Colette O'Neill… Author, Publisher, photographer. Creator of Goddess Permaculture.
Yesterday I spent much of the day in a workshop group learning all about needle felting. It was a day well spent, for I was with others and being creative. I made this… We often forget how it feels to simply be. To be oneself. To be with others. To be happy. To be quiet […]
Read MoreThe roses are in bloom on the veranda, resplendent with furniture cast-offs from friends! Standing by the back door, surrounded by such beauty, I have a heavy heart… I have lost my darling Che-Mousy Bear. He has passed. Bealtaine Cottage seems empty without him. Last week was difficult for me, as I struggle to come […]
Read MoreThe woollen blanket dries on the hedge. The hedge being the perfect spot to hang a woolly blanket that would stretch asunder on a clothes line, or shrivel to dolly size in a drier…not that I have a drier or want to have a drier! I agree with Dr Helen Caldicott, in drying clothes in […]
Read More“Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero […]
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This is not a check-list. It is not about ways to recycle or buy greener energy. There is enough advice out there for you to check out. Lists are good for remembering things in a hurry and ensuring everything is done, completed, bought… This is simpler and permanent. It is what I have learned about […]
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