I travelled up to see Christine Coulson this morning at the Leitrim Animal Welfare Centre, to make the presentation of the monies you raised for the much needed Animal Protection and re-homing work she does 24/7!
(Mum and son both neutered vaccination and wormed looking to go to new home together sweet cats super friendly)
Some of the animals showing on the FB page were there this morning as I walked around the kennels…oh how I wanted to take them all home with me!
One of the lovely dogs was being prepared for his final home journey to England, where he has been adopted.
(a boy and a girl never separated since birth so would like them to go together to new home)
Despite continued ill-health, Christine works hard to find homes for these unwanted sweethearts all over Europe, with 97% of all the animals getting new families to love and care for them.
Check out the FB site…
https://www.facebook.com/LeitrimAnimalWelfareCentre/
(HI my names is Sean and this is my friend Max, poor Max has been badly treated and he is wary of humans our Dog Warden paired us together, so I can help Max be a happy dog again and we have a bed each but Dog warden keeps finding us cuddled in one, sometimes you just need your own kind to help you be yourself . Woof woof Max)
Sean looks just like my Jack!
A big thank you to the following subscribers…
Anne Faught, Alaska…28.00
Cathy Lawlor, Ireland…20.00
Sharon Hiltz, Fairmont, WV., USA…60.00
Mark Mcvittie, Rostrevor, Newry, Northern Ireland…50.00
Snapdragon Plants, Lampeter, Wales…30.00
Jane Potter, Manchester, UK…15.00
Cormac Breslin, Dublin, Ireland…50.00
Patti, Rossinver, Ireland and USA…25.00
Frances Brotzel, Stoke Newington, London…50.00
(To all past and present animal friends.)
Judith Gamble, Ireland…50.00
(Donation on behalf of our dog, Roxie, who was dumped on our Lane 7 years ago and has been with us ever since!)
Debbie Ledgard, Yorkshire, UK…50.00
Barbara Wingrove, UK…10.00
Anonymous, Ireland…50.00
Catherine McGuckin, Oughterad, Co Galway, Ireland…10.00
Beverley Little, Cornwall, UK…10.00
Linda Jarreau, Denham Springs, LA, USA…25.00
In memory of Karen, my mother who loved dogs so much!
Contributor: Marianne Burkhar…21.00
Margaret Quinn, Meath, Ireland…20.00
Lorna Lees, Moray, Scotland, UK…15.00
Anna Ballard, Bristol, UK…10.00
Willow Antiques, Leigh on Sea, Essex, UK…25.00
Karen Hillier, Herts., UK…20.00
Pamela Waterworth, Wigan, Lancs., UK…10.00
Fiona Fitzpatrick, Buncrana, Donegal, Ireland…20.00
Tina, West Wales…20.00
Jenny in Scotland…20.00
Sharon Hiltz, Fairmont, United States…30.00
Hanson design group dba HotPatterns, USA…20.00
Majella Callaghan, Lurgan, N. Ireland, UK…50.00
Denise Machon, Lampeter, Ceredigion, Wales, UK…30.00
Miss Susan K Wilson, UK…50.00
Cormac O’Neill, London, UK…50.00
Colette O’Neill, Bealtaine Cottage, Ireland…100.00…from Jack to Christine XXX who was there when I needed a friend!
Channelling is a skill that takes practice, eventually becoming an intuitive director of energy, good or bad. 
Yesterday, angry energy was channelled into this creation. 
As we channel energy from one place to another, so we work as alchemists in this world.
Alchemy is a subject I have talked about in previously at Bealtaine Cottage…this little piece of Sacred Earth being itself changed in the most alchemical way by the Goddess of eternal change, Gaia. 
…and I have cut part of a leaf to help heal Sammy-Bear’s right eye that has become rather sore following a fight with another cat…not Beauty! 
Recent conversations and experiences have led me to expect the unexpected in life at present! 
This morning, as I drove back from Mohill, another “experience,” happened. 
It was good that I had already pulled in by the side of the road!
“The Naming of Cats is a difficult matter,
First of all, there’s the name that the family use daily,
There are fancier names if you think they sound sweeter,
But I tell you, a cat needs a name that’s particular,
Of names of this kind, I can give you a quorum,
But above and beyond there’s still one name left over,
When you notice a cat in profound meditation,
His ineffable effable
Effanineffable
Deep and inscrutable singular Name.” 
As the thousand and more trees and thousands of plants of the Bealtaine Project grow taller and more dense, so it is the once barren land seems more and more as it is…an Ark for Earth, set into a monoculture landscape of Cash-Crop-Forestry and animal grazing fields. 
This summer witnessed the most Bees, Butterflies, Pollinators and Birds ever! 
The wildlife in search of home are migrating to the oasis of Bealtaine Cottage. 
They know where the food, shelter and ultimate habitat is to be found! 
So, I thought to myself, what if those with gardens, allotments, smallholdings etc., pledged to devote a percentage of what they tend or own to wildlife?
We are talking Arks, where wildlife can not only survive, but thrive! 
This takes the presumption that one cannot make a difference and turns it on it’s ridiculous head! 
For one can make a difference! 
Two can double that little Ark for Earth…hundreds can create a huge difference and thousands…well, thousands can begin to stack the odds in favour of Mother Earth! 
Now don’t get me thinking of hundreds of thousands or even millions, for my head will almost explode with possibilities…but you see where this is going, don’t you? 
And as for Guerrilla Gardening…oh joy!
What about seed bombs chucked out of the car window onto the motorway verges? 
We are creative people who care…if you’ve landed here on this website you most certainly are! 
So let’s get to it! 
Oh, and the Lughnasadh Garden is being worked on little by little, with a grand opening and dedication ceremony next Bealtaine (May 1st)
…the Ark is being extended…
…One Garden At A Time
and…it’s going to be mighty!
I know I should not have gone out today! 
I know in retrospect, on reflection, it was a mistake… 
I had already heard something on the morning news, a tail-end of some report…something about an animal being killed, and I thought, Oh gosh, here we go again! 
Anyway, what happened was I decided to go into town, taking one of my grandsons into Sligo. 
Later on, I was waiting around for him to meet me at the car, when I decided to go into the Newsagent and see if I could get hold of one of the broadsheets for a good read! 
What a mistake…the papers were mostly head-lined with the news of the killing and other dreadful stuff. 
I could hardly avoid the image…on one particular paper there was this image on the front cover of this beautiful Bear…this beautiful, beautiful Bear, dying, impaled on a spear. 
The horror that was man, hovering over the magnificent creature, like some dreadful Nosferatu…gloating, menacing, triumphant! 
As I write this, the Bear is dead. 
The beautiful soul of that incredibly extraordinary creature has passed into the heart of the Great Mother, the Universal Consciousness…Mother Earth. 
The man…that dreadfully twisted, sickening human being who destroyed that incredible life, lives on… 
And as I look around my gardens and walk among the trees, with Jack, I’m reminded of the importance of love in this world. 
The longer I am here at Bealtaine…and this is the longest I have ever lived in one place…
A species that has the right and the left brain thinking… though invariably we invoke the left brain… 
…but we have the right brain, we have the capacity for compassion and love… 
And at this point in time, Mother Earth needs us to bring into conscientiousness our right brains! 
For we need to express love and understanding and compassion and beauty and creation… and all those deep qualities that link us to the Divine. 
That’s all I have to say…that’s my prayer, my daily prayer! 
Christopher Hitchens was right… “In the end there is only love…” 
This is what I show and remind my grandchildren. 
My love is there for Mother Earth and all her sentient beings…
