Free Stock photo Hilaire Belloc is especially known for his "Cautionary tales for children". He was born in 1870 to a French father and British mother and his biography is quite interesting to read, even though I secretly harbour rather negative feelings for him. The reason being that I suffered considerably in childhood because of one of his rather humorous, but truly brutal cautionary poems, called, "Matilda, little liar." One of my primary school teachers thought it fit to include this poem in our English literature curriculum and the outcome was that, children being what they are, I not only became, Waltzing Matilda, but also, Little Liar. To this day, I cannot fathom what this person was thinking when she chose that poem as I was the type of learner that every teacher wish they had classrooms full of: obedient, quiet, intelligent and extremely hardworking. I would like to add honest to this list, but that might be protesting too much. Then, one day, not...
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.