Creation From Devastation.
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- Опубликовано: 7 фев 2025
- A Solitary Celtic Woman, living the Old Ways, following Nature not Ideology...Happiness is staying close to Mother Earth and hunkering down when times get bad! Colette O'Neill is a published author...
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Blessings to you. Love your new little area. Very inspiring. Thank you. 🌱💚🌻🐝🐓🌲❄️
Hi Colette, The world is in a sorrowful state right now, so lovely to watch your video and escape from all the madness! Many blessings to you and dear little Patsy ❤️ 💕 ❤
I am going to make a big effort every day to stay grounded and close to mother Earth! As for the world of man, there is little I can do and shouting makes me hoarse and angry 😡
True Colette, so true. We feel helpless and all we will do is make our health worse. I wish I could live in the countryside, I live 5 mins by car and what a blessing that is, being near the edge of town and we even go into the market town 11miles away just to see the individual shops, little family run businesses and the castle on the hill. I enjoy your vlogs. Calming in a crazy world. Merry Christmas to you and Patsy.❤ Gill
We have to escape the madness alright 😊
For sure it is Elaine, Happy solstice 👍😉🇨🇮☘️Eire
@@bealtainecottage I know that feeling Colette. I stay away from media and no Tv. Happy Solstice and looking forward to the light coming back. I wish you a Merry Christmas and a very happy and healthy new year to you and yours from a Galway girl 💚
Dearest Colette, words cannot convey how much You, Miss Patsy (& all of your soul friends over the years, especially Jack) help me to endure & to eventually pull myself up & out of these past few years of intense sadness. Each video transports my soul to Bealtaine Cottage & gives me a new perspective on how to become the best version of myself. Life can be viewed in the same manner as how you are creating beauty out of destruction, opening up areas that were once dark to life giving light. I am pruning areas of my life that no longer align with my vision of living life with mother nature as my guide. I love you so much, as a Sister of Mother Earth and also a teacher of wisdom in all things. Thank you, thank you, Dearest Colette!❤🎄🐦
Dear Lisa, this makes me so happy to read that my videos help in anyway. In these dark times each and every human being has a choice as to how they navigate forward and how much kindness they share with others on the way. A simple but true philosophy. Blessings to you my friend XXX.
A little piece of heaven on earth in this crazy world ❤
❤Such a very beautiful, uplifting message Colette. Thank you for your supportive spirit, expansive words and creative joyful thoughts and energies. I greatly appreciate your splendid gardens and woodlands, and glorious cottage. Cosmic Abundance Blessings Colette in all that you enjoy creating, as well as, good health and prosperity for both you and Patsy, and your family, community and friends, now, in 2025, and beyond. 🌈💗💫💝🌟🤗🌟💟🌎☮️🌍☮️🌏💟
Collette, I know exactly what you mean. My one acre plot in Oregon is what keeps me grounded in beauty and love rather than fear and sorrow. Yes, tomorrow, Solstice. Blessings, beautiful being.
To live enjoy and kindness is the best way we can honour the divine.
Remember the old adage about coming into this world and trying to make your own little patch a better place than when you first found it. You’ve done that in literal spades, Colette. You’re honouring Mother Nature in the best way possible and must zone out from the actions of those others who have yet to evolve.
Love life and all that it has to offer. You see it for what it really is.
Yule Blessings xx
We are perhaps the only species on this earth capable of creating beauty and so will be held to some account for our destruction instead of choosing to create
Thank you for videos. Our spirit guides are in the gardens we care for. 😊
Your one of the loveliest people in the world Colette. Blessings to you too ❤
You looked so happy and rosy cheeked sitting on the couch amongst those lovely cushions with Patsy.You have opened up the garden so beautifully and it will be exciting to watch the shrubs and plants grow into a fresh tapastry.I love the corner and outsude the barn looks very nice.You are so right about the world,I hardly listen to the news now.Happy Solstice Collette and blessings to you and darling Patsy.
Thank you for your uplifting messages. I, too, mourn the situation in the world and the coming year in the US where I live. I take solace in nature and being grateful for the small blessings the world around me gives me. Blessings to you, sister.
It’s all we can do in these trouble times to live our best life and be kind and thoughtful to all other life.
You’ll be fine, live your life and stop worrying
I am happy now...for next 4 years
Wonderful 🎉 Leave the world to sort itself out !
How exciting to have all these new projects on the list. The gardens are looking wonderful and ready to spring fourth after their cut back. I love variegated holly. There are some large specimens in a park near me that I want to take some cuttings from. Creating new spaces in the woodland and garden is such a welcome reprieve from the sadness of the world. I'm sending solstice blessings to you, Patsy and your family. 💙🕯✨️🧿 Much love and admiration from the North of Spain.
I could watch the birds and listen to their song all day long.
Thank you Colette,for such a beautiful video🦋
Yes, the world seems chaotic at the moment, something we can't control, but can control our space around us. Working in and with nature is so rewarding.
hearing the chimes reminds me of Jack and perhaps he and the wee ones hid it for you to find and enjoy again. Thank you for the lovely walk and sharing your creative self. I know Mother Earth is happy you are connected and thriving with Her
Indeed! In fact finding that cup has brought back a plethora of beautiful memories!
Blessings to you Collette for sharing your time and your energies of kindness, compassion, nurturing, honesty, integrity, caring and understanding through your own unique ways of living life moment by moment ❤🌱🫶🕊☯️🕉🪷🩷💜👍
Your informative and exciting content is life changing and teaching us to understand the importance of creativity and learning to live with harmony and respectfulness for the betterment of life with recycling, renewal and the clarity of respect for all life and the Earth. ❤😊
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You are a breath of fresh air in this crazy, sad world. Thank you for being here, Colette. I'm sending huge hugs to you and Miss Patsy. xo
I feel very healed when I'm outside. I just have a few pots. The world is a beautiful planet. Thank you for your lovely videos.
Beautiful as always Colette ❤
Many Blesdings
I can't hardly wait too see the finished product , especially when they are all blooming. No doubt , the most beautiful acreage in the world . Blessings too you and Patsy .❤❤
It gives me joy just to simply imagine it.
My beautiful granddaughter was born on winter solstice. On Saturday she will be 9 years old . She brings me great joy .
My beautiful granddaughter is 14 on Saturday too ❤❤
I was born on the 1st of November! 😊 My granddaughter will be 12 years old now!
Your enthusiasm is contagious so thank you! Your gardens are looking lovely. Blessings.
Colette, thank you for caring about our beautiful world. For the woodland you have created. For your compassion, integrity, and humanity.
Looking at events, isnotreal, enablers, etc. The powerlessness, anger and despair, we send out love into the world.
Many yuletide blessings to you and yours
You are a beacon of light in the darkness. Big hug Lady.❤
Thank you, my friend
Colette, you always express such beautiful & meaningful things that we all really need to think about. I'm sure most do & others are to busy with the madness going on in their own world. You are truly a blessing & I wish you many more adventures in your woodlands & sharing your beautiful little place to the world.💖💖🥰🥰👏👏❤❤🐶🐶💐💐
Your videos are reaching so many people and that is hope for a peaceful earth and kindness to all beings. Blessings♥️🐇
I hope so!
Solstice Love to you, Collette! Thank you for your wisdom. Thank you for reminding us of the pain and also the beauty and enchantment of life.
I feed the birds almost every day here in NorthEast Pennsylvania. I have 2 feeders in the front of the house and 4 feeders in the back. I also put some food on the ground. I routinely go thru about 100 US$ every few weeks. It does my heart good to see all the birds and chipmunks and squirrels, even a deer or 2 to come to feed. My Mom would just sit and watch the birds all day before she passed. I think so many come in her honor.
Blessings to you and Patsy as the earth transitions yet again. Makes me feel quite insignificant; a feeling I have grown to enjoy. Many thanks for this delicious video treat.
Watching the birds feeding in my garden is such a lovely distraction from all the horrid stuff. Wishing you seasons greetings Colette x
It's always a joy to watch the birds (and squirrels) in my garden. Sometimes it is chaos out there but I love it. Nature is a force to be reckoned with. It can be charming, bringing us the flora and fauna that we all love and it can switch to the most ferocious weather. Mother Earth is the boss. Blessings to you and Patsy. You are doing a great job. 😊
Storm Dar... was venting wrath upon all Europe.... and three Russian oil tankers sunk in the Black Sea! Wales was hard hit too! Sweeping away the old, washing clean, making way for creation! Renewal!
It is so good to see little Patsy so happy! and your incredibly beautiful garden.
your posts have helped me stay in touch with the magic in the natural world during this dark time thank you for all you do happy mid winter
There is widespread desire manifesting in people to return to nature and embrace our true path in this beautiful world. I find this to be very uplifting and reassuring.
Dear Colette,
How l love today's video! ❤
I could almost smell the earth, the soil, whilst watching your video. You live in a beautiful little paradise.
Stunning! Stunning!
Sending love and tons of blessings from South Africa. ❤
Please give little Patsy biiiig hugs from me. 🤗
Thank you🙏
Solstice Blessings to you, Colette, and many, many thanks for your wonderful and inspirational videos all year. It really brightens my day to see you have posted a new one! You give me ideas for my own wild and woolly patch, as you do for so many of us older eco-warriors out there. May you continue your work, and enjoy much happiness and good health in 2025. Blessed Be, from Jackie in North Cork.
My greatest joy is to be in the garden and Woodland, so I’m hoping to keep on keeping on!
Nothing is more therapeutic then good hard work… Good for the body, the mind and the spirit. There was a silver lining in Storm Darragh!
we , you and I are 2 peas in a pod as far as the state of the world however you and your garden are beautiful and peaceful and I thank you for all you do !
Dear Collette thank you for your inspirational videos, you are a kindred spirit! It is wonderful to see that we are not alone! in our feelings about the state of the world! To pull myself out of this dark mood. Now I get up very early every morning and spend three hours every day writing emails and letters to Politicians, World Leaders, the United Nations and those of us who fight for Democracy! I sincerely believe we can make a difference! There is a saying," One tiny drop of water can turn into a Mighty Ocean" Nature is so comforting, inspirational and healing for the soul. Just this morning I saw a tiny rabbit in the snow munching away on a rose my friend had given me! What a joy! There is joy in the world as well as Hope. Love to all!
Good woman for making the time to communicate with those in power. We all do something to help stem the flow of chaos.
I love many things about your posts and your garden, but today, it came to me what I love best about acreage and garden. It is such a wonderful combination of a wild forest and mixed in you have so many different plants and have managed to shape some of them into such art. You have an artful garden. Some are topiaries and some are going somewhat wild. It is that mix that intrigues me. It is perfection. You and Mother Nature have created perfection. Happy Solstice to you and your Patsy girl! I plan on building a fire in my garden on Saturday night and dancing in the moonlight.
Yes! Do it and be gloriously happy!
Happy Solstice Collette and all! ✨️🌍🌎🌏☀️🌟🔥❄️🇨🇦🎅🧦
Blessings to you Colette and all who follow you.
Thank you for sharing your beautiful space of love! 🌳 I love the changes you are making, looking forward to this summer to have a look at everything growing! 👏👏
It’s very dark days in our world Colette but somehow the light will return. Blessings to you Colette and may you enjoy your beautiful woodland and life that you and Mother Nature have created. Thank you storm Dara.❤🇮🇪☘️
Happy Winter Solstice Colette. You just never know what treasure you may find when digging in the dirt. Like your cup. Hugs and love to Patsy and you ♥️ 🎄
So true!
Some years ago I dug up my late Mum’s gold bracelet in her garden. She had lost it several years before. She was so happy, it was the last present that my dad bought her before he died. ❤ Keep digging 😂
@sueprice4082 Oh, how wonderful
I share your emotion, Colette. Thank you for what you do to remind us of the beauty, too. A blessed Solstice to you ❤
BEAUTIFUL, Colette !!! My favorite are the ornamental topiary trees which accent the lushness of the ground cover and other trees so elegantly. 💎💎 -V
I’m live in tropical Queensland Australia…your home often makes me think of when I was a child living in a cold climate in Australia where it snowed. We had a federation home with fireplaces in every room of our house and my job with the help of my mother was to clean out the ash from the fires. We used to scoop them up into a bucket then take them out and put the ash down and make cinder paths throughout the garden. My father thought it was a great idea and decided to get several truckloads and use the ash as a driveway. This worked out well because it was able to absorb a lot of water after the snow melted and I used to love listening for the car tyres crunching on the driveway when he got home from work so I could run outside and he would pick me up and swing me around. We had an acreage property with a veggie patch, a stumpery, a mini orchard with peaches, apricots, nectarines and my favourite cherry trees…a chicken run and a small duck pond with a quince tree for shade (which I absolutely hate with their furry skin) but love the blossom…I so admire your woodland because it reminds me so much of my childhood running free and wild. Take care and stay safe. 🩷🩷🇦🇺🇦🇺
What beautiful memories of childhood you have! Thank you for sharing them with us.
Loving the transformation
Colette your beautiful and yes the world is majical and beautiful.... ❤☘️☘️☘️☘️
Thank you for a beautiful video blessings to you.
Happy yule beautiful soul 😘 . I am not sure of the time difference I live in Arizona. But the sentiment is true. Thank you for being a long distance friend 💕 Blessings be for you and yours.
Another lovely video! I am inspired by the rock wall.
So lovely watching the birds of all types waiting their turns at the birdfeeder. Your garden always yields the most magical items, even a missing mug! It is as though the storm lifted up your garden and gave it a little (or a big) shake. Then it laid it back down for you to re-sort, restore and re-love. The same but different. I have no doubt you will improve the changes. A new season, unexpected yet lovely, you give us all inspiration. Many Blessings ~
Oh what a beautiful picture you have painted with your words 😊
Happy Solstice to you and Patsy!
I'm a cup-half-full kind of woman. But, I am finding it very difficult right now to believe that things are going to get better. I have disconnected from all MSM and almost all independent media. I avoid most people that I know have political opinions and beliefs that don't align with my own. And, I am finding that my life is much more peaceful. I keep myself busy with tasks and projects that give me joy. That's all that I can do to get through each day.
Blessings
I know life is extremely difficult at the moment for most people as it’s hard to believe we live in such a cruel world, but the best we can do is to try to live and enjoy and peace with kindness.
Thank you, Colette, for sharing your honest and raw emotions. I feel very upset, at times, too. I just quit a job I felt trapped in, starting a new narrative for myself. Just another change in my 47 years. Your garden comes about beautifully, with the beloved blackbirds, and all. Take care, and blessed be, happy solstice for you. ❤
My best wishes to you and happiness in your new life 😊
YOU'RE A STAR COLLETTE , AND ALWAYS ON THE BALL 😊
Happy winter solstice 🌅
Lovely escapism watching your videos , always inspire’s me to enjoy my own garden overlooking fields and woods , I’ve found I look much more deeply and appreciate my beautiful space more since I started to watch your videos. Love to you and Patsy and a peaceful Yuletide to you both ❤️❤️
Happy Solstice Colette!!! May you find Peace, Joy, Love and be greatly Blessed each day!!!
Very Good Colette,I love this what You did.All the best for You and your sweet companion 🥰🫶🐼🎄
Happy winter solstice to you Colette in your magical woodlands and to all you wonderful gardeners around the world.
This is a very special day of celebration.
Love and light to all of you ❤
You got so much accomplished!!! Your garden areas look great and despite their trauma, the plants look happy and healthy! Blessings to you during this lovely season!
Thank you Colette and friends. Happy Solstice to you - yours Winter - ours Summer. Wish we had some of your season and moderating rain to allay the bushfires. Woodlands and gardens, arid lands and oceans, always evolving, independently and with supportive creative energy of mother-earth and ocean loving folk. Such a sad and tragic state of so many parts of the world. Absolute arrogance of greed and stupidity. Q :What is the difference between intelligence and stupidity? A: There is a limit to (human) intelligence. We are blessed if we are geographically far enough away from the turmoil, where we can attempt to create natural sanctuaries of peace and beauty.
From Annie Martha, and JanLouise via Marcie
So very true and so very upsetting.
So lovely to see and hear you being enthused and engrossed in a new project; and glad that it is redirecting your mind away from that chaos that non of us ordinary folk can do anything about. I went down to the allotment after the storm full of gloom only to be refreshed by getting involved in setting everything to rights again. Because of the gaps it left my daughter and I have decided to trial a few of our beds using the forest gardening/permaculture system so are getting enthused by planning all that out. As long as I can get outside I am able to find a calm space when all the important things come to the fore. Blessings from the Welsh valleys.
The aftermath of the storm has gifted me enthusiasm for life.
Those lovely Collar Doves on the bird feeder, at 6:40! Happy Solstice, Collette and Patsy, and all the creatures at Bealtaine Cottage! ❤
The beautiful doves were released from Kilronan Castle during a wedding ceremony and decided to come and live at Bealtaine cottage!
@@bealtainecottage
Oh that's wonderful, Colette!
They found their home sweet home.
Dear Colette- Not unusual but I was especially touched by your podcast today! The state of the world, the need for balance and the beauty of this moon. I am writing from North Carolina and also stopped to take in the magical beauty of THIS moon- something about just spoke to my heart.
Wishing you joy and peace❤
So beautiful and peaceful Colette, thank you for sharing your beautiful garden 👍😉🇨🇮☘️Eire
Beautiful video as always! Happy Solstice to you and Patsy.☀️🌚🐕
I do so enjoy your videos. They are so inspiring and give me encouragement to continue in my gardening.❤👍
Thank you for reminding me. A good day to celebrate. After the shortest day of the year, the days start getting longer ever so gradually. I love these visits to your garden woods & home. So much to my taste if I had the property. Good job creating your paradise. ❤
I quite agree Collette, this world is in such a sorrowful state.
Being able to live on land like you, I feel that it lets me feel into what our world has in relation to beauty.
Love what you are doing from the Darragh damage . Mother Earth will be what saves us all so we that can need to do what we can to help it. ❤🙏
Much love from Australia
Colette, have a Jolly Good Solstice 🥂🔥🪵. Love the rock edging and the new plant bed. So happy for you. Airy and open space is good for the forest and you. 😉
❤ beautiful sharing • thank you Colette 🙏
I, too get excited to work out in the yard this time of year when the sun shines & the temperatures are cool. This is the best time to do heavy hard scaping & get things in the ground. I removed quite a few potted plants by planting them in the ground this year.
Have a wonderful Solstice!
The world is a better place watching your videos Colette. Thank you for making them as they bring much joy. From a 🇬🇧subscriber who also loves to work in her garden. ❤
Your hair looks amazing, Colette! Loving the tousled look - it really suits you. 😊
Thank you so much 🙂
Yes working on 3 by 4 feet at a time you are achieving a wonderful oasis. 😊😊
Everything looks beautiful.
I enjoy these little chats with you and Patsy. Blessings to you and Patsy.
I'm just amazed at you being able to garden this time of year. Love that rock border around your plants. Love the blue color of your cottage- it looks like a Watercolor of Mermaid colors with such a variance of beautiful "iridescent" color.
My Bohemian Grandmother used to bag up her leaves in the fall to put around her trailer to insulate it for the winter. My Dad would till them into her garden in the spring and she had the blackest, most beautiful soil I've ever seen. It's my bucket list dream to get enough trees to grow on my property to get enough leaves to have soil like hers (and yours).
All I have to do is leave the leaves where they fall in the woodland and only clear them from the gravel around the cottage.
I absolutely love your creativity, the great woods you have brought to life!! I will be celebrating Soltice with my dear friends 🥰🩵💙🌝⭐️💫🎼
Have fun!
Dear Colette, you're not alone feeling the terriblness in the world. So many people are suffering, so many bad leaders, the nature is doing poorly as well...many people feel it and are so worried... It was like you were talking directly to me, thank you for reaching out. I agree with you wholeheartedly about the ability to create and see the beauty is a true blessing. Have a lovely Christmas, wishing you the best health. ❤️
And may your Christmas be blessed with wonderful things and love.
Many blessings on this solstice eve to you and Patsy xxxx
The new bed looks terrific Colette🤗💚💚
Winter Solstice blessings, I’m excited to see the new planting mature, your such an inspiration to me xxx
Looking great!
❤ Thank you Collette and Patsy for bringing some positivity to my day! You are a pure joy. Regarding your cup you recovered, hope you Will use it as it will be so wonderfully charged after all this time in the ground. Im in a beautiful village in Wales and I need a kick in the breeches as im not utilising the magical land around me as ive felt swamped by the crazy😢 I need to break the stranglehold as you have done. X
It takes a concerted effort to break free from the stranglehold of chaos, but we must always remember that chaos itself is energy that we can and should always transform into creation.
There is something magical no matter the season when working in the garden.
It's like the winter season calls you out to it and directs you to what it needs.
Whether that is pruning chopping or relocating a plant or tree.
Until I started watching you, I never saw the mirrored cycles between Mother Earth, the seasons, and myself.
Not being one for the winter season, I must say I am beginning to see its beauty and have a longing to be outside more.
Winter is a cold and painful season for me physically. Thermals are a God send. 😂
Blessings to you and Patsy from Leicester England 😊xx
It is true that each season has a special beauty and casts a unique enchantment upon us. Once we realise this, our lives take on a certain magic that is an essence child like.
Hiya Colette. Bright blessings to you and your darling Patsy xx
Hiya Colette Thankyou for sharing Bealtaine. Blessings Ontario Canada 🇨🇦🐝
live vicariously through you planting. Here where I am in TN the soil is all rock and clay. you have to practically blast a hole to get anything planted. luckily we do have a tractor that will til down for a garden, but the rest is pots and this year we will do some raised beds. (which part of me really doesn't like because it is not planting IN the earth where the Divine energy really flows through the plant. oye. One good thing is that since we do have A LOT of rock, I can do small " natural raised" circles and plant annuals.
What a lovely crackling garden fire, we can almost smell it. I used to have an allotment. Making fires (and Potash fires) is one of life's pleasures. I have no access to a garden now.
It is indeed!
Blessings to all and Patsy and happy Solstice 🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿❤❤❤
Hi 👋 Collette and Mrs patsy!!
I've had a hard week with my lil pup being sick, so was very happy to see this pop up! Happy Christmas to you and Patsy ❤
Hope all is well now 🙏
@bealtainecottage thank you! She's in recovery thankfully ❤️
The moon has indeed been extraordinarily beautiful and has risen in the most northern degree in 19 years. Happy Solstice to you and yours.😊
I love Mother Earth. When we step back into her world, we realize she has always been there for us. She provides and reminds us that we are her children......and the False world we've been programmed to believe in...can only do harm. Mother Earth is patient and needs us to step back into her world of magic and enchantment 🌙 ✨ ☮
Wow looking at that last pic from the video it really shows just how much cutting back you have done. It's such fun to make changes and figure out what should go where with a new idea. I too am looking forward to the solstice. These early evenings and late mornings are hard to take. I've been busy though figuring out where there are bare spots in my beds that need something added in and making notes about divisions to take and where to put them. It's so much fun to envision a new look.
It was amazing to realise that the storm brought with it such a lot of new energy that was missing in my life.
You are made in the image of our Creator, as am I. Joy comes when we do what He created us to do. So happy you are creating again! Blessings to you too! ❤ Thank you for sharing your amazing handiwork! ❤❤❤
I call that divine inspiration !