands. Climate change has tipped the point where carbon use and forest growth are no longer compatible here in California. I know that Mother Earth has a scheme and will survive, but it seems to me this will take many generations. Will humans need to form communities away from woodlands while this unfolds and our dry waterless forests once again provide moisture enough for rain? Who decides how to manage the forested areas in our corporate society, where we are encouraged to clear away the brush and not plant too close to our homes. I am not looking for direct answers but just stating our dilemma. Meanwhile I'll continue to plant...as if our lives depend on it and keep the tinder under control.
Irene, are you in California? I am in Sacramento and the smoke is very thick. It's really difficult to breathe. My little plot is heavily planted, I've been here for 13 years and I can tell you that it absolutely makes a difference. I've thought many battles with my neighbors regarding planting in a wild way even in front of the house and not cutting down trees but planting more of them instead. It took many years but a lot of the neighbors are now asking me questions on how I did it and they are doing it too. Just yesterday I prevented a massive spraying of roundup on a construction site just across from me. Just one person can make a difference.
Yes, I live in Alameda and many people are wearing masks because of the thick smoke. Your yard and efforts to prevent spraying sets a great example for your neighbors. Now they are changing, too. My fairly small backyard is chock full of plantings and pathways, leaves from last year, topped with compost and a fairly large pond made from a clawfoot bathtub. . It has been a joy watching the circle of life right here. We now have many hawks and even horned owls in our neighborhood.. This past year since finding Bealtaine Cottage has made me feel like we are doing something really important.
Oh, the clawfoot tub is a great idea! I hope the rains come, we so badly need them...
I'd love to see sometime you starting off making your morning tea ( love to know how others make tea around the world), then take us on your morning stroll as you do with your beautiful teaching ( in my opinion it's teaching) which I love so much. Always a pleasure watching you 💕
I enjoyed the path by the water, with the stream chuckling and cooing along with us. And I agree with your very wise commentary. I agree with some of the comments, though, that what you are doing will last long after we are gone! You are a remarkable person. I know mother earth is happy and proud to have you on her side! Thank you again for sharing. Blessings to you, Jack and Sammybear. Prayers are still going up for Sammy.
Oh my goodness. That woodland is gorgeous.
Wow! Your pond just keeps getting better and better! SO beautiful! And how lucky are YOU to have a spring well! I was looking for land here in the US and discovered that, even if you buy the land, you may not necessarily own the water rights to any water you discover on that land!! Say WHAT? I thought that was very strange.....
Well wishes for sweet Sammy-Bear! Hope he's back to running around real soon!!❤😊
Beautiful morning light and the sound of the water is delightful and soothing
Also there is power in knowing real value.
Every word you say is true. My hope is that sanity will break through. With the pandemic, I'm seeing people who've been forced to stop the crazy racing. Some respond with rage and fear. Others have started evaluating their lives and started thinking, food gardening, cooking, and picking up handcrafts. Maybe the change won't be permanent for all but even if it's just a few, those who do stay on a different path are adding weight to our side of the scale.
A thought occurred to me while listening to you, and the birds in the background, do you have bird sanctuaries that are tax deductible in Ireland?
I encourage frogs and toads in my small garden with a plastic seed tray with no holes which fills rain water and some upturned terracotta plant saucers leant slightly up so the frogs can creep under to escape from the heat and predators.
Your reflection upon the weird and narrow focus of humanity on perceived value of the land struck a further chord for me, on the parallel valuation of the home and family. Mother Earth provides 'home' and 'support' and 'welfare' for the workers on the earth - the trees, insects, microbes, etc. This is not valued and neither are those workers. All that is valued is the produce that humanity decides it wants produced, solely for its own benefit. Our homes and families and what they provide for the human work force is not valued. All that is valued is the produce that the business model decides is to be produced, for the generation of money, by the human workforce. Humanity, the patriarchal system, only values produce and the obvious, front line production worker - not the more vital matriarchal system which supports, cares for, backs up and in essence creates the production line workers in both worlds. Nuts isn't it?
Well said!
This is all true and I am in utter agreement as far as what SHOULD be; however I don’t necessarily find it shocking as the fact that You need to pay taxes on something which is undervalued is the exact reason others (and the majority) strive toward the things which are valued to bring value to theirselves. One goes where the water is for oneself. It is a differential of values. Your Land is of value only to those who value environmental wellbeing not economical wellbeing. Hence sadly it is a comparison of apples to oranges. It also isn’t a new progression...this is something that has been progressing for eons. It is merely only coming more to light as the balance is beginning to tip toward the economic side and in order to succeed in that atmosphere it needs to destroy the environmental atmosphere to grow. Unfortunately what the economic side doesn’t realize is that without the environmental side...there will be nothing. The success to all is only in bringing value to the environment .... but as with most tug of wars, it is the Leaders who cannot foresee. Most are only in it for the “Water” and don’t realize the air, earth and fire are equally important. 😔
It may give you some comfort in knowing that I own, and live on, a redwood property. In fact it's probably as close as one can get, in the US, to living in Ireland as any place in the country. But what I would like to share is that I too have taken a piece of this planet, and removed it from the economic system. I simply will not cut (I hate the term "harvest") the trees. I was furious when the husband of the realtor told me to log it off and subdivide it. I live very much like you, and even think very similarly. I suppose that's why I appreciate your channel. So rest assured that there is at least one place that is transformed into a rational place of beauty.
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Thank you for this soothing video.Even though the video was made in 2018 it was very refreshing to watch it and the sound of running water so very healing. It was so very nice to wake up my senses with this video. In a moment so hard right now in my life your video is a treat to my soul. Walk softly and in peace, Luna
why did capability brown do what he did ? he didn't even live to see his finished work. but i can bet that every gardener could tell you what he did. where is his like today ?
at the start you showed the stream going up to the road, on my Bealtaine map it is written that the stream goes towards River Feorish. I was wondering, does it naturally go back underground or was there a canal built underneath the road for it to continue on its way?
Through big pipes under my driveway, ditch, then more big pipes under the road, stream, then Feorish
@@bealtainecottage Thank You!
Dear Colette - as your money is being earned through the arts, I would hope that the Revenue Commissioners are not charging you income tax.
Thinking of you and Sammy Bear and hoping he makes a good recovery. I have had a lot of success with homeopathy for cats. Usually a remedy works through a profound sleep, so I hope that is what is happening with Sammy.
we need de-growth
I second the notion of de-growth! :)
I'm always saying tear down malls and plant parks. Lots of trees.
Cee Austin let’s un-pave paradise, and take down the parking lot! (just like in that song) :)
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I am a new sub and am addicted. So what happens to your cottage and the land after you pass? The government won’t come in and take over will they? You will leave to your daughter, perhaps?
I draw up a will which is respected in law.
I hope to see your face.