Home used to be a place where everything that was needed to live well was grown or made on site by family and neighbours.
Michael Kennedy Mug and Westport Potteries bowl on locally made chopping board
A place in which food was prepared several times each day and shared by all present.
Many basic necessities were stitched or nailed together by those who used them.
Perlagoniums and cats on the window sill
Home used to be a vibrant, thriving project in self-sufficiency, with what was needed to be bought in, purchased on a rare trip to town, or ordered several times each year, to be delivered and stored.
Missy relaxing on a hot water bottle to ease her tumour…it works well!
Home included a pantry or larder, a cold-store and a well used and scrubbed kitchen table where food was prepared and eaten.
Valerian growing in the gravel around the cottage
Today, as part of the massive disconnect from our lovely Earth, we have fitted kitchens which are made from chemicals and constantly cleaned with chemicals.
Orange waste infusing the air with beautiful aroma on top of the stove
The emphasis is on keeping a show-house type of environment, where these expensive kitchens are not used to their full potential.
A great cure-all…hot water bottle for Missy Cat
Our lives are chemically infused…with clothes, bedding and bodies immersed in chemical solutions on a daily basis.
Washed in soap, rinsed in rain water and blowing in the wind
Washing machines pound the clothes we buy with chemicals that are washed out into our rivers and oceans, killing life on the way.
The Bealtaine Cottage angel ponders it all…
We wonder how cancer, autism, asthma, allergies and depression are so rife within our communities?
We seek doctors and drugs to help us live and be well, without paying too much attention to our living state and what the corporations are doing to our environments.
Recycled floor
Pharmaceutical companies are the most powerful corporate bodies on our planet. In the US alone in 2011, the pharmaceutical industry spent nearly $29 billion on drug promotion with most of that money targeted at doctors!
Herbs drying naturally
We are taught not to question, but to accept the status quo of a controlled demolition of society…
A government sponsored controlled demolition of our society!
We are viewed by corporation and government alike, as mere consumers. Passive receivers and worker drones.
Awakening and refusing to comply!
The realization of this state of affairs is the beginning of our personal journey to freedom and a good life.
Wonderful July 2017 Update!
Our Irish Government has passed the bill to ban Fracking in Ireland!
This was signed into law by President Higgins in July 2017!
If you would like to support the work of Bealtaine Cottage, completely dependent on people who value what I do, here’s how…
Many of us are seeing the potential in this continuous change and regard it as an awakening to The Age of Ecology.
The Age of Corporatism continues in its most ugly form, sucking in souls to its relentless mantra of buy/consume, buy/consume…
Economic growth in a finite world?
What was has almost destroyed our world, as more and more of humanity come to realise.
As many move away from the corporate model we once embraced, the world appears different to our eyes…we are living, alive, sensory deprived human beings.
How much does one person need in order to feel happy?
We used to inherit items we treasured thereafter…
Economic growth?
MORE pollution, consumerism, ill-health, war, alienation, depression…
We need a new model for life, something better to aspire to…
To live a better life, with fewer products.
To leave some of the raw materials in the Earth.
To stop taking and grabbing and wanting…
To consider the people yet to live.
Realising our present path is leading our precious Earth to TOTAL Ecological Collapse.
There has never been this amount of consumer goods on our planet.
There has never been this amount of sickness, despair, depression and anxiety.
Conscious living.
Being fully aware of what we do, buy, eat, share, give and…think.
We are in transit from the Age of Pisces.
This began with the birth of Christianity and is represented by the fish.
Much of what has been experienced over the past two thousand years, has been shadowed and darkened by patriarchy, in its most virulent form.
This is a time to leave behind what we now see as futile!
So there I was, having a good old wallow in being down, when something caught my eye, causing me to look up.
It was a simple cameo…a blackbird that peered inquisitively back at me through the kitchen window.
The beautiful bird brought me a message from Nature, saying, quite simply, “look!”
And so I did.
I looked out the window.
I stepped outside and looked.
There was an entire world around me that was saying, “Step in here and lift your heart up!”
Since this morning I have looked and been lifted.
Now, here I am, sat by the keyboard, writing this blog and inviting you to share some uplifting pictures of what I have seen this year…
Thanks to the Divine energy all around us that creates such beauty…Thanks!
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