So I can’t save the world- can’t save even myself, can’t wrap my arms around every frightened child, can’t foster peace among nations, can’t bring love to all who feel unlovable. So I practice opening my heart right here in this room and being gentle with my insufficiency. I practice walking down the street heart first. And if it is insufficient to share love, I will practice loving anyway. I want to converse about truth, about trust. I want to invite compassion into every interaction. One willing heart can’t stop a war. One willing heart can’t feed all the hungry. And sometimes, daunted by a task too big, I tell myself what’s the use of trying? But today, the invitation is clear: to be ridiculously courageous in love. To open the heart like a lilac in May, knowing freeze is possible and opening anyway. To take love seriously. To give love wildly. To race up to the world as if I were a puppy, adoring and unjaded, stumbling on my own exuberance. To feel the shock of indifference, of anger, of cruelty, of fear, and stay open. To love as if it matters, as if the world depends on it. Poem " Because" by rosemary wahtola Trommer / from tea with a druid . 🙏💜( I listened to last night ,and thought this poem very fitting. You are sadly very right Collette .
Thank you for using your big platform to talk about this. I’ve been living in a sense of horror for months watching what’s governments are doing to people Thank you for speaking up and speaking out ❤🇮🇪
The labour government are riding roughshod over our British values... the world's old men politicians and leaders continually waging war against even their own people.... everything is going to pot...thank you for your rant dear Colette....xx
❤Thanks for the power of speaking ..the world will heal believe me,2025 will be the year of shocking news what goverments did or planning alot of wars etc theitr time is coming to an end and they know but they still have plans for a world wore3...that will not happen!,,, 2025 is the year for the people around the world to come togheter, love and help for the lies about a lot of things , man are not awake and will be in shock. You are a powerful woman BB❤❤❤❤
Thank you for speaking up about the horrors that are occurring right under our noses. Some people choose to turn a blind eye or point fingers as to “who started it first”. People don’t realise their silence helps to feed this psychopathic evil. Many have lost their humanity and try to justify the thousands of deaths of people and children by supporting one side over the other. War is war, there are no winners in war only death and destruction of mother earth. It’s time to choose and embrace our common humanity rather than looking at superficial political differences. It’s us commoners against the 1% evil elite who are fuelling these wars for profit. The sooner we stand together instead of allowing them to divide and “rule” us by their daily propoganda and brainwashing on mainstream media, the sooner the world can become a better place. You are doing a wonderful job at Bealtaine cottage, Colette. You have inspired thousands, including myself to return to nature, reconnect with the land and start growing my own veggies and just to “plant as if my life depends on it for it does….” Collette O’Neill❤🙏
@@morrigans_cottage Hi, I've just seen your comment and visited your channel, and subscribing now. When in Ireland I'm based in Drumshanbo, co. Leitrim, not so far from Colette's Cottage, and look forward to being back soon. Hope to meet you in person as well. Congratulations on your project: going to show it to people here in Italy as I do with Colette's videos: you can inspire so many! Ciao, slán, have a gorgeous day. Kitia
@@kitiamuriel hi Kitia! Awh thank you so much! I’m based only about 30/40mins from Leitrim so definitely when you’re back over we must meet for a tea or coffee! I absolutely Italy, one of my favourite countries to visit so much history and good food! 😍😍😍
You are expressing the outrage and sorrow that many of us feel about these so-called leaders using our tax dollars to wage their endless wars. Thank you for your courage. Keep on speaking your truth. We are listening.
You’re not alone, Colette. So many of us share your outrage and sorrow. An occasional rant is good…good for you and your complexion. 😊 Best wishes and keep speaking your mind. From British Columbia, Canada.
I so rarely comment on UA-cam but I was compelled to come and say thank you Colette for your words which sang out to me. We are living in dark times and its refreshing to hear someone challenge Government and MSM with their perpetual lies and agendas. Sending love and solidarity 💜
The lunacy of the military industrial complex makes me feel distraught. My heart breaks for people suffering in war zones. I understand your need to rant! Blessings Colette
And recent research shows that trees communicate with each other through and underground web of fungi and microrhyzomes (sp?). I wonder if this one is near a grove of ancient oaks and is helped by them?
Yes dear Colette…I weep every day when I say my devotions. I tell the Lord that I just don’t understand how we can all be so cruel to each other. We don’t have to love each other, but we should be able to tolerate each other with kindness, compassion,and acceptance. I pray that all the conflicts throughout our world can come to some human resolution. It will take so much work, I know, but I feel our earth and each other are very much worth it…. I truly want to live the remainder of my life in obscurity…tending my gardens and caring for my animals. Also caring for my dear neighbors and their families. I am by no means an introvert but I only leave my dear home to be with my friends, shop farmers markets, doctor appointments, and to pick up feed for my 4 legged friends. My home is my safe place…everyone should have one! Blessing to you and Patsy! 🌻🍁🌻
Colette, you're voicing the concerns that many of us share. My husband and I have stopped watching the news; it seems the world has lost its way. At 69, I find some solace in being at this stage of my life, but my heart is heavy with worry for my young grandchildren and all the children around the globe.
Susan I so agree.I was so angry at BBC PAYING Hugh Edward’s 470.000 pounds damages after being found guilty of paedofiddling. I won’t pay my licence fee as I feel it is condoning his actions. 😡My life is so much mote peaceful 👍
The number #1 reason I come back to you each and every week is because you are real!!! I wholeheartedly agree. Your love and mine of Mother Divine and the ultimate hope for Peace and the salvation of humanity is what keeps me up at night as well. Children all over the World who are in the midst of War…the Trauma they are experiencing breaks my damn heart ♥️ 💔 I am glad to not be alone. Blessed Be Collette.
I weep everyday. People keep telling me they are worried about my mental health and my obsession with Gaza. Family and acquaintances tell me that I need to focus on something else and that I am being consumed. I have to admit - it hurts - it hurts a lot when family and coworkers and friends say this to me. In actuality, it is their indifference, their silence, their non-chalant consumption of MCDonalds and starbucks, their refusal to engage with any content about the horrors that have been unleashed on Gaza and Palestine, and the West Bank, and Lebanon, for decades that is making me feel the most lonely, the most unseen, the most mentally unwell. There is no way I can express how much you speaking out and using your platform helps me. I am forever grateful and humbled. Thank you! -Love from Ohio
It’s perfectly normal to feel sad and wanting to do something about atrocities…but at the same time your loved ones SHOULD be concerned about your mental health, because from the way this is written suggest your obsessing thinking on this subject IS unhealthy and potentially dangerous.
Yes the world and its people tettors on. So much indifference. It is disorienting. It is a challenge keeping a balance. Love, a solution. The pearl of great price. Yet is freely give.
you should try and figure out what else Is ra-el gets up to, not only in the middle east... that should make you think twice about what's going on in the world, and has been for many years already... what is happening in Gaza is only a tip of this iceberg....
I’m totally behind you Collette 👍 some people are so small minded that they nit pick on the small things because they are not intelligent enough to see the big things! They are just silly trolls!
A simple thank you. The world is becoming a scary place and what you said needs to be said again and again until the politicians hear us!!! Once again thank you.
Colette, I salute you! Thousands times. For telling the truth, for your integrity, for who you are. I don't have a platform to speak, to shout, to say the words to the world, so I thank you for doing it 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻It's absolutely horrendous what's going on in Gaza and Lebanon, abd how the world is watching from afar. But not just watching - they are pretending it's just another " military operation", not another genocide. I have no words, thank you 🙏🏻 There is no politicians now, they are all members of the same club, with the same agenda. Same in every country. Time to wake up people.
I wish I could give you a hug. From someone who has no strong, outspoken, protective mothers left. You filled in their spot today with your power. Your family is blessed to have you. 🍀
Aww so beautiful. I agree it’s a blessing to have women who speak out about those things that harm Mother Earth and her children. Colette is so nurturing and healing, in a world that has so much conflict, divided opinion, rage and anger. I come here for the peace and grace she holds, a very special lady.
No need to apologize for sharing your thoughts and opinions because what you’re saying is so true. You’re an inspiration to so many in so many ways. We can’t change many things because we don’t have the power or influence but we can bloom where we are planted doing what we can.
So bloody right Colette! Well said! I hate politicians too, not interested,don’t want to know any more! I moved here 12 years ago and at first had fields around me, now it’s just houses, so over the time I’ve been here I’ve endeavoured to make my garden an oasis for wildlife and planted trees and re wilded areas. Now I’m approaching 70 I’ve turned my back on the whole kit and caboodle of government and this is now my own little oasis along with the wildlife. I’ve completely given up on governments and society and just pray that when I’m gone there will still be places of nature and escape for my grandchildren and my great grandchildren. Heartfelt blessings to you Colette and all you do in your own way for the natural world 🙏🙏🙏❤❤❤🥰🥰🥰
That Lichen on your tree shows that you have regrown a little pocket of our lost European Rainforest. Yes, the Earth holds memory, you can feel it at every ancient site. Bealtaine Cottage is a paradise.
Absolutely!!! For the last year I have been living in this dystopian world where a genocide and wars are happening and encouraged and the world doesn't care (or even worse, agrees with it). I am heart broken and angry also. Thank you for your honesty and love what you are creating at the cottage. Blessings to YOU! 💔
Well done Collette!!! I live in America & have felt this way for a long time, even lost friends bc of my opinion. Guess they weren't "friends" to begin with. Keep your beautiful energy bright with your surrounding beauty🥰🥰💖💖
BRAVO!! Yes, this rant was necessary. Yes, the people in power are like ruthless robots & are not 'for the people'. For years/decades I tired to understand; I worried, I cried and I got furious... Then, I realized that all I could really do was control what what was in my little world. My mental health improved & physical health improved & I made peace with myself. No, the governments didn't change & the economy didn't get better but I did. I didn't want to spend what few years I have left in turmoil over things I couldn't control. We must each find our joy, do what we can & that's really all we can do. Sending blessings from USA~
Collette, your rant is truth and thank you for being so brave to speak it. This video made me think of an Emily Dickinson poem: If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain; If I can ease one life the aching, Or cool one pain, Or help one fainting robin Unto his nest again, I shall not live in vain.
I find that I actually really appreciate your rants, each and every time, and I have to admit you have added to the list (now, also at the top) that my husband and I have regarding all of the things going on, all over the world, that generate so much more pollution than our car or using a piece of oasis for a flower arrangement. People get so caught up in the little, ridiculously stupid stuff that have virtually no impact on our environment. Thank you for saying everything today and I appreciate your son's information, as well. Keep fighting the fight.
Bless You Colette❤ 100% agree ..💚 and the backdrop of woodland behind you is the embodiment of your words...one woman..3 acres... sending so much Love 🙏💚
It’s all the same fight, Colette. Your rant on the military is completely in line with your support of Mother Earth. Power to the people and the planet. Thank you for using your platform in such a constructive manner. ☮️💙💧 Free Palestine. 🍉
Always will be cowards hiding behind their screens criticising … probably without any understanding of the truth. You keep doing what you are doing Colette and don’t lose any more sleep over the haters. Don’t give them the satisfaction of knowing how upset you are. You are an inspirational woman x
So true and they must have deleted their comments because I just can’t find them. Weird. I wanted to read the comments but they are gone. Cowards. So many dishonest people in the world, it’s essential we have truth tellers like Colette to expose the lies.
Exactly right! Anyone offended by this video is living under a rock...just saying. Colette, I very much appreciate what you're doing in Ireland, and I'm trying something similar, albeit on a much smaller plot of land over here in Tennessee in the USA. I started watching your channel not long after my mom passed away and you've given me great inspirations on continuing to plant and plant. Sending many hugs to you.
I had a nightmare that the 8 acres of trees beyond my back yard had been cut away. My only remaining comfort amid the many people killed by war and weather. It's overwhelming. Hold tight to your woodland Colette. Peace and Love from Maryland🌻
Cannot even imagine how painful that was/is. Even one tree cut down breaks my heart and you must have loved them so much. I hope you can plant more things to fight back in your own way. Hugs from the UK.❤ ❤❤❤
Hello from Cyprus 🇨🇾 Well said Colette ❤️ it is all consuming. There will be peace, but we have to create it. It certainly is our privilege to change things and to live in a more compassionate world. I concur 💋
Thank you for your clear and very true words about the complete insanity and hypocrisy of the modern human world! But there is the universe of nature , and this still makes me happy!
Thank you Sister, we need people to speak out about this, perhaps then we may be left in peace to tend and marvel at all that Mother Earth has within her.❤
All of these leafy, blooming creatures know your voice, your very footsteps. The blessings and the gifts work both ways. They know your heart and you know theirs.... what a gift !!! Thank you for holding this much needed LOVE for our Mother. especially now.
I followed you more than a decade ago on Twitter because of your convictions and saw it demonstrated in your work at the cottage. I can't say I've known you personally, but I can say I've known you truly because this message is the same that caught my attention years ago
Yes Collette!👏👏👏 As a young woman I lived at Greenham Common Womens Peace Camp 40 years ago, and 100% agree with every word you've said here. Too many simply turn away, don't want to see whats happening, while some of us weep at the brutality, destruction and utter madness we see happening on Mother Earth. ❤
Hi Carol, did you know Jean O'Rourke? She served a prison sentence for her civil disobedience at Greenham Common. She has passed away now, such a lovely lady 💗
@@louisemartin7728 Hi Louise, no I didn't know her. I remember the day we Embraced the Base in 1982, around 30,000 women were there, and the following day many,many women were arrested for civil disobedience. It was a terrible sight to see so many peaceful women carted off. I still have all my photographs taken on that particular day, as well as others over the time period I stayed there.
I totally agree with your rant, 100% And although I am constantly shocked by politicians I think I am even more shocked by the lack of real investigative journalism whose job it should be to expose the liars and hypocrites for what they are.
There are some excellent journalists - online : See Chris Hedges, Owen Jones, Novara Media, Declassified UK, The Grayzone etc. but the deeper you look, the more overwhelming it becomes.....
Well said Colette! Totally agree. Too many people have their heads buried deeply in the sand! I wish more people would wake up to the reality of what is actually going on, instead of getting caught up in the deliberate distractions being doled out!
Well done, Colette. We need to hear these things. I saw the movie Lee yesterday. True story about the WW11 photographer Lee Miller and the horrors she saw. I left the cinema feeling sad and angry that we haven't learnt anything yet. Keep doing what you do 🙌✨️👏💕
Bravo!!! You are so right about what's really going on, and people need to wake up and know about it. What I LOVE is that your life, the work you've done, the planting of a paradise sings out with practical solutions to the frustrations we feel in our lives. We can all make a difference no matter where we live in the world and what's going on politically and culturally. Thank you for speaking up and Blessings to you and Patsy!
Well said dear Colette!! Congrats for this MARVELLOUS rant!! you know what?... I definitely love your rants because they are full of meaning and emotion, and of course, of wisdom and experience, you dont talk "by the book" you talk trough experience, and that is very much encouraging. BIG THANK YOU. and big hug from Buenos Aires
Absolutely right. I've just come back from Lebanon because my son married a lebanese girl last Sunday. None of our guests went, only my husband and myself. I never saw a bomb or fighting but the country is so run down by constant wars. It's a really beautiful place but full of rubbish everywhere because there is no infrastructure to provide services for the people. As you say, the world could be beautiful for everyone if we had government's who cared but they care for their own power and global control. As for plastic, just look at plastic bags. They still use them but now we pay for them. I will never mention these things here again and spoil your beautiful channel which has helped me so much through bad times. God bless you Colette.❤
So true, so so very true!!!. I really do hope that the troubles around the world do not spread for the sake of all our sons and daughters no matter which country, what religion or culture we all come from. Great power comes from the human race working together as one, not hating and fighting one another and causing destruction around the world in the process of doing so !!!!!!! I send my love out to you all, and especially to the poor people who are now experiencing conflict in their country, please may there be peace soon xx
Thank you Colette for airing what so many feel. It is truly incomprehensible what we have all been witnessing and how it is presented as if there is anything legitimate about it all. I will always have hope though for what you said , peace on earth . Your oak tree is magical and I love what you said about the earth holding the memory of those great oak trees.
You have done beautiful work on your land! _I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own._ - Andy Warhol
Just remember Collette you have contributed more to the planet in the last 20 years than any po.itician.❤❤ Its people like you that are getting me through.When I speak to friends they all say they are so depressed by our so called leaders. I live in West Sussex UK while out shopping in our Cathedral city of Chichester a homeless man was asleep in the middle of the pavement while people rushed by him.We are loosing our humanity😢 so thank God for the beauty you present me.Much love and blessings to you❤❤❤
I never ever comment on your or any site untill today. I agree wholeheartedly with your rant today. Well done Collette you have spoken for me my views exactly. Sending love to you and patsy xx
Im here again in the middle of the night came to check in on the comments. I am amazed not one negative comment! Wow at last people have woken up if we are a macro of the collective that's good news. A year ago I posted in support of Gaza on your comments feed and I did not get one like other than you Collette. Now look, it's a v good sign. Not sure what we are all going to do about it, but at least I feel a bit less alone now. We must have faith that some we can free ourselves from this situation.. I have hope but I don't think a new gov is the answer.
Thank you for your utmost relevant and important rant....I for one will raise my voice even louder because this HAS to be addressed and brought to the public's conscience ❤🕊 God Bless 🙏
Thank you Colette!!
Amin!
This is so refreshing...I am sure so many of us think like this...thank you
So I can’t save the world-
can’t save even myself,
can’t wrap my arms around
every frightened child, can’t
foster peace among nations,
can’t bring love to all who
feel unlovable.
So I practice opening my heart
right here in this room and being gentle
with my insufficiency. I practice
walking down the street heart first.
And if it is insufficient to share love,
I will practice loving anyway.
I want to converse about truth,
about trust. I want to invite compassion
into every interaction.
One willing heart can’t stop a war.
One willing heart can’t feed all the hungry.
And sometimes, daunted by a task too big,
I tell myself what’s the use of trying?
But today, the invitation is clear:
to be ridiculously courageous in love.
To open the heart like a lilac in May,
knowing freeze is possible
and opening anyway.
To take love seriously.
To give love wildly.
To race up to the world
as if I were a puppy,
adoring and unjaded,
stumbling on my own exuberance.
To feel the shock of indifference,
of anger, of cruelty, of fear,
and stay open. To love as if it matters,
as if the world depends on it.
Poem " Because" by rosemary wahtola Trommer / from tea with a druid . 🙏💜( I listened to last night ,and thought this poem very fitting. You are sadly very right Collette .
Love this poem, Rosemary writes and speaks from her heart at all times. Thank you for sharing
🙏💖🌟🌳🌲🍂🍁
Thank you for sharing - this is beautiful ❤
Thank you for sharing this significant poem. 💖
Thank you for your rant. If everyone on the planet could spend a few minutes with you, there would be more peace and less war. ❤️
I saw this Tea also . Quite moving. (OBOD)
Thank you for using your big platform to talk about this. I’ve been living in a sense of horror for months watching what’s governments are doing to people Thank you for speaking up and speaking out ❤🇮🇪
The labour government are riding roughshod over our British values... the world's old men politicians and leaders continually waging war against even their own people.... everything is going to pot...thank you for your rant dear Colette....xx
❤Thanks for the power of speaking ..the world will heal believe me,2025 will be the year of shocking news what goverments did or planning alot of wars etc theitr time is coming to an end and they know but they still have plans for a world wore3...that will not happen!,,, 2025 is the year for the people around the world to come togheter, love and help for the lies about a lot of things , man are not awake and will be in shock. You are a powerful woman BB❤❤❤❤
Thank you for speaking up about the horrors that are occurring right under our noses. Some people choose to turn a blind eye or point fingers as to “who started it first”. People don’t realise their silence helps to feed this psychopathic evil. Many have lost their humanity and try to justify the thousands of deaths of people and children by supporting one side over the other. War is war, there are no winners in war only death and destruction of mother earth. It’s time to choose and embrace our common humanity rather than looking at superficial political differences. It’s us commoners against the 1% evil elite who are fuelling these wars for profit. The sooner we stand together instead of allowing them to divide and “rule” us by their daily propoganda and brainwashing on mainstream media, the sooner the world can become a better place. You are doing a wonderful job at Bealtaine cottage, Colette. You have inspired thousands, including myself to return to nature, reconnect with the land and start growing my own veggies and just to “plant as if my life depends on it for it does….” Collette O’Neill❤🙏
@@morrigans_cottage Hi, I've just seen your comment and visited your channel, and subscribing now. When in Ireland I'm based in Drumshanbo, co. Leitrim, not so far from Colette's Cottage, and look forward to being back soon. Hope to meet you in person as well. Congratulations on your project: going to show it to people here in Italy as I do with Colette's videos: you can inspire so many! Ciao, slán, have a gorgeous day. Kitia
@@kitiamuriel hi Kitia! Awh thank you so much! I’m based only about 30/40mins from Leitrim so definitely when you’re back over we must meet for a tea or coffee! I absolutely Italy, one of my favourite countries to visit so much history and good food! 😍😍😍
You are expressing the outrage and sorrow that many of us feel about these so-called leaders using our tax dollars to wage their endless wars. Thank you for your courage. Keep on speaking your truth. We are listening.
Keep on ranting collette, I stand 100% with you ❤
100% agree!!!
As do I 🌼
You’re not alone, Colette. So many of us share your outrage and sorrow. An occasional rant is good…good for you and your complexion. 😊 Best wishes and keep speaking your mind. From British Columbia, Canada.
I so rarely comment on UA-cam but I was compelled to come and say thank you Colette for your words which sang out to me.
We are living in dark times and its refreshing to hear someone challenge Government and MSM with their perpetual lies and agendas.
Sending love and solidarity 💜
The lunacy of the military industrial complex makes me feel distraught. My heart breaks for people suffering in war zones. I understand your need to rant! Blessings Colette
Water holds memory and it flows through the roots of the land and trees 🌲
And recent research shows that trees communicate with each other through and underground web of fungi and microrhyzomes (sp?). I wonder if this one is near a grove of ancient oaks and is helped by them?
Precisely!!! La sangre de madre tierra (The blood of Mother Earth)
Yes dear Colette…I weep every day when I say my devotions. I tell the Lord that I just don’t understand how we can all be so cruel to each other. We don’t have to love each other, but we should be able to tolerate each other with kindness, compassion,and acceptance. I pray that all the conflicts throughout our world can come to some human resolution. It will take so much work, I know, but I feel our earth and each other are very much worth it…. I truly want to live the remainder of my life in obscurity…tending my gardens and caring for my animals. Also caring for my dear neighbors and their families. I am by no means an introvert but I only leave my dear home to be with my friends, shop farmers markets, doctor appointments, and to pick up feed for my 4 legged friends. My home is my safe place…everyone should have one! Blessing to you and Patsy! 🌻🍁🌻
Colette, you're voicing the concerns that many of us share. My husband and I have stopped watching the news; it seems the world has lost its way. At 69, I find some solace in being at this stage of my life, but my heart is heavy with worry for my young grandchildren and all the children around the globe.
Susan I so agree.I was so angry at BBC PAYING Hugh Edward’s 470.000 pounds damages after being found guilty of paedofiddling. I won’t pay my licence fee as I feel it is condoning his actions. 😡My life is so much mote peaceful 👍
I applaud your rant! And I agree with everything you said ❤
The number #1 reason I come back to you each and every week is because you are real!!! I wholeheartedly agree. Your love and mine of Mother Divine and the ultimate hope for Peace and the salvation of humanity is what keeps me up at night as well. Children all over the World who are in the midst of War…the Trauma they are experiencing breaks my damn heart ♥️ 💔 I am glad to not be alone. Blessed Be Collette.
I'm glad you said it. Every word.
Yay! A Colette rant!
❤❤❤
Yes!!
Yes !
I’m with you. And not sleeping well.
Well said . This doesn't get talked about and should be front and center in protecting our precious Mother Earth and the inhabitants that reside here.
Exactly! But meanwhile, all anyone wants to do is argue about politics....meanwhile, none of those politicians care.
I weep everyday. People keep telling me they are worried about my mental health and my obsession with Gaza. Family and acquaintances tell me that I need to focus on something else and that I am being consumed. I have to admit - it hurts - it hurts a lot when family and coworkers and friends say this to me. In actuality, it is their indifference, their silence, their non-chalant consumption of MCDonalds and starbucks, their refusal to engage with any content about the horrors that have been unleashed on Gaza and Palestine, and the West Bank, and Lebanon, for decades that is making me feel the most lonely, the most unseen, the most mentally unwell. There is no way I can express how much you speaking out and using your platform helps me. I am forever grateful and humbled. Thank you! -Love from Ohio
I feel as strongly about this as you. You're not alone. Keep talking about it, I stand with you.
It’s perfectly normal to feel sad and wanting to do something about atrocities…but at the same time your loved ones SHOULD be concerned about your mental health, because from the way this is written suggest your obsessing thinking on this subject IS unhealthy and potentially dangerous.
Yes the world and its people tettors on. So much indifference. It is disorienting. It is a challenge keeping a balance.
Love, a solution. The pearl of great price. Yet is freely give.
And the horror that was unleashed on the women, men and children of Israel on October 7th of last year by Hamas of Gaza 😢
you should try and figure out what else Is ra-el gets up to, not only in the middle east... that should make you think twice about what's going on in the world, and has been for many years already... what is happening in Gaza is only a tip of this iceberg....
I’m totally behind you Collette 👍 some people are so small minded that they nit pick on the small things because they are not intelligent enough to see the big things! They are just silly trolls!
So true!!
A simple thank you. The world is becoming a scary place and what you said needs to be said again and again until the politicians hear us!!! Once again thank you.
They have no intention of listening………………ever! They don’t work for you in your current status.
❤❤❤ you are so right Collette. WE NEED PEACE. . We need to shout out to stand together for what is right .
Colette, I salute you! Thousands times. For telling the truth, for your integrity, for who you are. I don't have a platform to speak, to shout, to say the words to the world, so I thank you for doing it 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻It's absolutely horrendous what's going on in Gaza and Lebanon, abd how the world is watching from afar. But not just watching - they are pretending it's just another " military operation", not another genocide. I have no words, thank you 🙏🏻 There is no politicians now, they are all members of the same club, with the same agenda. Same in every country. Time to wake up people.
YOU ARE SO RIGHT !! Thank you for speaking out ! Here in Holland it is exactly the same misery 😢
Same here in America, it's a shit show. 😢
I wish I could give you a hug. From someone who has no strong, outspoken, protective mothers left. You filled in their spot today with your power. Your family is blessed to have you. 🍀
Aww so beautiful. I agree it’s a blessing to have women who speak out about those things that harm Mother Earth and her children. Colette is so nurturing and healing, in a world that has so much conflict, divided opinion, rage and anger. I come here for the peace and grace she holds, a very special lady.
No need to apologize for sharing your thoughts and opinions because what you’re saying is so true. You’re an inspiration to so many in so many ways. We can’t change many things because we don’t have the power or influence but we can bloom where we are planted doing what we can.
So bloody right Colette! Well said! I hate politicians too, not interested,don’t want to know any more! I moved here 12 years ago and at first had fields around me, now it’s just houses, so over the time I’ve been here I’ve endeavoured to make my garden an oasis for wildlife and planted trees and re wilded areas. Now I’m approaching 70 I’ve turned my back on the whole kit and caboodle of government and this is now my own little oasis along with the wildlife. I’ve completely given up on governments and society and just pray that when I’m gone there will still be places of nature and escape for my grandchildren and my great grandchildren. Heartfelt blessings to you Colette and all you do in your own way for the natural world 🙏🙏🙏❤❤❤🥰🥰🥰
Well said Colette! 👏🏽🎉It needed to be said and you said it beautifully.
That Lichen on your tree shows that you have regrown a little pocket of our lost European Rainforest. Yes, the Earth holds memory, you can feel it at every ancient site. Bealtaine Cottage is a paradise.
I can feel the spirit of your garden through the video. You're such an inspiration, your content is always so uplifting. 🧚♂🐚🌍🪶
"AND WEEP", Bought me to tears . Well said Collette. 🦋🌼🐝🐞
Absolutely!!! For the last year I have been living in this dystopian world where a genocide and wars are happening and encouraged and the world doesn't care (or even worse, agrees with it). I am heart broken and angry also. Thank you for your honesty and love what you are creating at the cottage. Blessings to YOU! 💔
Well done Collette!!! I live in America & have felt this way for a long time, even lost friends bc of my opinion. Guess they weren't "friends" to begin with. Keep your beautiful energy bright with your surrounding beauty🥰🥰💖💖
Same has happened to me. 💙
BRAVO!! Yes, this rant was necessary. Yes, the people in power are like ruthless robots & are not 'for the people'. For years/decades I tired to understand; I worried, I cried and I got furious... Then, I realized that all I could really do was control what what was in my little world. My mental health improved & physical health improved & I made peace with myself. No, the governments didn't change & the economy didn't get better but I did. I didn't want to spend what few years I have left in turmoil over things I couldn't control. We must each find our joy, do what we can & that's really all we can do. Sending blessings from USA~
Profound words once again. Good on you for speaking the truth. Love from Australia xxx
Agree with you entirely. 😔
Collette, your rant is truth and thank you for being so brave to speak it. This video made me think of an Emily Dickinson poem:
If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain;
If I can ease one life the aching,
Or cool one pain,
Or help one fainting robin Unto his nest again,
I shall not live in vain.
That is beautiful!
I find that I actually really appreciate your rants, each and every time, and I have to admit you have added to the list (now, also at the top) that my husband and I have regarding all of the things going on, all over the world, that generate so much more pollution than our car or using a piece of oasis for a flower arrangement. People get so caught up in the little, ridiculously stupid stuff that have virtually no impact on our environment. Thank you for saying everything today and I appreciate your son's information, as well. Keep fighting the fight.
Truth telling is never a rant. It’s what this world needs in spades.
Thank you for speaking truth - we need to hear from the peacemakers, the artists, writers, gardeners, music makers and poets.
Hi Colette, Well said! Agree with you 100%, Blessings to you and little Patsy ❤❤
Thank you so much Colette , I am with you all the way. Love your spirit ❤️❤️🇨🇦
Aww so very true my friend ❤
It amazes me that people are so narrow minded and still they can't see the bigger picture. Xx
"And weep!!" Thank you. Truth well said. Thank you.
Bless You Colette❤ 100% agree ..💚
and the backdrop of woodland behind you is the embodiment of your words...one woman..3 acres... sending so much Love 🙏💚
exactly the way I feel too...Thank you for sincerely expressing yourself!!! I'm in
New Brunswick, Canada
The devastation is immense and heartbreaking. May love prevail soon and powerfully.
Well said Collette, people need to hear this truth, and we all need your bravery. Love you, keep well, keep fighting for our mother earth!!!!
You know how to express your feelings, Colette. With deep respect to you from Florida.
I’ll choose a hard truth over a gentle lie.
Every single time.~ Thank you for saying what needs to be said!
It’s all the same fight, Colette. Your rant on the military is completely in line with your support of Mother Earth. Power to the people and the planet. Thank you for using your platform in such a constructive manner.
☮️💙💧
Free Palestine. 🍉
So true..I can't believe that so many people don't realize what is going on..blessings to you..
Always will be cowards hiding behind their screens criticising … probably without any understanding of the truth. You keep doing what you are doing Colette and don’t lose any more sleep over the haters. Don’t give them the satisfaction of knowing how upset you are. You are an inspirational woman x
So true and they must have deleted their comments because I just can’t find them. Weird. I wanted to read the comments but they are gone. Cowards. So many dishonest people in the world, it’s essential we have truth tellers like Colette to expose the lies.
I pray for Peace Constantly! We Cannot turn Away, This is NOT OK ! Love to You and All xx
There’s no money to be made in peaceful World 😡
Amen 🇵🇸
@Amy-rb2ro it's the root of all evil,just creates strife.
@@planetissa4899 The Bible says ‘the LOVE of money is Evil’.
Exactly right! Anyone offended by this video is living under a rock...just saying. Colette, I very much appreciate what you're doing in Ireland, and I'm trying something similar, albeit on a much smaller plot of land over here in Tennessee in the USA. I started watching your channel not long after my mom passed away and you've given me great inspirations on continuing to plant and plant. Sending many hugs to you.
I had a nightmare that the 8 acres of trees beyond my back yard had been cut away. My only remaining comfort amid the many people killed by war and weather. It's overwhelming. Hold tight to your woodland Colette. Peace and Love from Maryland🌻
Cannot even imagine how painful that was/is. Even one tree cut down breaks my heart and you must have loved them so much. I hope you can plant more things to fight back in your own way. Hugs from the UK.❤ ❤❤❤
Hello from Cyprus 🇨🇾 Well said Colette ❤️ it is all consuming. There will be peace, but we have to create it. It certainly is our privilege to change things and to live in a more compassionate world. I concur 💋
Well said Colette. I am a pensioner in South Wales and I agree with you completely.
I agree with you 100%...Keep speaking thr truth. More people need to hear it!!!
Thank you for your clear and very true words about the complete insanity and hypocrisy of the modern human world! But there is the universe of nature , and this still makes me happy!
Well said. I hope the establishment doesn’t issue consequences for you and the channel because we need voices such as yours. Bless you 🙏
Thank you, Colette!!!!! Deep respect. Truly inspired.
Thank you Sister, we need people to speak out about this, perhaps then we may be left in peace to tend and marvel at all that Mother Earth has within her.❤
❤🎉👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏❤❤❤Thank you for being brave enough to voice the truth.
All of these leafy, blooming creatures know your voice, your very footsteps. The blessings and the gifts work both ways. They know your heart and you know theirs.... what a gift !!! Thank you for holding this much needed LOVE for our Mother. especially now.
Colette, you have a right to rant. We are with you 100 % . Hugs and love to Patsy and you ❤
I followed you more than a decade ago on Twitter because of your convictions and saw it demonstrated in your work at the cottage. I can't say I've known you personally, but I can say I've known you truly because this message is the same that caught my attention years ago
You hit the nail on the head, Colette. Thank goodness for people like you. You're an absolute diamond - keep going please. Diana. xx
Yes Collette!👏👏👏 As a young woman I lived at Greenham Common Womens Peace Camp 40 years ago, and 100% agree with every word you've said here. Too many simply turn away, don't want to see whats happening, while some of us weep at the brutality, destruction and utter madness we see happening on Mother Earth. ❤
Bless you - you inspired some of us over in the U.S. with Greenham Common!
@@cindyw7008 that is a wonderful comment, thank you!
Hi Carol, did you know Jean O'Rourke? She served a prison sentence for her civil disobedience at Greenham Common. She has passed away now, such a lovely lady 💗
@@louisemartin7728 Hi Louise, no I didn't know her. I remember the day we Embraced the Base in 1982, around 30,000 women were there, and the following day many,many women were arrested for civil disobedience. It was a terrible sight to see so many peaceful women carted off. I still have all my photographs taken on that particular day, as well as others over the time period I stayed there.
It's always an education listening to you. Don't stop being passionate/ angry. We need people to be saying this and to care. Thanks xx
Thank you for saying this, Collette! ❤
If everyone were awake as you Colette the world Will be a better place.I agree with all you say❤
Facts!!! 📣
This video makes me love you even more Collette! ❤🌳🍀☺️
Thank you for defending Gaza and talking about what they're doing in the middle east. You're an amazing woman.
I totally agree with your rant, 100% And although I am constantly shocked by politicians I think I am even more shocked by the lack of real investigative journalism whose job it should be to expose the liars and hypocrites for what they are.
There are some excellent journalists - online : See Chris Hedges, Owen Jones, Novara Media, Declassified UK, The Grayzone etc. but the deeper you look, the more overwhelming it becomes.....
Perfectly said Collette. Blunt and to the point. You give me courage to speak my truth. Just be you, and don't ever stop.❤
Well said Colette! Totally agree. Too many people have their heads buried deeply in the sand! I wish more people would wake up to the reality of what is actually going on, instead of getting caught up in the deliberate distractions being doled out!
Well done, Colette. We need to hear these things. I saw the movie Lee yesterday. True story about the WW11 photographer Lee Miller and the horrors she saw. I left the cinema feeling sad and angry that we haven't learnt anything yet. Keep doing what you do 🙌✨️👏💕
It's a privilege to hear you speak out about how this complete and utter disgrace is allowed to continue. Thank you ❤
Blessings to all.
As we say here in NW Georgia (USA) "Preach it, sister"!👍👏👏👏
Well said! Merci...
I'm listening your video for you and I believe in what you do.
Now I feel less alone...
Brings many tears and sadness. Yes the earth and the people should be loved. There is so many with no home no food . Prayers to all. 🙏
Well said. We need more to speak up like this.
Bravo!!! You are so right about what's really going on, and people need to wake up and know about it. What I LOVE is that your life, the work you've done, the planting of a paradise sings out with practical solutions to the frustrations we feel in our lives. We can all make a difference no matter where we live in the world and what's going on politically and culturally. Thank you for speaking up and Blessings to you and Patsy!
Well said dear Colette!! Congrats for this MARVELLOUS rant!! you know what?... I definitely love your rants because they are full of meaning and emotion, and of course, of wisdom and experience, you dont talk "by the book" you talk trough experience, and that is very much encouraging. BIG THANK YOU. and big hug from Buenos Aires
Absolutely right.
I've just come back from Lebanon because my son married a lebanese girl last Sunday.
None of our guests went, only my husband and myself.
I never saw a bomb or fighting but the country is so run down by constant wars.
It's a really beautiful place but full of rubbish everywhere because there is no infrastructure to provide services for the people.
As you say, the world could be beautiful for everyone if we had government's who cared but they care for their own power and global control.
As for plastic, just look at plastic bags. They still use them but now we pay for them.
I will never mention these things here again and spoil your beautiful channel which has helped me so much through bad times.
God bless you Colette.❤
🙌 well said! Finally someone’s saying it! 💜☀️🌙✨
I feel exactly the same way, Colette. The left wing and the right wing are attached to the same bird. Sending you love and thanks for your sharing.
Totally agree Colette. Blessings to you
So true, so so very true!!!. I really do hope that the troubles around the world do not spread for the sake of all our sons and daughters no matter which country, what religion or culture we all come from. Great power comes from the human race working together as one, not hating and fighting one another and causing destruction around the world in the process of doing so !!!!!!! I send my love out to you all, and especially to the poor people who are now experiencing conflict in their country, please may there be peace soon xx
Absolutely beautiful 😊
I would live outside in your garden 🦋
Move over, i’m coming, too!😊
Thank you Colette for airing what so many feel. It is truly incomprehensible what we have all been witnessing and how it is presented as if there is anything legitimate about it all. I will always have hope though for what you said , peace on earth . Your oak tree is magical and I love what you said about the earth holding the memory of those great oak trees.
You have done beautiful work on your land!
_I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own._ - Andy Warhol
You are right, its all too much. I feel sad about the wars too.
Yes,yes,yes Colette! Go girl bang on with this 100%👏👏👏🙌🏼❤
Just remember Collette you have contributed more to the planet in the last 20 years than any po.itician.❤❤ Its people like you that are getting me through.When I speak to friends they all say they are so depressed by our so called leaders.
I live in West Sussex UK while out shopping in our Cathedral city of Chichester a homeless man was asleep in the middle of the pavement while people rushed by him.We are loosing our humanity😢 so thank God for the beauty you present me.Much love and blessings to you❤❤❤
Thank you Colette ❤❤❤
I never ever comment on your or any site untill today. I agree wholeheartedly with your rant today. Well done Collette you have spoken for me my views exactly. Sending love to you and patsy xx
More people are saying it as it is and not what we think people should hear,time to speak our truth.😊❤️
I TOTALLY 100% AGREE WITH YOU COLETTE ON EVERYTHING!!! I fuming over silly stupid comments that are utterly stupid!!!! Maureen Liverpool xxx
We’ll said!!!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Just ignore the IGNORANT ones!!!
We love your cottage and what you have accomplished in twenty years!
Im here again in the middle of the night came to check in on the comments. I am amazed not one negative comment! Wow at last people have woken up if we are a macro of the collective that's good news. A year ago I posted in support of Gaza on your comments feed and I did not get one like other than you Collette. Now look, it's a v good sign. Not sure what we are all going to do about it, but at least I feel a bit less alone now. We must have faith that some we can free ourselves from this situation.. I have hope but I don't think a new gov is the answer.
Thank you for your utmost relevant and important rant....I for one will raise my voice even louder because this HAS to be addressed and brought to the public's conscience ❤🕊 God Bless 🙏