A Story of Hope
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- Опубликовано: 30 сен 2024
- Never let go of your dream! Colette O'Neill is a published author and passionate environmentalist, Druidess(Bandruí) and Woodlander, promoting Celtic indigenous wisdom and culture in all of her work.
Books:
A Cottage and Three Acres
Walking Between Worlds
In Search of the Goddess Rising
Bealtaine Cottage Guide to the Deep Midwinter
Celtic Festival of Imbolc
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Not only can we not live without trees, I can't imagine why we would want to. ❤🌳🌳
Such a stunning difference that one woman has made! I look forward to each and every video, Colette, and your walkabouts are my favorite!
Your story gives me hope for my future. My female priest from Norwegian church in London, SE16. She said it was a higher power that will decide when my time comes. I have 8 grandchildren, another grandchild; a boy, due 01/02/2025. When I pass away this grandchild will have no grandmothers! I admire you so deeply. You are so kind & thoughtful. Thanks for planting your beautiful woodland…
@@yvonneyven8683 My grandmothers have both passed, yet they are still tangibly here with me. Genuinely just today I said hello to both my grandmothers and my one grandfather who passed when I was a toddler but for whom I have a very strong spiritual connection to, just as I do with both my grandmothers whom I knew as an adult. When I see them I see them as energy balls floating out there, usually outside like stars pulled down from the sky. They are still here and still with me. ✨ ⭐️❤️. Oh my gosh! As if on cue as I was typing "star" for that emoji to pop up, honestly the autocorrect put in "Sagar" which was that grandfather's birth last name!!! I'm not making that up!! ! I literally have the chills, happy, wonderful chills! They are absolutely here!!! Wow, this has been a remarkably uplifting and magical day for me - for that (thank you for prompting this message, I just wiped away a tear on my cheek) as well as another realization earlier while in the garden (see my comment on the beautiful Navaho blessing). ❤️❤️🙏🙏
You can still talk to your family after you drop your robe. Work with your friend to strengthen the skills needed. Best Wishes 🙏.
Have you ever heard the American folklore story of Johnny Appleseed (real name: John Chapman)? Johnny was instrumental in sowing apple seeds throughout the American Midwest in the 19th century. I believe some of his trees are still alive and producing apples to this day! Here’s my point, you are a 21st century Irish Johnny Appleseed! I hope your country realizes what a great and generous woman you are! 🌳☘️
Your story has inspired my own, I’ve had my little cottage nearly a year now, and I am rewilding and protecting my little patch of nature ❤
I crave the videos you share. I look forward to each one, and always learn something new from your work at the cottage and three acres. I love watching the changing seasons, the smoke from your chimney, the creation of your secret garden. I love hearing the birds that fill your space, all the way to my space, here in western Washington. It gives me such a yearning. I can’t thank you enough for what you do. ❤
Maybe I should just create a version of this here in western Washington.
You are a gift to Ireland, her National treasure Colette. Mother Earth recognized your gifts and supported you all the way. ❤❤❤
I still become emotional when you do your walks thru the trees. I must have lived there in another time; hopefully l can come back someday
Blessings to you Colette for snatching back a beautiful piece of Mother Earth 🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿
laissant une trace’d’empreintes de coeur 🌳🍃🌱💚🌳🍃🌱💚🌳🍃🌱💚 merci 💋
Beautiful story, beautiful video. You have inspired me for years now on my own property and Mother Earth has noticed and is helping me. All over the perimeter of my property (I hate calling it "my property" as I am just a caretaker, but there it is), Hawthornes, Hollys and Oaks have popped up and I let them be, and in fact nurture them. Since there are so many and all mostly on the perimeter I feel like Mother Earth is protecting this space both spiritually and physically from the intrusions of my urban/suburban location (a half acre within a larger city limits.) While my woodland still young in comparison (just 5-6 years), as it was inspired by Bealtaine Cottage so is it a sort of "child of Bealtaine" on the other side of the globe. What an honor! ❤️🙏🌲🌾
"and the Earth absolutely welcomed them." No truer words. Thank you so much.
I have an ancient wood near me I walk it twice a day with my dogs. I usually have carrier bags in my pocket to pick up the litter that gets dumped as the wood is next to a built up area. We also most summers see some trees some of which are over a hundred years being set fire, amazingly most survive, others as they have been weakened come down in the winter storms. It breaks my heart but some how the wood keeps growing year after year she is absolutely beautiful and I apologise to her for what the minority do and thank her for the joy she brings to me and the home she provides for the deer, foxes and other wildlife. You are an inspirational woman Colette although I only have a small garden I have planted smaller trees because of your example 🌳 thank you for for all you do
I only have custody of 1/4 acre…. But I’m doing what I can with what I have 💚 your wildlands are ever an inspiration. Thank you 🙏💚
Me too, I have 26 trees so far & plan on planting another 7. It's amazing what you can fit into a smaller space with a bit of thought! 😊
...actually make that 39 so far, I forgot about the row of closely planted native trees clipped into a hedge! There is an abundance of native birds & even a little ringtail possum has built a drey (nest) in one of the trees. Talk about an urban oasis for wildlife! ☺️
@@ren8240 wow that’s fantastic! I had to count mine after reading your comment! We’ve planted 31 so far in the backyard, and 20 in the front yard that already had several large trees including a beautiful huge bottlebrush. Sounds like you are a fellow Aussie? I’ve planted a mix of native and fruit trees 💚
Definitely an oasis for wildlife (and us) ☺️
What you have done is just stunning, can you imagine if the world got behind you and followed your path to treating the earth with the respect she deserves. My God what a paradise it could be. Thank you for taking the time to produce these videos and touch people’s hearts to inspire them to produce a better future for our Mother Earth, it’s a selfless act and I for one are eternally grateful.
Cuddles for Patsy as well as yourself. I will aquire a Jack Russell puppy or dog some time next year, if I live that long! 😢
Your forest is stunning. Thank you for sharing it with the world. You inspire all of us to help Mother Earth to survive. I watched a very sad video yesterday on the destruction of the rain forests in South America due to strip mining for gold. It's sad and pathetic that corporations are allowed to deface the planet in the name of greed.
Thank you for the walk around your beautiful sanctuary ❤
Beautiful so happy you still show and share with us..i love the sounds it makes when you walk in the woods...magical!!! Lov lov love it!!😊❤
You paved the way to bring nature back from poor land. You're helping the land to heal. It really doesn't take nature long to take over if given the chance. People searching for fossils bring the proof to us that what was here millennia ago still remains.
I am so happy that you still share your story, life. With the help of my kind granddaughter, I have 2 of your books. But I soo love hearing your voice/stories of present & the past
Blessings from Selhurst, London SE25, England
I love your Bealtaine Cottage/Woodland. 🥰🦮
Enchanting! I love my trees too.
There are no words to say Colette, other than so very very beautiful.
Colette, I love your walks through the Woodland, and love your stories ❤️ Thank you
Your story is one of hope and positivity. I love what you have done on your property. It is absolutely breathtaking! Blessings.
Your videos keep me dreaming and hoping. Nothing like a cottage in the woods…Having a difficult time and being in Nature soothes my soul…thanks for posting! ❤🌲🪴🍁🙏🐕
Your “Little Piece of Heaven” is an inspiration to thousands of people…What is most impressive to me is your work practice …Your woodland is well loved, and it shows.
Ahh!! A kindred soul I feel in you, Collette!! I feel the trees are my family! I feel a true connection to our dear gentle giants. They love and care about all! They know, no malice or scorn. They exist to love and to keep record, just like the whales do in the sea. They are the record keepers and the holders of energy. 🍁🍂✨️🌳🌲🐳 Blessings Always 💚 🙏💙
Love what you say. Beautiful Person.
Love that!
Yes, a wonder to behold & with respect, to honor & to share. To teach our children, to pass on down the seasons & the turnings.
I’m so proud of you and your land. You have done a great deed and continue to create beauty in a peaceful place. Blessings to you and to the world. I too have created a habitat for our friends of the forest. I live in suburbs but fenced in my 3/4 acres and then fenced half of that and have let it be wild and free. I throw seeds around and they grow such beauty. 16 oak trees and some other trees grow here. Hard to believe in suburbs. But I keep the front yard very groomed. For my city. But on my back deck is a true gem. To see. Love you and thank you.
Wow Colette, your beautiful and thought-provoking video, made me cry ...happy tears at the stunning woodland you have created and given back to mother earth. And sad tears for all the woodlands and green spaces that are being so cruelly ripped down everywhere! I just wish I could do something like that Colette, you are such an inspiration and I absolutely love your home, garden, woodland and videos 💚
A Navajo Blessing
In beauty I walk
With beauty before me I walk
With beauty behind me I walk
With beauty above me I walk
With beauty around me I walk
It has become beauty again
Hózhóogo naasháa dooShitsijí’ hózhóogo naasháa dooShikéédéé hózhóogo naasháa dooShideigi hózhóogo naasháa dooT’áá altso shinaagóó hózhóogo naasháa dooHózhó náhásdlíí’Hózhó náhásdlíí’Hózhó náhásdlíí’Hózhó náhásdlíí’
That is so beautiful, thank you 🥰😍
That is so beautiful, thank you.
What a beautiful blessing. I have not heard it before yet just a short couple hours ago I was out watering as later today we will have a rare 90 degree Sept day and I experienced that blessing. All the plants were so beautiful in the autumn light - in front of me, behind me, below me and above me. The bees were out getting their last pollen. The grasshoppers were out foraging in the warmth. The caterpillars were out eating and preparing to pupate over the winter. The moon was out in the daytime sunny sky and I thought/felt very keenly that the Earth and the moon and the planet and nature are eternal and while our human times/issues seem so dark right now, to Mother Earth they are but a blip, a blot....petty and silly in the great scheme of things, and long after we are each gone she and her creations will endure. She had me tangibly realize that blessing and lo and behold, you provided the words. Thank you. It has been a much needed pick-me-up, as has Colette's video today.
@@mikeinportland30 Colette embodies this blessing.
The Duolingo app has Navajo as an option. I’ve been studying over a year. 👍
How I love the stone circle Collette ❤ aaah I remember so well how much Jack loved it so up there and the fairy woods, how he would gaze into the woods xx he was a dear sweet boy blessings to you my dear friend
Aww, I miss Jack! 🥰😔🥰
What a beautiful message for anyone in grief to think of the energy of their life ones within the memory of the land and biosphere. ❤ This is exactly why I love and appreciate you so much Colette x
I am currently reading a book called 'The secret life of trees' & yes Colette they do communicate with each other in many ways, it is fascinating.
@@gill8779 A truly wonderful book!!
I love that book 🌲I live beneath redwood trees.
This is a heaven to me
Was just thinking about you this morning…✨🌳🧚🏼♂️✨
Hi Colette, Your little cottage in the woods is so homely and beautiful! A complete sanctuary of peace and serenity. Blessings to you and dear little Patsy ❤❤
Thank you you are grounded in love light you great sweetsoul a big hug for you❤❤❤❤
Absolutely stunning 😍 I love your little part of Ireland 🇮🇪 ❤️ ♥️
Hugs from Leicester England xx
Really enjoyed this video . Thank you for sharing your walk
Thank you for this soothing and peaceful walk, Colette. ❤
Absolutely wonderful what you have done. Your woodland looks like it has been there for hundreds of years! You certainly have a way with plants and trees 🌲.
Always enjoy walks with you 🍁🍂🌲🦋
So lovely to walk with you Colete throughout your gorgeous woodland seen the beautiful red squirrel that visits the woodland what a joy for you & us❤Kerry Australia
Yes, plant trees to save the world! Lovely walk, Colette - you should feel proud of your achievement! I adore stone circles.
You should be so very proud of the beautiful legacy you created on your special plot on our beautiful Mothef Earth.
Colette, it would be nice to see your land from the sky sometime. Beautiful job. Love your forest.
There is drone footage on several of my videos. For this video, I simply wanted to show you what it is like to walk among the beautiful trees.
Thank God you had family support. Good job.
Beautiful! ❤ Thanks for sharing the results of all your hard work restoring the woodland.
Beautiful!
I love trees !
Collette you are a inspiration ❤❤
Awwwww.. 😢Brilliant ❤️🙏❤️
Hello Colette, Thank you so much for another wonderful video and walk. Blessings to you and your sweet Patsy. ❤
Many years ago I traveled to Vancouver Canada. We took a tram up a mountain where there was a wild animal sanctuary and they took you on a nature walk. I had never been in such a lush nature environment and haven't since. We came to this huge tree that fell and was starting to decay. Someone asked why it wasn't cut up and sold or given for firewood, it was that big. The guide told us that all trees if possible should be left because they become "nurse" trees. It becomes a habitat for small animals, insects, fungi, and eventually nourishes the soil going back to where it came from and if any seed from the tree was in the new soil, it would grow a new tree to take it's place. I never forgot that. I was about 32 at the time and I am now 60, and that one thought changed how I looked at my garden and the forests around me. Hard to explain how alive it all now looked. I new plants were alive, but it became a different lens before my eyes.
I love finding the places with trees growing in a long straight line and the nurse tree is almost completely gone.
Beautiful, Thank you 👍🙏❤️
The woodland you have fostered and grown is truly amazing Colette. Really I’m in awe. As you were walking and talking about the earth welcoming your efforts I thought that the trees helped and welcomed each other also. Seeing is believing. Blessings.🐇
dear Colette..........you create such a peceful woodland .................a prayer to mother earth........you are my role model..........I only have 60 qm.......but I do my best.................Blessings and Greetings and a big hug for Patsy,Daggy,Kiel,Germany☘☘☘
Thank you for a beautiful walk around your lovely garden, 😊.
This is magical! Only if everyone would do this 🥺
Thank you ❤. I love to visit the stone circle oak. So lovely to visit with you.
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beautiful words, restoring the history of the past, its like shifting in to another dimension capturing its magic. Thank you.
I love your woodland walks Colette, Such a beautiful place 💜 🍂🍁🍂 💜
In awe of the amount of work you have done here. Makes me think of the saying that the best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago. Well done! ❤
There is footage of the infamous Billy g a t es saying " I hate trees and want them all gone" That is when I knew for certain he is truly truly evil to his core and evil incarnate.
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Beautiful video Colette, thoroughly enjoyed it. You've created absolute paradise. Thank you x
It is so encouraging to see that all this grew in only 20 years. 20 years sound so long, but it is only one generation. I live in a place where trees are there, but sparse. I grew up surround be the woods and that is where I want to return to someday. Our plot of land is not huge enough to make a forest happen, but I'm planting trees and shrubs anyway. Thank you for showing how it can be done :) it is so hard to imagine how flat meadow can become a forest in a fraction of a human lifetime.
Blessings!🍂🌳
The cottage and her land and the trees are so very beautiful - you are creating an ongoing work of art!
Wow. Just wow. Ever protect it.
Thoroughly enjoyed your video Colette ❤
Amazing🎉❤ 🌳🌲Thank you very much.
Thank you so much, Jasmine, this is very generous of you.
Perhaps your most beautiful video... So peaceful...
You are a inspiration for me! I'm in the process of buying a cottage on 5 acres. The closing has been delayed because Sunnova (who received 3 billion loan from USA) will not release the lien (when I called they said it was paid off). Yet they have not released the lien. I'm worried they are not a the level since they charged the previous owner (who lost his house) 50k and the going rate for solar is 11k? What is that price gauge percentage?
I live in a place that naturally doesn’t have many trees. My granny immigrated from Ireland many years ago. Granny used to say she liked living someplace without a lot of trees because it reminded her of home. It strikes me as sad now because Ireland was a place of many trees but they were robbed.
Thank you Collette 🙏🏼💙
So very, very special.
I live in Australia and I couldn’t agree more with everything you’ve said. I think I must have Irish or Celtic ancestors or something as I’ve always had a strange affinity for Ireland.
I learnt something very distressing the other day. We’ve known for years we need to stop cutting down our forests. There’s been much about how much of the Amazon has been lost to ranchers and the illegal logging industry that their government turns a blind eye to.
Yet I learnt that our government, in Queensland in Australia is allowing the logging of The Daintree Rainforest (that is I believe world heritage listed) . They say it to clear the land to provide housing, which this country desperately needs due to the very high level of immigration.
They say this as if that justifies their horrific actions and that no one can complain because of our desperate need. There is plenty of land in our country without destroying one of the most unique rainforests in the world! It’s an absolute crime imo.
You have done the most amazing job at Bealtaine Cottage, how wonderful your woodlands are and how cozy is your cottage. A huge congratulations on all the hard work you have and are putting in to help heal the land there! Sending love and hugs to you and Patsy from Australia ❤🇦🇺
Amazing!
It so good to live a dream it must be very fulfilling for you. Most people just think about and don’t do it.
Thankyou for sharing😊
Sooo beautiful … thank you! Watching from Tasmania 💕😊
Two books you need to read: Finding The Mother Tree by Suzanne Simard and The Oak Papers by James Canton. They are excellent. I haven't heard you mention Poplar trees lots of study about these trees able to absorb so much carbon and they are called Midwood trees. Thank you Birds Way 🐦
I planted quite a few poplar trees in my woodland and they are very tall. It is difficult to name all the trees for there are so many and it is so diverse.
Thank you for those recommendations.
My husband and I sold our semi to move to a small two bedroom beach chalet with a view of the North Sea, fourteen years ago and couldn’t be happier 😅👍🌈❤️
Wow ❤ Just Magnificent and Oh so Magickal ❤ You should be so Proud of what you've accomplished. You are an Inspiration ✨️
Thank you Colette. I've been following you for some years now and that was beautiful...And I loved how we ended up in the Stone Circle!! Blessings to you and little Patsy!!
Always a treat to see your Homestead! I especially love your blue house color.🥰❤🥰
Are there remnants of those Irish oak that they're able to tell the age of the tree(s)? Were they massive like the California Redwoods? Is there any Petrified Wood rocks in Ireland?
My dad was passionate about trees and planted many shelterbelts on the farm, winning Conservation awards for doing so. He took such good care of them and it breaks my heart that the new owner has let them go to ruin. I'm a Prairie Gal, so I HAVE to have my wide open views, but it's been my Dream to have a Secret Garden and to have some trees and shelterbelts around our acreage. I have a neighbor lady who has inspired me with her little backyard sanctuary, especially considering our brutal and extreme conditions out here. I'm excited to say that I'm having some good luck with my bushes and perennials growing and attracting birds, butterflies, and bees- one of my main goals. I have dreams of building micro buildings to house my specific interests- like a bathhouse with a jacuzzi overlooking the creek to enjoy a soak in peace and a micro church to sit in peace and a Tea House for tea parties. I'm thinking of making a "Frontier Town" out in our pasture with little houses for each of my hobbies and collections. It's exciting to dream for the future and to look around to see how far you've come, too. A little at a time eventually adds up! Thank you for your inspiring visits!
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Our beautiful planet.
Our holy mama Gaia.
The energy from trees is so blessed.
I live near redwoods. Walking in a redwood forest is magical. Their stature. The way the fog and sun settles around them. How they welcome you in to their sanctuary, and you want to be quiet and still and then go on listening to the sound of your footsteps and smelling the bark.
Thanks for sharing this beauty.
To dwellers in a wood almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature. At the passing of the breeze the fir-trees sob and moan no less distinctly than they rock; the holly whistles as it battles with itself; the ash hisses amid its quiver-ings; the beech rustles while its flat boughs rise and fall. And winter, which modifies the note of such trees as shed their leaves, does not destroy its individuality.
Thomas Hardy
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Absolutely amazing. It’s the same here in Scotland our trees were cleared from the land at the same time. Most folk don’t even realise. However what you have done certainly gives hope and optimism for the future. Perhaps it comes down to the individual effort to inspire others to do the same. Much love to you and your trees.
Love this video Colette.. The spirits of the ancient land speak to those who want to listen.. The trees whisper to those who want to hear. 🍂 🍁 ❤
Just so beautiful Collette, isn't it wonderful that your father lives on in your woods. Those wonderful healing trees, I always think of Tree Beard in Lord of the Rings and all those mighty trees coming together to defeat evil. Thank you for sharing your wonderful garden and woods with us ♥
Lovely video Colette. Reminded me of your earlier videos with Jack when l first found you , and was inspired by you ! X 🌳🌳🌳
We’ve planted around 70 trees and as many shrubs/ plants (including evergreens) on our newer 2 acres. We moved here 2 yrs ago. We’re in our mid 60’s and my bone joints are giving out. I would love to have more trees but hubs isn’t into it like I am. It’s also important to plant native trees to support the food web, caterpillars & insects (which birds eat) will only host on certain trees. Bees can only digest plant material native to the land they’re on. I need to read more about trees….that was interesting info you gave.
Thank you for sharing your beautiful woodland and yours and it's story. You have worked with the earth so well to create such beauty. Oh to sit there and absorb the ancient history of this land 💚
That was a very moving video. I could feel the trees talking and listening. Nature is soul building. Trees are life. Thank you. ❤
I aspire to have a little home and be able to restore a woodland!!! Everything looks so healthy!! Imagine all of the life your efforts support now. So beautiful!!!!
This is so magical. The woodland is feminine as you say - just so soft and yielding. Autumn is my favourite time of year. Thank you for showing all this and for all that you do. X
Good morning dear Colette! This video fed my soul as I watched it! Have a wonderful day! Blessings to you and little Patsy!
Beauty is made when one takes it in hand. You definitely took it in your hands and transformed it from barron to fertile. Many blessings Collette🧙
What a wonderful video, I absolutely loved it. The memory of the earth is such a beautiful thought. I am so with you in this.
yes please. let's focus on how to create a healthy, peaceful world devoid of destruction. let us tell good and helpful stories for one another. let us share in good news and wise living. let us cultivate kindness and tame anger so that we live as helpful neighbours. the grief is real and our time is now. ~ Deborah