The Restory Retreat Centre

There is just something about the sky here.... I share Mark Woodward's awe, even though we're from different parts of the world. So Much Bigger Than You Somewhere in flatter-than-flat western Kansas, a patch of sky blue  next to the edge of a golden orange-to-red cloud  reflecting the setting sun is just so beautiful that you want to pause,  hold your breath,  soak it in all in, but it is so much bigger than you,  you can’t take it all in, so you finally let go,  and breathe. And be with it. Photograph by Frans Marais Photograph by George Angus Photograph by George Angus Photograph by George Angus Photograph by George Angus Photograph by George Angus Photograph by George Angus Photograph by George Angus Photograph by George Angus Photograph by George Angus George

Note: Matilda and I attended our first Living School Symposium from 24 - 26 August in Albuquerque, New Mexico. It was the official beginning of our 2 year program at the Center for Action and Contemplation's Living School. We arrived back in SA on Wednesday evening but were so tired and disoriented after our 40 hour return journey that we had to stay over in Johannesburg for a day before undertaking the 4 hour trip back home. On Friday night we finally arrived back here in the Balele mountains. It is all so much - the whole process, our marathon trips, America, the people, our peer group where most of our work and study will be done, the Symposium. I am filled to the brim and do not know what to do with it. I would love to dump it all in one go onto everyone asking, "And so,how was it?" I just can't. Just as it is impossible to pass Table Mountain through a funnel down a little bird's throat. And besides, as Richard Rohr said at the symposium, ...