Foxtrot Fields-Horses Healing Heart and Namaste Goats

03/19/2026

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02/28/2026

You’re Invited to a Special Spring Celebration!

Join us at the DSC on Palm Sunday, March 29, for a joyful Spring Celebration Open Day!

From 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., come spend time with our donkeys, enjoy the fresh spring air, and celebrate the season of renewal with us. It’s the perfect opportunity to connect with the donkeys, learn more about their care, and experience the peaceful beauty of the Sanctuary as winter gives way to spring.

Visit the website to purchase your tickets:
https://www.thedonkeysanctuary.ca/special-open-days/

Use promo code PALM at checkout to receive 25% off your tickets for this special day!

Whether you’re visiting for the first time or returning to see familiar long-eared friends, we can’t wait to welcome you.

Bring your family, bring your friends, and celebrate spring with the donkeys!

02/26/2026

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02/17/2026

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🐐⚔️ GOATS OF THE GODS — Week 3 ⚔️🐐
The Animal That Kept Vikings Alive Before goats fed Valhalla in legend… they fed families in real life. In the harsh lands of Scandinavia:
• Goats survived rocky cliffs where cattle failed
• They ate brush, bark, and scrub
• They gave milk, meat, hides, fiber
• They reproduced reliably
• They required less feed than cows In a land of long winters and thin soil, goats weren’t luxury. They were insurance. That’s why they appear in myth as sacred, renewable, unstoppable. Because in real life — they were. Legends don’t rise from nothing. They rise from what keeps people alive.
👇 If you lived in Viking-age … would you choose cattle or goats?

02/14/2026

02/14/2026

There is a lovely idea in the Celtic tradition that if you send out goodness from yourself, or if you share that which is happy or good within you, it will all come back to you multiplied ten thousand times. In the kingdom of love there is no competition, there is no possessiveness or control. The more love you give away, the more love you will have.

JOHN O'DONOHUE

Excerpt from the book, Anam Cara,
25th Anniversary Edition.
Ordering Info: https://johnodonohue.com/anam-cara

Dromoland Castle Garden Roses
County Clare, Ireland
Photo: © Ann Cahill

02/10/2026

Birds loving false spring ❤️

01/03/2026

John O'Donohue
January 1, 1956 - January 4, 2008

By Pat O'Donohue
(John's brother, on behalf of the O'Donohue family)

On this 18th anniversary of John O'Donohue's death, we give thanks for the wonderful gift his life was and still is for us. We take solace in his beautifully crafted wisdom, 'May you know that absence is alive with hidden presence, that nothing is ever lost or forgotten.’

John spoke so beautifully about the notion of our lives being a life-long refining of the art of approach towards our own unique, individual mystery and to the Divine. He defined the kidnapped and abandoned word ‘reverence’ as the awakening of a sense of respect for the mystery. He would say, 'Reverence is respect before the Mystery.’

John sculpted a new language of exploration to seduce us back into the presence of the questions awakening within us; he loved to sit with a question and let it unfold within him. He believed many of humanity's problems stemmed from the fact that we find it so difficult to sit alone in a room filled with silence. This calls for the forming of new habits to stop the flow of useless, noisy chatter constantly filling our minds which distracts and exhausts our thinking. John loved to speak with passion and originality about, ‘The creation of a beautiful mind.’ He kept such a beautifully furnished mind himself and loved to seek out old, anonymous bookstores where he unearthed a treasure of reading. In his books, Beauty: The Invisible Embrace / Divine Beauty, we see the line, 'Beauty shuns the garish places.’ When we beautify our own gaze, we can behold the beauty in the ‘other’ and feel its kiss on our skin.

Now it is so wonderful to see how John’s steps on this earth have not faded but echo and resonate through the healing and minding words from the legacy he has left us. ‘Yet the world is not decided by action alone. It is decided more by consciousness and spirit; they are the secret sources of all action and behavior. The spirit of a time is an incredibly subtle, yet hugely powerful force. And it is comprised of the mentality and spirit of all individuals together. Therefore, the way you look at things is not simply a private matter. Your outlook actually and concretely affects what goes on.’ (Benedictus / To Bless the Space Between Us)

As we meditate on the layered wisdom and healing within John O'Donohue's words and vision, may we each consider how our own outlook can offer solace to others in our wounded world.

Le chuile beannacht agus buiochas,
(With every blessing and gratitude)

Pat O'Donohue

https://www.johnodonohue.com/