The Restory Retreat Centre

  Simple Living "...give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with the food that I need, or I shall be full, and deny you,  and say, “Who is the Lord?” or I shall be poor, and steal,  and profane the name of my God. ‭‭                                                                                                                Proverbs 30:8-9‬ ‭ The Conversation  Elements From The Conversation Music We send our love and wish for you a simple life.  George & Matilda 

Photograph by George Angus When we moved to Barrowfield last year, we did so with too much stuff (See Matilda’s post Moving heavily ). There were mitigating circumstances as we stated before: it was years of living, by four different people and in different locations coming together – Matilda, me, Oupa Frans and my dad. There were two workshops, one pottery studio and four houses with all the tools and possessions associated with each. Add to that my father’s reluctance to move and our efforts to take into account that his belongings acted as a security blanket and all could not simply be taken away from him and you end up with all that arrived in Wakkerstroom and here on the farm at Barrowfield. And that despite everything that has indeed been sorted, discarded or sold. Too much. That is not the way we want to live. There is a dissonance between our possessions and our spirituality. We want to travel much, much lighter. Gradually things have settled in these past few ...