Wakkerstroom Old Bioscope: Photograph by Owen Castleman Cet animal est tres mechant; Quand on l'attaque il se defend. (This animal is very malicious; when attacked it defends itself.) - La Menagerie (Traditional French song) ~ o ~ Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love. - Rainer Maria Rilke ~ o ~ When we can see the image of God where we don’t want to see the image of God, then we see with eyes not our own. - Richard Rohr ~ o ~ Wakkerstroom Music Festival 2017 is something of the past. For about 4 days opera arias, cello, piano, violin, flute, jazz and French horn could be heard from any suitable fac
The Restory is a Retreat Centre nestled against Tafelkop, a singular mountain head near Wakkerstroom, South Africa. Here we live a simple life as contemplatives. It is a place of re-connection: with ourselves, people, Nature, Silence and Creativity. Our retreats are aimed at this. Our conversations, writing and art centre around the univocity of life. We need a place that reminds us that we are all one. The Restory hopes to be such a place and space.